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Thanks for the music in Madison, WI tonight. Wonderful to hear your voice & your words. (And the duet with kd a true treat)
Hello Jane, looking at my tweets this morning and discovered you are touring with KD. My partner and I are thrilled to be able to see you in Lawrence! I’ve been a fan since One More Colour.
Hope to see you in the crowd near row Q : )
YEA!
just listened to that brilliant/fun/delightful dog tune o’ yours. how many years since i first heard it and got the CD and then saw you coincidentally going to that cheap flic movie theatre on Roncevalles…anyway out here in N.S. tunes are pouring out o’ me and i thought you’d enjoy …and maybe wanna cover my heartfelt dog tune inpsired by my sister’s pooch Monki… all the best http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK-QlndjZDs
HI Jane,
I just saw you (caught me completely by surprise) in Thunder Bay with KD Lang last night. You came and sat out in the auditorium after and I wanted to say hi and thanks but you were gone before the show ended.
Wanted to say:
Your comment that this part of the world, this landscape is so subtle in it’s beauty and that it’s subtlety is it’s sublimity (think i got that right?) — made me catch my breath b/c it’s so right. I’m from here, spent many years away, and want you to know that whenever I hear / heard “bound by the beauty” it always put me in the place of feeling the evening winter sky here in NW Ontario. Subtle and sublime. So thank you for that.
Also: When I was a Boy — my favourite album ever, period. For its creativity, emotional intensity and above all, beautiful and captivating music. Thanks for it.
Hi Jane, my partner got tickets for kd lang’s concert in September at Pantages Playhouse in Wpg. Just wondered if you would be opening for her on that date? We would love to hear the two of you duetting on “Calling All Angels”. Also, any chance of a dvd compilation of your video work since the beginning of your career becoming available? Always loved your visual creativity as well.
Thoroughly enjoyed your singing last night in Thunder Bay. Love the power and complexity of your voice. Your duet with kd lang brought me to tears. Really looking forward to when you return in June for our Thunder Pride and your performance at Pride in The Park.
Also… do you know where people can purchase “Anytime”?
Jen
Thank you Jane for coming to the West End Cultural Centre in Winnipeg last night! Thoroughly enjoyed your show as did my partner-his first time seeing and hearing you. Looking forward to listening to “With What Shall Keep Me Warm?”. Best Wishes!
Hope you are doing well…..
Things great ! In Melrose.
I’m sitting on the porch
Listening to the birds and the breeze
As it blows and dances through the trees
A small lymric from this illusion
Full of beauty
And some now and again confusion
I was listening to the coffee
House and thought of you
……you know on SIRIUS
Radio…….
Jennifer and Becky out of
Town….
The line
About ….,,
I pick up the phone
Then I don’t
Beautiful
Thanks again for
Your beautiful evening
At Mitchel and Marys
And it was nice speaking
With you at the dinner table
Hope one day
To see you again
Thanks
Eddie
Is it true you’re coming to Winnipeg?
oh my gosh, yes! sunday may 6th! i hope you can come. i have to count on the universe to let people find me, since villages are so large that the grapevine doesn’t work as well. so you got the message. good!
Crazy day…came home…. it followed me…. I locked the door and shut the windows and it still found its way in. The Crazy Day would not give up. The phone rang and I answered it…. it found it
s way in again…. I got smart, I settled in for the night, put on my headphones and prompted the cold glass to play, “Above The Tree Line”…. and I instantly felt in a good place.
—–Thank you Jane—-
ps— How about you put a laser show (planetarium style) and call it Laser Jane!!!! It would be a hit!!!!
like the way you say things! and glad.
Hi Jane,
I was feeling nostalgic and posted a video of Map of the World II on my blog. Saw you in concert in the band shell at Waterloo Park in the mid eighties. I loved your little accordion.
Hi Jane
Just purchased {i]When I was a Boy[/i] Glad it’s got the lyrics included.
Look forward to listenng to it
Cheers
Mind if I record a performance?
use your best judgement in all ways. it is fine with me.
I shall, thanks.
Hi Jane
Looking forward into playing “calling all Angels” in a ceremony for a special friend who has recently passed away. Wondering where I could find sheet music for this song. I play tenor saxophone. Thanks.
http://www.janesiberry.com/sheet-music-lyrics/
Hi Jane, my brother Donald was asking me if I knew one of your songs called “Walking in the Shadow of Blackbirds” and the only thing I can think of that mentions the blackbirds is “The Valley” from Bound. Do you have any other songs that mention shadows and blackbirds?
Thanks, and wishing you’d come to Edmonton. Also thought of organizing a salon show… hmmmm
: )
yes, but i think the valley is the one.
Hello Jane
Hope this finds you well and happy…… Had to tell you of what has just happened!!!
In work at the moment (night shift at local hospital) I always have your beautiful voice accompanying my work and comforting those who hear you whilst I am here.
Your song ‘calling all angels’ has just come to an end and right on cue – a white feather has just dropped in on us….. How fantastic an affirmation, that they are really listening when we call.
Thank you Jane …… you are a true blessing to us – love love to you always – love is everything x
a white feather. you don’t explain but we don’t need one.
Where are you Janee
Vibe la vita loca
Ricky Ricky
Que Bueno
Jane
Eddie Ray
Bruce e
B K
Over
Dear Jane,
I just received (Purchased) your first recording “Jane Siberry” not knowing that it even existed before “No Borders Here” until last week. I am absolutely stunned by the beauty and genius of it. It is a masterpiece as worthy as all of your other great recordings. I must impart to you my Gratitude and deepest love to you for all the years of tangible, life fulfilling Joy that your music has brought me.
Warmly and respectfully,
Matthew Weinman
how wonderful to hear that. i forget how precious each recording has been to me. thanks for reminding me.
Will you be touring with KD Lang when she comes to Newport, Rhode Island August 17? I would love to hear you in concert. I am from Rhode Island, USA. So far I have traveled to Canada twice to see Jann Arden as I am a good friend of hers. I am a retired RN in the states, and my husband is a Lung Cancer survivor.
My funny story is that I saved a 102 year patient from falling out of bed and I ended up hurting my knees for life but I am okay. The thing is that he ended up dying two weeks later anyway. I had so many surgeries on these knees, the last one will be by a robotic to replace them…thats not now…i still have life to enjoy.!!
I am on Facebook and i joined your page. (LouiseMarie)..love, louise
Great to see your paintings, (I like the ones with the tadpoles.) Good luck!
Can we entice you back to the UK for some shows?
Thanks for the music, the invention, the emotion, the truths, the observations and the playfulness over the years.
yes. love to.
I was just thinking, I haven’t seen Jane Siberry in concert in years. And then I got this email from the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. You are performing with kd lang. The Concert of Double Happiness! Thank you.
Awesome! You’ll be in Pensacola.
I willed you here. You had no control…hehe
Looking forward to seeing both you and K.d
a siberry ‘salon’ is being held the night after the show with kd so check that out, too, on my tour page here.
i know you did. the wind changed in such a way.
there is this great spell caster on the internet i just met through a friends description and he have just helped me to get back my lover i am so glad that i met with him he is just on the internet to help people and i am among those he have helped and i am telling you to also go and get hold of your own solution as he shall soon be living the internet he said he was sent on a mission to the internet to come and help people and to make those who are at a cross road be back to life just met him with your problems and consider it a solution. his email vovolaspellcast@yahoo.com
Hi Jane, Just want to say Thank you for the many years of joy your music has brought myself and others. Looking forward to seeing you on May 6/2012 at the West End Cultural Centre in Winnipeg, MB. I have managed to see you 3 times before here in Winnipeg, and can’t wait to see you again. I think the last time I saw you was at the West End in 1997 or 98. Just curious, do you still keep in contact with Corey Hart? I know you appeared on his album Attitude and Virtue, and he’s a huge fan of yours. My love and respect, XO
yes, corey and i stay in touch from afar. and sometimes from aclose.
Oh my goodness Jane! Thank you so much to you and sheeba for keeping me connected. Over more than 25 years I have loved your contribution to the world! I so appreciated the opportunity, at your salon performed for the somnulent South Australian outback community of Mount Bryan in March 2010, to meet you in person again. At an earlier performance during the Adelaide Cabaret Festival of 2008 (?), you invited the audience to contribute three words. Without hesitation I shouted out, “YOU’RE SO WELCOME!” which is technically four words, but you forgave me. ‘Coz you knew I meant it.
At Mount Bryan I told you how excited and enthralled I was at k.d.lang’s performance of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” at the recently completed Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. And now I read of your forthcoming tour with k.d. How bloody wonderful. As I type this, I’m listening to k.d.’s rendering of “The Air that I Breathe” from her 1997 “Drag” album. Bless you Jane. Hope it goes with passion. Cheers Rick <>
mount bryan, what a strange and interesting night that was. hey again. thanks for reminding me.
Hello (bore da) lovely Jane
Just wanted to say the above and let you know you are in my thoughts…. All good wishes are wending their way to you from here in Wales… How wonderful that you will be performing alongside kd – really would love to have been able to come along too, as you both are my all time favorite and most talented artists…. love love love to you both – and hoping, perhaps, that there may be some film footage after the tour??? Please stay safe and happy, Jane – you are such a special gift to us all…… thanks for all the beauty you give.
I’ve been looking for your debut album for the longest time. And it was right here the whole time. Love it
Greetings & Salutations from Vancouver, BC !!
Jane, will you be opening up for k.d. Lang on her 3 sold-outs shows here in Vancouver, on July 4, 7 & 8 @ the Commodore Ballroom ?
won’t be at those shows.
Jane, I am very much enjoying your adventures on your Facebook page! Thanks. Just returned from SW FL and my family had many wonderful encounters with Nature there. Have a nice Easter.
thanks, jane.
i was sold and u of oregon emu ballroom in about 87?.
i do not listen to you everyday, nor others. depends.
is there any wonder i’m listening now as i write.
again, thanks.
Hi Jane,
Can you tell me when you wrote “Barkis” (specifically for LIPS?) and if you had been reading “David Copperfield” at the time? Maybe you read it for high school English class. I prefer to imagine that your father read it to you bit by bit when you were a child. I love this song so much.
I can’t find your song The Taxi Ride from the ending of the movie The Gymnast, I think it’s a beautiful song.
Such a great song.
It’s on her second? CD– the last song on it. “The Speckless Sky” Is great all around and I highly recommend getting the whole thing.
Very cool. Thank you. Have you seen the movie the gymnast, it’s pretty good.
‘no borders here’ cd at janesiberry.com as download and still some cd copies around. thank you.
Thank you. I will check it out. I wish I could find it so i can download it to my phone. I have an MP3 player as an option to.
please send your email and i will send you the single song.
Jane thank you for the beautifull song ” Calling all Angels” what inspired you to do this song? I use it quite alot in my life, ever since my Son passed away. I truly believe a gift was sent to your most inner being to have you sing this song, even if you didn’t write it, or did you? Either way your a beautifull artist. I wish i could bring you into my life to sing for my loved ones that song, ( thier brother whom passed would love this song, as i have if he were here with us today.) God bless and keep you safe. Angie May
hi Jane,
I was feeling the scar on my forehead tonite, and decided it was time for a visit. My scar is from my good friend Eric’s hockey stick- i was seven years old and now I’m 50, with a nice scar still! I used my rubber boots as goal posts and never learned to skate backwards because the pond was round. My scar, on the right side of my head helped me learn left from right when I was little, and I expect as I age, I’ll go back to using it to remind me left from right. or not. I am still friends with Eric; he is gentler now.
I’m enjoying the new album! I’m enjoying the old albums. The baby feel asleep to HUSH this afternoon. I appreciate your music so much, like your voice and magic has been present, the company of so many parts of my life and its passages.
We look forward to seeing you in eastern canada when the winds bring you closer this way again!
thank you and peace, sandy
Re: the Eminent Mr. Fairbrother’s succinct critique: I dunno, I’ve always liked loons. They have lovely voices. And in Canada, they’re right on the money. (If I recall correctly, fucking is usually quite nice too.)
So I’m trying to scheme up a grand salon for the DC area for the end of the kdl tour, and I’m working from behind a firewall that won’t let me use rerouted web addresses. I’m seeing from Ms. S’s twitter feed that salon details & parameters (which I don’t see on this website) are at http://t.co/L3nz7ECg…can anyone translate that for me?
Much obliged,
Manko
Hello Jane:
I was serious about that poem thing I wrote in recently. Am I breaking copyright by using the same title in a publication. Just wanted to know. The poem is called Mimi On the Beach. It is being published in Edinburgh in late April. Please advise.
YES, use without any worries. you CANNOT copyright a title. thank god. the fallout from the heavens should be a language we can all use. my use of ‘mimi’ came out of the first line of poem i was writing – ‘that’s me on the beach’ looking at photos.
Hello Jane:
I was serious about that poem thing I wrote in recently. Am I breaking copyright by using the same title in a publication. Just wanted to know. The poem is called Mimi On the Beach. It is being published in Edinburgh in late April. Please advise.
Once again your sweet and poignant music touches us and comforts us… listening again to When I Was a Boy… it is all about the love.. the love that is the nature and fabric of all that IS. Thank you for your music, Jane… much love to you…
You’re a fucking loon.
And you are not nice. The music is wonderful and is transcendent. Yes, Jane/Issa is unusual but that is not bad. In fact, in the world as it is, it is a positive thing. Listen, appreciae, and if you don’t like it then listen to something else and don’t be insulting. It doesn’t show you in a good light.
Who knows…perhaps Jane will not find it offensive.
No you are!
Hi Jane
Love your songs!
Have you been to New Zealand?
We could do with a visit.
Dear Jane,
I find myself popping here every week or so to ‘setterspell’. Its a comfortable place to be. As someone who never cries, your stories help me to feel forgotten things, that I can’t name, that are lovely. I love ‘The Lobby’, ‘When last I was a Fisherman’, ‘Grace Hospital’ and ‘In the Beginning’. Not only those, it changes, I am still developing my taste for your music.
So, thank you for the delights you have created, your courage and your generosity.
With appreciation,
Chris
I am listening to The Walking again…for the first time =) My current path is to notice and to name. I find you do that extremely well! I notice that Lena is not the only White Table in the room…. Thank you for your gentle spirit…your creativity and your skill in painting pictures with your words and your music. Connecting with your music is powerful and healing. You pull for me and I’ll pull for you…
Here I was, right in the middle of trying to design a particularly difficult piece of high-end furniture, and, *boing* (sfx), there you were in my mind….almost as an reminder to “do-things-differently”. Within minutes I had a very bizarre and wonderful result. I thank you for your indirect direction from the past. I knew you when you were just starting out. I was a short, cane-using, beret-wearing DJ from CKOC in Hamilton, and we became good acquaintances (not quite friends). I followed your career from afar and loved it all. You were always an example of innovation and sweetness.
Just called to say thankyou to you for being you,
-ray-
contact_us@kitlani.ca
Cheers from Finland. I’ve loved your music for some 20 years now (When I was a boy was the first album I bought). But the biggest impact still has been the wonderful album The Walking. I rate it among the top-10 ever. Thx.
Hi Jane,
It’s really great to find your web presence, and I’ll keep an eye on this to find out when your next tour begins. A silly story, but I was lucky enough to interview you many moons ago when you performed in North Bay. A friend of mine gave me a poster of you to have signed for him. But I made the mistake of setting it down during our conversation, and when I turned around, it was gone. I never forgave myself for letting him down like that, and I’ve made it my goal to one day get another opportunity to get your autograph for him.
That aside, I’ve always loved your unique style – and I hope you never stop making and sharing the beautiful music you do.
What a thrill to see you in my guestbook! The wind often blows in such nice things. Glad you liked the alligator. Love all the music you’re doing as usual. I’m reading Treasure Island– it’s so good! Lots of great ship language in there even though I don’t really understand it knowing nothing about sailing. Somehow just made me think of your Fisherman song though.
Thank you for all you do. Aimee
what fishing language? i’d love to hear.
boatswain, coxswain, luff, lubber, weevil, leeside (I don’t know if that one’s right)– such great words!
you know how you said i cant lose this heaviness, well i cant lose this heaviness
would you feel comfortable saying more? maybe there is information someone has that may lighten.
Listening to the radio this morning, Bound by the Beauty jumped straight into my heart…I’ve heard it for years, but suddenly had to have it in me so I went googling… I’m so delighted to find this page, to find the sheet music… a gift! Thank you for your generosity. I have a novice choir… I’m dedicated to bringing singing back into people’s daily lives and hearts, and I thought I might be able to do a simple arrangement. At the very least, I’ll memorize the words and recite them in our quiet moments at the end of the practice. There are two other beautiful songs about beauty on http://songsforthegreatturning.net/ This site is another generous sharing of part songs for amateur groups.
I also printed Love is Everything and cried while I played and sang… Namaste Jane. Thank you.
Excellent to see you are still living in the colors of the wind.
Hi Jane
This is Don Wilhelm here in calgary
In the mid 80’s I played drums for a band called the slip we were playing a club in Winnipeg
That same week you were also playing in the city and after the show you were interviewed on cbc’s late radio show Night Lines at which point you learned that a club band in the city was covering one of your songs “I muse aloud” it was reported that you commented “nobody covers my songs” so on the way to your next show you stoped in at the club we were playing and we opened the next set with I muse aloud. I don’t think we did the song justice but your backup singers were gracious enough to join us on stage and when you came up near the end of the song it was a big thrill for the whole band all of us being big fans of your music
I still tell that story with great fondness today
I think you and pam betts our singer became friends later when we moved to Toronto
Any whoo I found this page and thought I would say hi and thank you for all the wonderful music
Don
What makes you laugh Jane? I am a silver parent, I waited until I was ready and my children were ready for me.
I was in a fish and chip shop full of people recently with Isaac my 4 years old son. After several reprimands for his behaviour (running around, turning signs round, banging on the counter and stuff that brings joy to a wilful 4yo) I warned him that he was going to be taken straight home. At the top of his voice his announced “I’m going to look at your penis”.
Thank you for enriching my life with your creation Jane, I hope this brought a smile as a small repayment. C
Oh goodness, I’m delighted to see a web presence!
Every time I hear “The Sky is So Blue” I am overwhelmed with joy. Crying, screaming, laughing, running, jumping, singing joy. My husband has this super-compressed collection of songs gleaned from his college days when he was folk and alternative music director at his college radio station, and that’s where I found it. I would like to purchase it, but I have never been able to find it, or even what album it was on. I don’t suppose you could give me a push in the right direction? I’ve sorted through the things available through CDbaby/Amazon/iTunes with no luck.
hello sarah. you have come to the right place! ‘the sky is so blue’ is on my first recording ‘jane siberry’. it is downloadable here at my website on the music page where it says mp3s. i don’t have single songs – only full cds. please let me know you were able to get it. or if you send me your email, i will send you just the song. js
Definately one of my favourites too….lala lala lala!
During the 80′s I was able to watch Canada’s MuchMusic. I saw Ingrid and the Footman and have loved your music ever since. Thank you for your work and for the way your music makes me feel.
Jeff
: )) xo
It’s been so long, Jane, since I’ve been able to take in a performance. Miss your work like crazy! It remains the most inspired, inspiring music I know. Be well. Come forth. Looking forward.
: )
I remember seeing you back at Seneca College, freshman day… the electricity went off partially for the stage and you played the bridge (?) for Mimi on the beach for about 20 minutes. Best concert I ever saw!!! At 20. LOL
See you soon, hopefully.
Dear Jane Siberry,
I am a 22 year old college student in Southern Idaho, and I love your music. I also wanted to be a singer for a very long time…I sang your song calling all angels (made it into my own) and posted it on YouTube a while ago. However I wasn’t aware of copyright laws, and cannot connect to that account anymore to take it down. I have been trying to contact you to get permission to put this song onto the world wide web and this is the only venue that I have found where people can contact you. I wanted you to know that getting permission to perform your song is really important to me, even though I am still figuring out how to take it down. Here is the video if you would like to view it, it is no where near your caliber of musicianship or vocal quality and I changed it to fit my voice, however you should know how your music is being represented by the world wide web! Thank you for your voice and your talent!
you have my permission, jessica, but i don’t own the publishing rights for the song therefore universal music publishing just does a blanket sweep for anything they own. if you can put it up again and give it a different name in some slight way perhaps that will work. this is where i feel strongly re: ownership, but it was I who signed the contract with them. i wish you all the best with your music, your voice, your journey.
Jane, in 2002 you supplied me with a free copy of “Calling All Angels” to play at my late wife’s memorial service. I want to thank you ,again, as it was her wish to have that wonderful music played and you were the angel for her then.
Ten years ago. I hope you have peace in your heart now, though it must have been very difficult to go through that with her. love, jane
Hi Jane. Glad to know that you’re still ever-present and risking and embracing every performance opportunity to serve and give of yourself. I am aware that the last decade or so has been filled with essential transformation for you- not that you ever stopped evolving.
If you should have happened to have forgotten me (too many ‘haves’ in this sentence?), I got up on stage at Hugh’s Room to play Bound By The Beauty with your red guitar in 2002. You gave me 3 little lambs that night. I was so fulfilled, but felt that I took too much from you… you were still very giving and I appreciated that. I’m sorry if I overstepped that boundary.
Wanted to share a little something: On When I Was A Boy, At the Beginning of Time: there’s a place when a male voice asks: “now?”, as if he were asking God if it were okay for him to leave or begin the world (6:22-6:26), and the answer is “no” or “now”. I had an experience, early on, in which the voice eventually responded “yes” in the silence that followed. I will never forget the liberation of receiving permission to let go of tension and fear that had stored themselves for so many years in my body.
I send you love and release. Blessings and peace everywhere you go.
Yvon Loiselle, Edmonton
that is the magic of music and why we love it as we do. that is a beautiful story.
Hi Jane , I love ur voice and ur music , I’m trying to find your albums for free because I don’t have a credit card yet where I live , god bless u
… but there’s water nearby …
Message from a longtime fan: I love Jane Siberry music!
I lost my father just over a year ago and my mother is in the final stages of cancer. Each Friday I drive four hours down to Windsor to spend time with her. Every moment is a gift but it’s still very difficult. On Sunday evenings driving back to Toronto I listen to When I Was A Boy. There are no words to how important that CD has become to me. It sustains me like nothing else can. Jane is a musician, an artist, a healer.
i feel for you, larry. as more of us are learning, it is an excruciatingly special time when someone is making their way out of their body and ahead of us.
Thank you for sharing your music. I had already bought some on iTunes and I appreciate that I could get another album too from this site. You and your voice are most beautiful. I love the fan poem to you that was posted.
you’re welcome and i hope the music is a good companion.
The sign of a true and great songwriter is the ability to get right inside the listeners’ body. You, Jane, have always been able to do that with me, since the first time I heard Mimi On The Beach. I never quite knew what it was that resonated with me so much, or why I instantly grabbed on to your voice and held on all these years, until ‘Calling All Angels’. That was my lightbulb moment. There was a real life angel singing to me. Years later(which was two years ago), after you released that song, I was diagnosed with cancer twice in less than two years. I have never had a real belief in any organized religion. I was raised Catholic, but opted out when I became an adult. I do, however, have a strong belief in spirituality and the Universe. I cannot express in words where that song still takes me every single time I hear it. As a singer, myself, I have tried many a time to sing it, but cannot. The overwhelming emotion that it brings out of me is cathartic. The comfort and strength it gives me is very empowering. Only a remarkable singer/songwriter can do that, and for that I am forever grateful for you.
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Oh, I also wanted to add how I came upon the single of ‘Calling All Angels”… My sister and I were driving up to our Grandparents’ house in Minden and were on Highway 45(Monck Road) and finally decided to stop at the quaint little shoppe with the Betty Boop out front. I was looking around and found a collection of your cds. I asked the gentleman there if there was some sort of relation and he told me that you stopped in there frequently on your way up north. That is one great little store. I loved the fact that your cds were for sale there… it made it all the more cool.
miranda, thank you. and about the place you saw my cds – i have the amazing opportunity to meet people in so many surprising places and because sometimes they know me – i get a jumpstart on getting to know their magic. these people have ‘quaker oaks’ and my family loves stopping there for pies etc on the way to holidays.
We will always love you Whitney Houston.
R.I.P Whitney Houston We will always love you.
A memory from when I was in Prince Edward Island back in the 90′s (I’m a Philly boy). I was listening to the radio, and you were being interviewed. You were talking about Waters of March by Antonio Carlos Jobim, and I seem to remember that you said that you thought the singers sounded like they were in love (or something like that). I don’t remember exactly. But that song became an internal soundtrack for that trip because I met someone at my bed and breakfast who was from Markham. We became really good friends, as close as 2 people could be separated by many miles and two country’s borders (even as close as ours, and not just in a physical sense). The song fit my feelings perfectly. I still think of her and that trip periodically.
‘elis and tom’. : )
Listening to the soundtrack of The Top of his Head. Bought it because I’m a Fred Frith fanatic, and here you are singing. Very nice song too. Sounds like you didn’t actually work with Fred, unfortunately.
I worked with a guy in Moonbeam Ontario back in ’85 who claimed you were his aunt.
andrew?
That could have been his name. Unfortunately I cannot remember anymore. We were Junior Rangers at Bonner Lake (Moonbeam)
I have only just discovered your music.. I would wish that I had discovered it earlier but to hear it for the first time is really special – an time to remember! Every day someone new will hear your words and everyday you will touch someones soul, how many people in life get the chance to do that?
The world can never have too much of you!
‘a time to remember’ – hey its 1240am here and I’m no good at proof reading..
Hi Jane
I just want to say how much I Love your music, since the beginning! My life is all about music. I so wish I could have seen you perform, I live about an hour North-West of Guelph. Mimi on the beach is a song I can never get enough of, including the video … memories! My friends also Love your Music. Keep up the good work my dear. PS. I have animals ( ;
What a sad day with the death of beautiful Whitney Houston, her beautiful voice has been in my life for years. R.I.P. Whitney
Dear Jane,
Welcome back in my life! I cried of course again yesterday when I listened to Would you go? The album is sooo powerful. After that, I read a little about you and I learned that you were still making music; sorry about the fact that I “lost” you after Maria. But today I listened to those two albums that I bought, Meshach Dreams Back and With What Shall I Keep Warm? I missed you so much.
I did it…
Feeling like a little boy who writes to Santa for the first time
“As above why no so below?
-WE COULD HAVE BEEN GREAT FRIENDS”
Is this a quote?
DOH!
That was Homeresque of me.
No need to answer.
Hi, Jane,
First, thanks so much for all the incredible music you’ve made over the years. I’ve have especially carried “When I Was A Boy” in my heart for many years now. I’ll always be torn to ask you what’s behind the magic curtain and yet, at the same time, don’t want to know. Still, I’d like to tell you about a curiosity that my interest you. For me, there is one sound in all your recordings that stands apart from everything else, indeed, I’d be hard pressed to name anything like 3:03-3:04 of Sweet Incarnadine. It seems that moment captured a dream-like groan/sigh/word that is unlike anything I’ve ever heard. Either that, or you stepped away from the mike and accidentally recorded an audio artifact.
In any case, that vocalization, half-buried in the track, has always seemed to me like a fleeting glimpse into the singer’s heart as she sings an ecstatic, quasi-liturgical confessional affirmation of love. Maybe a secret emotional key. Anyway, the sound and the song have moved me for years and I thank you.
If you’re ever in Barcelona and would like a tour guide or some hospitality, please just let me know.
Hugs, J.
Dear Jane
I just wanted to write and say thank you for the exquisite mix of pleasure and pain your music makes me feel. I wonder do you experience the same level of emotion in creating and recreating it? Is there some level of reciprosity for you, the artist, when you are in the depths of your artistic endeavours?
the force the makes a musician focus on something, that pulls them further like a magnet, is equal and opposite to the force that listeners who ‘get it’ can feel. once the song is written, the battery is intact for all who may get something out of it by ‘plugging in’ but usually elsewhere for the artist.
Hello Jane – Longtime fan of your art. It has moved me many times.
I would really love to learn to play and sing ‘Hockey’ and “Love is Everything’ on my guitar. For me, mostly! Is there anywhere I can find the chords?
looking forward to seeing you in London again – soon, I hope.
Peace
sheet music for ‘love is everything’ is at music/sheet music here.
http://www.janesiberry.com/sheet-music-lyrics/
i don’t have charts for ‘hockey but it only has 2 chords!
‘hockey’ is either G and C or it is C and F. (any key really – just I to a IV and back. like skating)
Yay! Thanks, Jane. Love love love xxx Happy Heart Day.
Hey Jane,I saw your concert for Bound By the Beauty in Ottowa.N.A.C.I didnt want it to end.Ii really have never enjoyed entertainment in that way before or since.I also love that album,but I have to say I wore out The Walking and Constantily[Goodbye my favorite...no they all are]I just really like who you present to us,and think your gorgeous to boot.I am thrilled to think you may read this,and believe this.Congradulations on making use of yourself.
‘congratulations on making use of yourself’. what a wonderful expression. and ‘making use of yourself’ can be as simple as being as pure a reflection of ‘you’ as is right at this time in your journey. as the more one is ‘you’ the more one is ‘god’.
Dearest,
I lost you a while ago, It may have even been five or six years…
I have been very sad. Somehow today your voice came again… I spent all day singing… my neighbours were listening on this London street. I cried a lot.
But know I know somehow six or five years ago when I lost you… I lost myself too.
I’m so happy now I can find the me I want to be… and the every day can become the once was.
I love you.
I meant but now I know. But you know that. If you are ever in London let me know. We have a lovely house and a sweet guest room just off the Columbia Road Flower Market. -Nathan
: ) i hear you, nathan. i am glad you are ‘alive’. i have come alive many times and it is precious. i like a single purple iris.
Dearest Jane,
I own a small listening room in boston , ma (cap=100ppl)
http://www.facebook.com/magicroomgallery
If you ever do venture out onto the road again
we’ve love to have you.
best wishes,
Katherine Desmond
thank you, katherine. this sounds wonderful.
http://www.andiesisle.com/Calling_All_Angels.html
found it..!!
I had a video of “Calling All Angels” where the Angel does not move but if you move the mouse, stars move with it. It was rather dark. My computer crashed and I lost it and cannot find it again. Anyone know this one and can post a link? Please…and thank you!
Ok
- of course I am always amazed how the universe works in magical ways.
I was just speaking with my neighbor who just let me know they are going around the world in July and August.
They decided not to rent but are thinking about the idea of a house-sit.
-if I know someone trustworthy, they will even give use of the car.
different month but speedy response.
*S
Thank you for the food for my spirit, your voice, your songs on “When I was A boy” and your warmth towards your listeners you show on this site. Come to Australia soon, please.
I had the honor & privilege to see Jane perform in Portland, OR.
Soon after I wrote and dedicated this poem to her.
LADY JANE
Night frost shimmers on lighted streets
Our hot breath billows white clouds
as marquis greets
Patrons entering “Aladdin Theater”, now past its prime
Outlived its peers, impervious to time
Tickets bought, blue stamp on left hand,
Walk down aisle, past a busy stagehand
Soft music playing as we claim front row seat
Take a metal backed chair on a floor of concrete
We’re early, there’s time to connect with friends
House lights go dim…the bantering ends
Haunting sounds, soft music begins to play
A gentle voice sings not far away
With confident strides Lady Jane takes center stage
Exuding beauty, grace as from some distant age
Her melodious voice commands time to stand still
Vibrations move within, my senses drink their fill
With mystery and magic from a Priestess beheld
She speaks of today’s children wisely compelled
To change world chaos with eyes that can see
She speaks of what they must do so all can simply Be
She speaks of oneness with compassion and love,
Akashic wisdom channeled from above
She speaks of the freedom of simplifying her life
By cutting out possessions with an invisible knife
I close my eyes, roll them up, so third eye can see
Lady Jane’s final message to my brethren and me
‘Love one-another and be separate no more,
For love is the answer to end strife and war’
My eyes then opened fresh and anew
Consciousness soaring, “What a view”
Jane asks us, “Will you marry me, for the rest of your life? ‘
We answer“Yes, Goddess, Madonna, you can be our wife”
For you’re “The Bride of the Ages” since before time began
From the time before “The Patriarchy” imposed its ban
By suppressing female aspects in women and men
With the slash of a sword and the stroke of a pen
Began the erosion of man’s soul, a perilous trend…
The time is at hand this madness end
(Dedicated to Jane Siberry)
rotms.blogspot.com
Jane,
It would be wonderful if you could work here in Marin to avoid the cold in Toronto.
Is there someone you can stay with?
Better yet -
Does anyone have a place for Jane and her dog to stay in Marin County in March and April.
Wished I had seen this back in the spring. I have a large dog-friendly flat in Sonoma with a guest room with a terrace. Hope it wasn’t too cold in Toronto….
Hi Jane. I love all your music with the exception of the most recent album. It’s terrible. But I still love you.
not bad. you could have thrown me out with the bathwater.
i’ve listened to it many times and it still stands up. like one long song. so if you can get past your first impression (now that that is over) try to give it another shot with different ears. the temple section has the most spoken word so perhaps skip over that.
hi jane. missing you in boston. hope you get a chance to make it back this way soon.
watch for my next museletter/facebook request.
Hi Jane,
Being an ardent music fan, one of my favorite things has always been to turn people on to good music of all kinds that they may not have heard otherwise (needless to say you’ve been recommended to them all, as well as Shawn Colvin, The Innocence MIssion, The Roches, even Rammstein!). Who is the last artist or group you heard that made you really want to spread the word about them?
so many. i’m not a great example person. pardon me.
I was putting a playlist of songs about hockey together, and couldn’t find Hockey on the iTunes. Thanks for letting us have it.
Justin
itunes usa or itunes canada?
did the bound by the beauty cd here have the ‘censored’ version on it, too? would you like that?
iTunes Canada. Bound by the Beauty had both versions on it, but thank you for the offer.
Hi, sweetie, hope it feel rightly good to have all the love you kindly share, back.
i look forward to when we can all feel how others love us and be more warmed by it.
I have been trying to find a copy of the music for The Valley all over the internet. Pleanty of lyrics posted, but no music. Could you tell me where I could get a copy of it, even if its just the chords.
hi tim, i will put the sheet music up on the ‘music’ page for you today. transaction options are at ‘transaction’ page.
done. let me know if any problems downloading.
Jane,
Thank’s for that. Downloaded fine as a PDF file. I assume as it is written in the key of E that it was written on the guitar, which is just as well as I am a better guitarist than keyboard player. I think k d lang does it in Db which a bit neither here or there musically. Beututiful song!
Thanks so much for your generosity.
Jude and Tim.
Thanks very much Jane.
I’ll try and download it later. You might want to try and get it on somewhere like SheetMusicDirect.com as I’m sure I’m not the only person in the world who loves this song and wants the music? I’ve tried all those sort of websites and noone had it.
Dear Jane:
I love the “Calling all angels” very much!Could you give me a Lyrics of it? I can’t find it on chinese website.Thanks!
And by the way: In China ,happy sprig festivel!
‘calling all angels’ lyrics here. if you’d like the sheet music, i’ll put it up on the music page for everyone. good idea!
done.
please look for it. if you don’t find it easily just using logic, please tell me so i can make whereabouts ‘at-a-glance’.
Thank you very much!!!I love it!
I listened to it at the end of “Pay it forward”, and i think it’s amazing!
And thanks to your lyrics .Thank you very much!
I meant to enquire earlier – Jane, will you be coming to Wales anytime soon??? I notice a welsh dragon behind you on one of your photographs just a moment ago!! Have you been here recently?
no plans at this time, but hope to once again.
wales and jane:
jane’s dog, gwyllym, is from a farm in brecon. meshach is her welsh grandfather’s name. ‘you don’t need’ (no borders here) mentions ‘merthyr tydfyll’. jane’s mother called herself the dragon. jane like slate.
I know all these places – live very near to them, in Monmouthshire. Brecon area has very spiritual places -I find this area inspirational for painting and walking with my black dog (who also loves jane singing)….. lindie’s mother also loves jane and calls herself dragon sometimes. I love water (especially the sea),and stone, and shells……….
I still have your 1st vinyl album, there’s been no that has ever come close to you style, just love you. You went to Guelph with my boyfriends’ brother in the 80′s, he was very mesmerized by you surname MacQuairre I think Steve was his 1st name?
I’m a big patron of The Hugh’s Room in Toronto, I haven’t see you booked there in quite some time, do you have any bookings for Toronto in the future? Please please do share.
autumn possibly. will announce.
Can’t wait. I went looking for the lyrics to Calling All Angels that you mentioned you posted but couldn’t find?? Hint..
done.
please look again. if not ‘at-a-glance’ easy, i’ll find another way.
Hello jane, I have only recently ‘found’ you. Thank you so much for blessing my life with such spiritual and soul comforting music and rhythms. You are a beautiful gift to our world – wishes of love, peace and fulfillment go from my heart to you jane x
thank you, lindie. i wish you all the best, also.
Thank-you for the gift of music again Jane……I used to dance to you and your band at the Trent Inn in Peterborough, then on Queen St in Toronto (can’t remember the venue…I was always swept away to another dimension with your music and haunting vocals.
Living in the Ottawa valley now and just got high speed internet. I must say I am enjoying your tunes so much again. Life has been difficult lately and belting out “Calling all Angels” with you is terrific therapy. I can’ wait to explore your more recent material……
Daphne
peterborough was a musical place – we played there alot. met the wonderful david ramsden there. did you ever see his ‘quiet please, there’s a lady on stage’ shows at the cameron. hope you are finding a way to change difficult to ‘diamond’.
Yes, peterborough was wonderful place to spend my high school years. It was a liberating place No, did not see David Ramsden at the Cameron I am sorry to say. Did catch Rev. Ken and the Lost Followers and Rick Fines tho’ (think his bands’ name has changed).
Vancouver must be an inspiring place to live…..my brother moved from Burnaby to Maple Ridge and loves it. Did a whirlwind five day visit four years ago….WOW what a city
I am hopeful the tide is turning, dreaming of calmer waters
Hey it is nice to talk to you….thanks for your time.
Daphne
Dear Jane,
I saw you last night at Yoshi’s in San Francisco, singing “Calling All Angels” – one of my favorite songs. I meant to thank you but slipped away before the show ended. I listen to a lot of different music, but for some random reason yours has provided the soundtrack for some of the warmest moments in my life.
You sounded and looked great last night. Glad to see you are well.
shawn colvin is a sister and a very musical being. singing together, that was just a start. i look forward to when we can REALLY work together with our voices and ‘make music’.
Hi Jane,
I’m doing radiation for breast cancer and am making up a radiation play list for myself. Did one of your songs have a lyric with the words “don’t give up” ? How about any with “fire” or “burn” – or anything else with the idea of destruction (ie destroying cancer cells). I just got on your email list in case you’ll come around my part of the world.
Thanks!
Kate Bush has a song “don’t give up”, it’s a duet with Peter Gabriel. Is this what you were thinking?
Yes, that’s the song. Thanks so much.
‘a train is coming’ (dragon dreams) has a line ‘don’t give up, get ready. prepare yourselves, get ready’ also: ‘half angel half eagle’ (bound by the beauty) has ‘get ready’ in it, but i don’t think you’d mean that song for your playlist. an excellent idea to create something positive. i’ve always disliked the ‘competition’ insinuation of music awards shows as i think the more music, the higher the resolution of the musical medicine cabinet. we need ALL of us.
Thanks, Jane. I’ll listen to those and see if they’ll work for my playlist. Thanks for your website!
“burning down the house”…talking heads
Thanks! I’ve got that one, Dynamite, Fireworks, and Blow. Also, Just Breathe, since all I can do during the treatments is Just Breathe. And Ground Control to Major Tom because I’m left alone with all this space ship equipment while the techs are in their control room watching me on monitors!
Moving!
Hi Jane…i thought of you at minus 26 degrees this morning as the sun came up into my little cove
my house was almost frozen,,and i sang,,first there was a fire,,little fire,,little cove
Years ago my kids pointed out a t-shirt that had my name, then I heard my name introduce a song!!! So, we both pronounce our name the same, but mine is spelled differently! Kudo’s to you as you have an amazing voice (I don’t) and would love to meet you someday! I live in East TN!
Dear Jane – Please come to the Sunshine Coast 0f BC
I have a studio on the Sunshine Coast of BC – we hold house concerts to try to keep musical things happening out here – so many venues disappearing. I love your music – we can hold up to 40 people (that’s a squeeze)
but it’s really intimate. If you’re ever thinking about coming out here and are still doing salon concerts, we would be blessed to have you. You can see some pictures of our space at http://www.straitsound.com – look at the “Gallery”. I met you once but briefly at a Juno after party – I used to be in Art Bergmann’s band. As I recall, we got kicked out of the venue for the usual reasons!
Well life is different now.
much respect, Susann
sounds excellent. one of the best ways to come and perform is to say there might be animals there! please join my js (museletter) or facebook page – when i send message out that i am interested in performance proposals, remind me. thank you!
They’re good peeps, Susann and Ray.
Hello!I have to tell you a short story.Sometimes in the 1980 there was shown a documentary on tv here in Finland and i thought the music was absolytelu fantastic.Back then internet was not common,didnt exsist?!And to find Jane Siberrys record and order them was a big process,but i managed and enjoyed the music.Now when we moved and i trough my stuff i found my old lp and started to listened.Then i went on internet and found that youre still making music and nowadays finding information and stuff is So much easier and im so glad that i found your music again,Thank You!
this makes me very glad. i will give the internet an extra cookie tonight.
an extra cookie! made me laugh
I love you Jane.