Amelia Curran
Biographie Amelia Curran
Amelia Curran
is a Juno-Award winning songwriter, activist, and mental health advocate from St. John’s, NL. Her music is distinguished by her intricate and evocative lyrics – no wonder she has been compared to Leonard Cohen. The first of her eight recordings was released in 2000 and grew out of her experience busking on the streets of St. John’s. Her most recent recording, Watershed (2017), lives up to its name and marks a directional change in her music. The tone of this new album is openness and reveals her increasingly public efforts to battle the stigma of mental health issues in the arts. As a whole, the album calls for compassion and unification as a breakwater against the sea of cruelties we inflict upon each other and upon ourselves. Two cuts from Watershed, “Gravity” and “No More Quiet,” are receiving much airplay and show the strength of her songwriting. Amelia’s previous Festival appearance was in 2014.
