Powerful music, songs with a social consciences, NRA and Columbine, wrongful imprisonment, making the world a better place, the homeless along with some powerful love songs sung by the emotive, vocals of John Gracie

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FOLK: Power-folk, COUNTRY: Country Folk



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Award-winning Singer/Songwriter John Gracie

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Here's another Cape Bretoner that was born to write and sing music. Growing up close enough to the Atlantic Ocean to feel its spray hit his bedroom window, its power long has been an inspiration for his music. This new CD, Acoustic JEEP comes after a period of personal losses and reevaluation of himself and the world we live. His mother once visited a fortune teller who told her that her son would get everything he needed in life because of his guitar. It has come to be. The following are some highlights of John Gracie's career.

-International touring artist, performs at festivals/special events, performing arts centres, conferences, host of songwriter circles in Canada and the US, toured Tokyo to Miami
-2004 release of 8th album, Acoustic Jeep distributed by MapleNationwide
-2003 release of DVD, John Gracie-Christmas As I Remember It, Christmas Special airs on satellite TV
-2003 national festival circuit
-2003/04 Performances with NS Symphony Orchestra
-2003 Christmas CD sells 50,000 units
-Christmas 2002, national Christmas Tour, Christmas TV special airs in Eastern Canada, Ontario and Saskatchewan
-2002 NEMO Music Conference, Boston, MA (one of two Canadians chosen to appear in Around the World in 80 Minutes- an International Songwriters Circle hosted by Club Passim, Harvard Square
-2002 East Coast Music Awards nominee
-2001 Juno Nominee *Canadian version of the Grammy's
-2001 Nominee for The INDIES Canadian Independent Music Awards-Album of the Year
-2001 Best of Texas International Awards-Songwriter of the Year
- Three-time ECMA Male Artist of the Year - only artist to receive this honour two years consecutively- Male Artist of the Year for 2000, 1990 and 1989 and nominee as Country Artist of the Year in 2002, 2000 and 1997.
-Canadian Big Country Award Nominee 2000 for Outstanding New Male Vocalist of the Year.
-Nominated for Male Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year- Nova Scotia Music Awards 2000
-Chosen as mainstage showcase artist for Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference in the Poconos, PA (only 22 chosen from over 200 applicants worldwide)
-Received a gold record for his original composition Seabird's Cry
- Received international acclaim for his tribute to songwriter Gene MacLellan. Distributed by EMI Music, John Gracie-A Gene MacLellan Tribute was listed as a Canadian best seller and critically acclaimed by music reviewers across the country.
- John Gracie has a significant catologue of original songs
- John Gracie's song Pass It On has been chosen as a theme song for food banks across Canada. This song was included on the CD, Tears of a Thousand Years, featuring Canadian Folk Artists, which was produced to raise money for the victims and families of September 11th tragedy.
Acoustic Jeep- John Gracie

Acoustic JEEP is John Gracie's 8th CD and he says it feels like his first. It is an all original CD that comes after a period of personal losses and changes in his life. The songs are filled with emotion and without a master plan, ironically, many have taken a slant of social conscience. Some are gritty, some are tender and some were great discoveries like the collaboration with Fizz of Universal Soul, a Halifax rap artist who came on board for Which Way is the Wind Blowin', the story of the wrongful imprisonment of Mi'kmaq native, Donald Marshall. George Christmas, a Mi'kmaq from Marshall's hometown also joins in on this song with a native chant that is haunting.
There is also the powerful song, NRA Anyway about incidents like Columbine and the trouble with the folks at the NRA.
These Are the Times is a reflection of what we should do to make the world a better place and Kiss Me is a tender song asking people to understand why the homeless are where they are, "kiss me, see me" one emotional line in the last verse grabs the listener, "once momma's little baby, a daddy's pride and joy, bated breath beneath the blanket lies the broken little boy".
Powerful songs of love gone wrong are found in If You Threw It All Away, Trouble's Hangin' Around My Door, Dance Bobbie Dance, Don't Go and the Kristofferson like, Send the Soldiers.

The beautiful ballad, Old Stone Well, evolved to be a song encompassing the final moments John spent with his dying sister. Although written years before, the song entered his mind again as he sat with her on her last days, the reason for the song was revealed.

For more information, visit www.johngracie.com or email agracie@johngracie.com