An artist with a remarkable ability to blend traditional folk music with a contemporary tone and lyrical landscape, Canadian vocalist, musician and songwriter Emily Jean Flack has translated her soul-elevating experience living, studying and creating in Ireland into a truly special and compelling debut collection of original music.
Now dividing her time between Dorchester, Ontario and Limerick, Ireland, Flack is set to release her first original EP, Throwing Shapes on January 25, 2019– music that is exceptionally melodic, with superlative musicianship thanks to a cadre of excellent players, but which is imbued and enfolded by Flack’s soul-stirring voice and emotionally unfettered lyrics.
Flack grew up in a very musical family. She is the daughter of Denise Flack, who is one of the talented siblings in the ground-breaking Celtic-pop band Leahy – one of the bands who led that genre’s wildly popular resurgence in the 1990s. Like many in her family, music, traditional dance and playing instruments was simply a way of life, regardless of whether becoming a professional entertainer was ever in the cards.
The foundation of Emily Flack’s discipline and creative rigour as an artist came from those early years, performing as a dancer or accompanist/background singer alongside her family in Leahy.
While Flack’s undeniable passion for music may have been stirred, fostered and founded on her upbringing, it was just that – a foundation. One from which she is just beginning to build and explore her own inspirations, her own style and more significantly, her own voice as a songwriter.
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Check out the lyric video for the first single from the EP, Another Year Gone By here:
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Melodious voice!! Hats off to great musicians!!