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Bonnie Couchie shines from the inside and her courageous honesty illuminates what lives in all of us. In deep, heartrending tones she sings songs that resonate. She will give you a unique refreshing sound and a rare vulnerability peppered with some great stories. If you listen carefully to her songs, you may even leave her show loving your stretch marks and scars a little more. On October 13, 2009 she released her debut CD entitled “Feather for an Elephant”
Ancestry: First Nations
Language: English
Genre: Acoustic, Folk
Albums
Awards, Nominations & Submissions
| 2010 | Best New Artist | Nominee | |
| 2010 | Best Album Cover Design | Feather for an Elephant | Nominee |
Biography
Everybody knows oldest children should stay on the straight and narrow and set a good example for the rest of their siblings. This is what Bonnie Couchie thought. Though music was her great love, she denied its' burning force until the age of 30 when she dared for the first time to profess it out loud. At that age having only tentatively played the guitar off and on since the age of 13, she looked around at all the musicians years younger and way ahead of her and felt she had no right to love music in that way. For the next 7 years she battled fear and doubt while writing songs and playing every single gig that she could find in the radius of her small town of 350 people. Torn between her love of her home by the river and her passion for Music, she created a house concert venue on the river that would welcome and nurture other musicians traveling along the lonely stretch of Trans Canadian Hwy. She built a refuge where Music would find her and feed her and where she would feed music in return. Now at 37 she has just completed her debut CD called "Feather for an Elephant". Finally. Having tripped out of her musical closet she has found herself in the middle of a full on party wearing nothing but her birthday suit....and there's no turning back. Bonnie Couchie shines from the inside and her courageous honesty illuminates what lives in all of us. In deep, heartrending tones she sings songs that resonate. She will give you a unique refreshing sound and a rare vulnerability peppered with some great stories. If you listen carefully to her songs, you may even leave her show loving your stretch marks and scars a little more. On October 13, 2009 she released her debut CD entitled “Feather for an Elephant” which, has seen international Radio play. Some of her songs have received accolades in CBC radio 3 and Indie Week Festival Twitters. Before the release of her CD, she was nominated for a Toronto Independent Music Award. In September and October 2009 She toured extensively in from Eastern Canada to Northwestern Ontario. She is an Ojibway from Pic River First Nation.
