NANCY WHITE is a kind of anglo-chanteuse whose combination of sweetness and edge made her the darling of CBC radio freaks during her years writing topical songs for Sunday Morning. She�s been described as �a combination of Maritimes roots, festive spirit and irrepressible humor�, although she herself claims to be the unfriendliness woman ever to have to leave the east coast.

Born in P.E.I., hardened in Toronto, Nancy has been writing songs, many of them comic and/or political, for many years. But although she�s probably best known for her massive Sunday Morning output (fifteen years� worth), she�s probably best liked for the CD Momnipotent: Songs for Weary Parents, which drew on her experiences as a late-life mother of two girls.

Her latest CD, Gaelic Envy and Other Torch Songs, (Borealis) is not at all topical and is about 50-50 comedy/straight. This spring Borealis released a CD version of her quite beautiful 1983 album Nancy White Unexpected. Although Nancy is about as spiritual as a toaster, she regularly performs songs on Vision TV�s public affairs show, Insight. This fall�s repertoire includes serious songs like �Ordinary People�, �Children in Arms� and �Las Maquinas Nos Esperan�; and comic numbers like �The Shabbas Goy C�est Moi�, �Mary Jane's Got Your Number�, �Les Belles Belles Fesses� and �Freefloating Anxiety�.

Along with her pianist Bob Johnston, she sang (and wrote) some World War I songs for CBC TV�s The History Project. She's also been a guest on CBC Radio�s The Vinyl Caf�, played at the Mariposa, Blue Skies and Brampton folk festivals, and done numerous concerts here and there�including a first-time performance in Chicago on WFMT�s Folkstage series. Although Nancy has sung in Nicaragua, Germany, and Scotland, she�s had an almost totally Canadian career. Recent gigs include CBC TV�s Comics (all Nancy, with a song by her alter-ego Fiona Freud, Second Lady of the Guitar), and a concert at a Montreal event called Cohen2000, which celebrated the life and poetry of Leonard Cohen. There she dazzled the Cohenistas with, among other things, her underground hit, �Leonard Cohen�s Never Gonna Bring My Groceries In.� She�s recently done shows in Guelph, Perth, Gananoque, Minnedosa, Man, Charlottetown, Ottawa, London, Hamilton,

Mississauga, Oakville, and Toronto.

Her songs have recently been featured in the cabaret shows Mama Mia! Me A Mama? in Edmonton, and Wrinkles in Toronto. She and Bob Johnston and New York writer Jeff Hochhauser are working on a musical called Anne and Gilbert.

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"A carnival ride of life's perversities. If you've ever been lucky enough to catch Nancy in concert, you know just how funny she is. Whether playing a theatre in Salmon Arm, a political convention, in Ottawa or a fundraiser in Charlottetown, Nancy is a real crowd pleaser."
Halifax Chronicle-Herald