Coco Love Alcorn, a Canadian singer-songwriter with 20 years of touring and 10 albums to her credit, will be performing at the Norman Ritchie Community Centre on Friday night as part of the Kindersley & District Arts Council’s annual performing arts series.
Kenneth Brown
of The Clarion
Coco Love Alcorn has a career in music spanning two decades and the established Canadian musical artist is performing in Kindersley this Friday night.
Alcorn hits the stage on Oct. 19 at the Norman Ritchie Community Centre starting at 7:30 p.m. The singer brings a breadth of performance and recording history to the stage with a long list of festival appearances, cross-Canada tours and 10 albums.
Alcorn’s performance history includes appearances on the 1999 Lilith Fair tour, a tour co-founded by Sarah McLachlan that featured a wide range of female artists in its short run. She has been nominated for awards throughout her career and her latest album, Wonderland, was released in 2016.
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Friday’s show is the second of 10 in the Kindersley & District Arts Council’s 2018-19 Stars for Saskatchewan series. Local arts council members attend an annual showcase put on by the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils (OSAC) to book performers.
Tickets for arts council shows are available at Lela’s Music Centre, LaBelle Boutique and Integra Tire. Tickets are also available online at www.ticketpro.ca or at the door if the show has not already sold out. People also have the option to purchase a five-pack of tickets to choose from any five concerts from the 10 concerts in the series.
The arts council is attaching a theme to its concerts, and it is a new additive for the 2018-19 series. Jenn McLean, an arts council member and a spokesperson for the series, said this Friday’s theme is, A Night Out Theatre Style.
The theme at the first concert featured adult beverages made by a local brewer. McLean said representatives of the Creative Kids organization will be serving snacks at intermission and the concert should be fun. She said Alcorn is more well known than other performers in the series, and she puts on a good show.
In an interview, Alcorn said she has performed in the prairie region during a Home Roots tour in northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba about two years ago, but the stops on the OSAC tour will be new stops for her and she is looking forward to the performances.
“We’re very excited to come and I’m bringing my full band with me, so it’s going to be great,” she commented, recognizing that her band members play piano, bass and percussion and all band members sing to create the odd four-part harmony.
Alcorn, who took time off from touring to raise a child, said she has been touring more in the past two years and since the release of her latest album Wonderland. She said one of her main goals when she performs is to help everyone in the room “to feel connected to the experience and feel open to each other.”
She noted that she will be performing new and old songs and, just in time for her tour, two of her older albums have been repressed together to allow people to purchase both albums in one package, so it is nice for her to offer it to her fans.
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