about sarah by sarah Press Photos tv apperances

Press on Sarah

"Songs with a Window Seat" (The Hour)

Sarah Slean is no rookie in the music game, so it's odd that she's only now making her first appearance at the Montreal Jazz Festival. Then again, she's no longer the bright-eyed ingénue, but rather a calculating adult artist, so maybe the timing's just finally right.

"Sisterhood of Music: Morissette names the women who she thinks rock" (excerpt from Entertainment Weekly)

3. Sarah Slean. Her voice is like velvet and her lyrics are so her. I love artists who are distinctly themselves, and they're not trying to be something else.

Sarah Slean has Traveled "So Many Miles"

As I sat with singer/songwriter Sarah Slean in the dining room of a Vancouver hotel, it was difficult to imagine that less than twenty-four hours before, I had witnessed this now quiet, and slender woman cavorting about the stage, while she performed her first of two concerts in this west coast city. Now she appears reflective and delicate, almost like a porcelain doll, but during her performance, she rocked out on the piano at moments, while at other times she kibitzed with her fans while singing in cabaret style.

"Sarah Slean hits all the right notes at Broadway Theatre" (Star Phoenix)

Sarah Slean does not simply walk on stage to begin her live performances. That would be far too ordinary. Instead, she peeks from behind curtains and lets her band play a few bars before slinking over to her grand piano, smiling as if she knows something the audience doesn’t. She then settles herself by promptly kicking off her high heels — a tell-tale indication that the singer will hold nothing back and have a good time while doing it.

"Review: Sarah Slean" (Edmonton Journal)

Sarah Slean makes melancholy fun! That should be the tack Slean's publicists take when promoting her shows, it really should - after all, sadness turned Nick Drake into a big star, didn't it? Okay, okay, scratch that idea - still, the fact is that Slean is at her best when mapping out the tribulations of the human heart.

"Sarah Slean Gets Confessional"(Tandem)

Toronto songstress Sarah Slean may have given her new fifth album the name of her alter-ego, The Baroness, but the personality explored on the disc is decidedly her own. It is her most lyrically direct and confessional yet, as she explained to Tandem recently...

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman (AOL Music)

Whatever happened to the renaissance artist? Y’know, those multifaceted talents who could just as easily sing an aria as paint a portrait, or effortlessly toss off lines of lyrical poetry in between composing tricky melodies. Today’s culture, as fizzy and consumable as the “pop” prefix that usually precedes it, doesn’t exactly encourage great feats of artistry.

“Sarah Slean – The Baroness” (Telegraph-Journal)

You can write a love song, or, if you are Sarah Slean, you can live them passionately, let them take over your performance, connect with the most expressive words opening the doors to your emotions. Few artists exist with their songs so intensely. Slean seems to be her material, rather than just its creator.

"CD Review: The Baroness - Warrior Heart on Love’s Battlefield" (The Montreal Gazette)

Sarah Slean is a true romantic. Not the gooey, puppy-eyed kind, but the kind likely to glide on stage swathed in velvet. As the catalogue deconstructions on 2006's Orphan Music confirmed, she can make hearts melt with just a piano and her crimson-coloured voice. Still, she's smart enough to build a career on more than one style of dreamer's drama.

"'Exorcising' Her Cheaters" (Ottawa Citizen)

"Get Home", the tortured first single from Sarah Slean's new disc, The Baroness, will resonate with anyone who's had to deal with a cheater. "Liars and cowards," the tiny, elegant Slean declares with the conviction of one who's been stabbed in the back a few times herself, her vicious condemnation deployed in a deceptively sweet voice.

“Sarah Slean’s Return: All Hail The Baroness” (The Concordian)

Little Miss Slean is all grown up and she's returned with her fifth major label release The Baroness. "She is what I can be when fear and courage mix perfectly," the pianist said introducing her latest effort. "The baroness is my guide, my muse, my broken and triumphant-self. She is a wild woman in a red dress."

"Sarah Slean is The Baroness" (Current)

Sarah Slean has been beguiling audiences with her intriguing and provocative music for years. March 11, 2008 marked the much anticipated release of her fifth studio recording, The Baroness. Slean is not only an incredibly talented singer, songwriter, poet, and actor but she is also currently a music and philosophy student studying at the University of Toronto.