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Arlette is a gifted musician with a beautiful, full voice that captures honesty, pain and humor throughout her songs. Stage presence and crowd appeal are what makes the difference between a good musician and a magnificent performer. Arlette is magnificent in her natural and composed way. She's memorable, genuine and "somebody you wish you could get to know".
She's been in the music business for more than twenty years, has a grown family and has followed her dreams and family to Vancouver BC, where she has currently released her award winning CD "WOLF GIRL". Arlette follows her own path which is heading her to personal fulfillment and the time to do the really important things in life.
Salmon event catches songwriter's imagination.
"By Vancouver CourierSeptember 26, 2008"
Some of Arlette Alcock's most vivid childhood memories are of the trips to the nearby river she made with her parents in Salmo, a small town near Trail in the Kootenays.
"I remember seeing the salmon in the river, and it was like the old clich. There were so many, you could walk across a moving mass of it."
The singer, recipient of a Songwriter of the Year nod from the Native-E Music Awards held this month in Albuquerque, N.M., performs at this weekend's Salmon Celebration--Remembering Our History, Celebrating the Living Sept. 28 at Vanier Park.
Besides Alcock and other musical acts, including Fraser Union, the False Creek Watershed Society production features a parade, dancing, fish hats, boat building, and stilt walking. Most of all, the celebration--now in its fifth year--is an occasion for people to gather and talk salmon.
"Musqueam Creek is the last remaining wild salmon stream in Vancouver," said Salmon Celebration organizer Celia Brauer.
"One has been redone in Spanish Banks, and the Aquarium did one--you can do these pocket streams."
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| CD Review By Calvin Daniel |
WOLFGIRL
Arlette Alcock
Independent
If you want one word to sum up Arlette Alcock's release of Wolfgirl it would be 'lyrics'.
This CD has some strong messages entwined in the songs, starting with Alberta Sunshine and Kitsilano Boys, the first two songs on this 11-cut effort, along with others such as the title-cut Wolfgirl.
I would say the key to enjoying this CD is to actually listen to the words, and digest the sentiment behind them.
Musically, Alcock has taken a folkish approach, keeping the instrumentation minimalist in order to highlight the words, and it works.
Alcock's voice has something of a conversational feel, perhaps homage to the oral storytelling of First Nations and Metis people. Whatever the reason, it generally works, although on occasion she might have simply opted for the spoken word as a change of pace.
This may not be for everyone, but it is a good musical window to the culture of Canada's founding people, and the messages presented are worth contemplating.
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December 4, 2008 01:06 PM
BURNABY It isn't every day that a CUPE BC aboriginal working group meeting manages to squeeze in a live performance by an award-winning songwriter.
But that's what happened yesterday, when Metis performer and CUPE 15 member Arlette Alcock, a special guest at the year-end meeting, picked up her acoustic guitar and played a few songs from her second album, Wolfgirl, to the delight of AWG members and CUPE BC secretary-treasurer Mark Hancock.
In September, Alcock won a Songwriter of the Year award for her composition Alberta Sunshine at this year's Native-E Music Awards in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At the AWG meeting, she shared stories of her life growing up in a family wounded by residential school abuse, sang an upbeat union song, and entertained AWG members with the satirical and saucy Kitsilano Boys.
Alcock is a much-in-demand folk and aboriginal music singer/songwriter who has performed at festivals across the country and appeared on CBC radio's Richardson's Roundup and The Afternoon Edition as well as on Aboriginal People's Television's Beyond Words.
As a CUPE 15 member, she works as a library assistant at Emily Carr University of Art & Design.
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