2013 Juno nominee Annabelle Chvostek is a versatile singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Toronto. In 2004, she was selected to replace Cara Luft in the Juno-winning Wailin’ Jennys, a gig that took her from obscurity to international acclaim.

In 2007, she left the Jennys and reprised her solo career, releasing Resilience, in 2008. Resilience was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Album of the Year and became the second most-played Canadian album at US folk radio at the start of 2009.

Since the album’s release, Chvostek has done yearly tours of the UK, criss-crossed Canada and the US and completed a 2009 tour through Poland and Slovakia.

In 2011, her two co-written duets with Canadian legend Bruce Cockburn were released on his Juno-winning album Small Source of Comfort.

Annabelle’s distinct musical imagination is in evidence on her latest 2013 release, Juno-nominated Rise, for she has managed to take a decades-old art form, the protest song, and completely re imagine it for a new era of activism.

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