Tuesday, October 21 - 7:30pm
WMCA Presents Paula Cole & Sophie B Hawkins ~ One Night Only ~ October 21st
Two Trailblazing voices of the '90s celebrated for their genre-defying artistry in pop and jazz. Songs that shaped a generation and powerful recent release - one extraordinary night of music
Paula Cole is a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and producer. Paula won Best New Artist i 1998 and was the first woman nominated in her own right for Producer of the Year. She has in recent years honoured her love for jazz and folk standards and song for social justice. Her beloved anthems "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" and "I Don't Want to Wait" are still playlist and radio perennials. A truth-teller, provocateur, feminist and brilliant autobiographical writer who has pushed for personal honesty and social change, Cole wrote all the songs on her 2024 Lo as a way to navigate her opening to trust again after life's indelible blows. Weaving the personal with the universal, she wrestles with questions of identity and intimacy, history and our collective failure to learn from it, ultimately showing the album to be a window into her own psych.
Since the start of her musical journey, Sophie B. Hawkins has shown an uncompromising devotion to her singular truth endlessly transcending boundaries and offering up new ways of experiencing the world around us. Rooted in Hawkins' raw yet poetic lyrics and effortlessly captivating vocals, her newest single "Love Yourself" - a soul-stirring piece of symphonic pop threaded with Hawkins' true-to-life storytelling - is an undeniable anthem for rising above negativity of all kinds and embracing absolute self-love. Hawkins emerged as a vibrant force on the musical landscape with the arrival of her platinum-selling debut album Tongues and Tails (which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary) and its iconic lead single "Damn I Wish I was Your Lover". She defied categorization and embraced her individuality by embodying a daring fluidity as a musician, working with some of the most creative jazz musicians of the era on her debut album. She also challenged the norms of gender expression and sexual orientation at a time when political, social and sexual labels were more rigid. Her ever-evolving career has included releasing six albums, breaking chart records with smash hit "As I Lay Me Down", multiple worldwide singles, songs in TV shows and films (from recent hits Stranger Things and Ozark to landmark series Beverly Hills 90210, Dawson's Creek, The L Word and more) and a starring role as Janis Joplin in the critically acclaimed musical Room 105.
TICKETS
$71.50
Price includes taxes and service charge
Tickets available at the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium Box Office, or call 204-728-9510
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