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Joel Plaskett
The Song "Through and Through and Through"
Written by Joel Plaskett
Performed by Joel Plaskett |
Bio
Joel Plaskett has earned his reputation as a consistently exciting, dynamic live performer throughout his career, even from his teenage years fronting the Halifax indie upstart band Thrush Hermit in the ‘90s. He’s also garnered steadily increasing critical respect and commercial success in his recording career with his stellar band, The Emergency (currently, Dave Marsh on drums and Chris Pennell on bass), from the indie albums In Need of Medical Attention (1999) and Down at the Khyber (2001), through his MapleMusic recordings Truthfully Truthfully (2003) and La De Da (2005), his first solo effort.
Since 2006, Plaskett has toured extensively both solo and with The Emergency, to sold-out clubs and theatres throughout Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and Australia, on the heels of great Canadian success with his Make A Little Noise DVD & EP (2006) and Ashtray Rock concept album (2007).
Make A Little Noise spawned an infectiously catchy hit single, “Nowhere With You,” that landed Plaskett on the Top 10 at hot Adult Contemporary (AC) radio. He also garnered three 2007 East Coast Music Awards (ECMAs) “of the year” wins: Single for “Nowhere With You,” DVD for Make A Little Noise, and Songwriter. Ashtray Rock was nominated for the prestigious Polaris Music Prize, and earned Plaskett and his band all six of the 2008 “of the year” ECMAs for which he, and they, were nominated: Recording, Group Recording, Single (for “Fashionable People,” another hit song), Video (also for “Fashionable People”), Rock Recording, and Songwriter. He’s also earned several Juno nominations (including Songwriter of the Year) and was the First Place Winner in the 2008 Great American Song Contest and the Billboard World Song Contest, for “Fashionable People” (in the Pop Category).
His current release, the triple-album Three -- which has garnered rave reviews throughout the world, and is once again nominated for the Polaris Music Prize -- is something of a concept album built around the idea of traveling, where disc one is about departure, disc two is about separation, and disc three is about returning home.
Website
www.joelplaskett.com
Selected Discography
Three (triple album 2009)
Ashtray Rock (with his band The Emergency, 2007)
Make a Little Noise (DVD and EP, with The Emergency, 2006)
La De Da (2005)
Truthfully Truthfully (with The Emergency, 2003)
Down at the Khyber (2001)
In Need of Medical Attention (1999)
SOCAN Connection
Member since 1993
Cover story in Words & Music, Summer 2009
Feature story in Words and Music, Summer 2005
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