Sienna Dahlen is a Juno award-winning vocalist. She is also a music educator, an instrumentalist and a composer of six albums of original folk and jazz music to date. Her 2012 album entitled « Verglas » received rave reviews and was signed to the longstanding Montreal jazz label, Justin Time Records. In 2016 « Ice Age Paradise » was released and it features a collection of original compositions that were arranged by bassist, Andrew Downing for a 10-piece ensemble of incredible Toronto-based musicians. In January of 2020, Sienna recorded a duo album of jazz ballads with guitarist, Bill Coon entitled « Balladextrous » which is set for release on Cellar Live records in 2023.

 

Sienna has toured her music extensively across Canada, Europe, and parts of the US in addition to numerous appearances in Mexico and South America. Sienna has also collaborated on several national and international projects as a co-leader/lyricist with musicians such as Joel Miller and his « Dream Cassette » band (Canada), Mads Baerentzen’s « Lifelines » project (Denmark), Lebanese pianist and composer, Wassim Soubra's « Dunes » album (France) and Paris-based Canadian drummer, Karl Jannuska’s « Streaming » and « The Halfway Tree » records. Sienna also appears on Jannuska's « Midseason » record alongside vocalist Denzal Sinclaire and is the voice of Mike Rud's 2014 Juno award-winning album « Notes on Montreal ». In addition to these collaborations, Sienna has been a guest vocalist on several occasions with L'Orchestre National de Jazz de Montreal. Finally, Sienna is the featured singer on the soundtrack for the 2007 Oscar-winning animated short, The Danish Poet by Torill Kove (music by Kevin Dean).

 

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"Good artists find a way to tackle difficult emotions with  sincerity and clarity of vision. Sienna Dahlen has crafted a record that simultaneously expresses grief and grapples with how to transcend it; that tries to find peace and understanding in the coldest of states." "Dahlen’s performance is a revelation."

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Geoff Parent, (Dominionated)

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"Ice Age Paradise is richly expansive and deeply searching." (It has) "the ability to sweep you away to some lunary world and Dahlen's voice is the only thing that keeps you tethered until it too drifts 

away...exquisite."

 

Shelley Gummeson, CFBX Radio

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"Sienna Dahlen has made a beautifully compelling record that is soulful and unique."                                                                            

Ron Sexsmith 

                                                                                                                           

"Ambiances éthérées, profondément sensuelles, subtiles du début à la fin de ce Verglas...En bref, un coup de coeur pour Sienna Dahlen."

                                                                                                

Alain Brunet (La Presse) 4/4 stars

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"...Verglas goes from the good to the great with “Carrie,” the last of its seven cuts and a stunningly memorable, rage-filled anthem against an impending death."

 

Peter Goddard (Toronto Star) 4/4 stars

 

“Dahlen has an extremely alluring voice, one that could sell rainwater in a snowstorm.”
 

Pascal-Denis Lussier (All About Jazz)

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“Mélodies extrêmement élaborées…musicalité, diction et goût remarquables chez Sienna Dahlen (délicieuse voix, typiquement“britannique”), à l’image de celle de Josefine Lindstrand chez Django Bates.”
                                                                                                           

Éric Quenot (Jazz Magazine-France)

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