Canoe.ca describes the “long, wrenching process” — over 21 months, that Amelia used to refine the strong emotions that make up the songs on “Hunter, Hunter”.

Out of the ruins of a failed relationship, Curran wrote two dozen original songs. Songs with searing emotional lines and poetic lines that many critics have compared to literary giant Leonard Cohen.

Amelia performed to an attentive Hugh’s Room crowd on Wednesday, July 7th during a heat wave in Toronto that included Jason Chu of NXEW blog

Unless you were in the room, it’s hard to describe the qualities she brings to her live show. Simply put, There is such delicacy and sensitivity in her vocals, which mesh perfectly with her guitar work, you don’t even notice the songs passing by. Her songs have storytelling and lyrics that keep you enthralled line by line.

Read the entire review here

Amelia Curran joined host Monica Miller on “How I Hear It” for an interview and in-studio performance. Amelia discusses the writing & song-naming process and performs, “Tiny Glass Houses”.  Hear the interview and performance here

Amelia’s show at Hugh’s Room this Wednesday (July 7) has been listed as one of this week’s “must-see shows” by NOW Magazine and dubbed a “best bet” by Eye Weekly.

Aux.TV breaks the news that Amelia, K-OS, Malajube +more are to perform for the Queen at a garden party at Rideau Hall in Ottawa for Canada Day

This upcoming Canada Day, east coast singer/songwriter Amelia Curran will be performing at a garden party at Rideau Hall in Ottawa for the various dignitaries in attendance, including the Queen of England. The St. John’s, Newfoundland born musician and former street busker recently won a Juno Award for Roots and Traditional Album of the Year: Solo with her latest album Hunter, Hunter. It also received four nominations at the 2010 East Coast Music Awards. Her sound has been described as “a bit like Leonard Cohen being channeled in a dusty saloon by Patsy Cline.”

Amelia’s latest column on Canadian Interviews came out today:

Making it Look Good

Or, the Audience of One

“Some things look better on paper. But not many things. Two kids kissing in front of the subway doors, for instance, is an insignificant fraction of its true scene when put on paper. She gone and he ambling away in slow motion as though his environment were its perfect opposite and not the caterwaul of Bloor and Yonge Streets. I stand there small portions of the day, leaning against the building in a triangle of shade, smoking cigarettes and less conspicuous than a discarded coffee cup. I, as it were, do actually look better on paper. Real life is made of meat, and I am constructed of a series of syllables and contrasting ideas, worthy enough of the space they take up, but not much to look at when you run into them on the street…”

Read full article here

Amelia is long-listed along with 39 other impressive Canadian contenders for this year’s prestigious Polaris Prize.

The Polaris is awarded annually to the best full-length Canadian Album, based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label. See the entire list here.

Amelia will be performing at Lee’s Palace in Toronto next Thursday, June 17th as part of the Outlaws and Gunslingers Showcase.

Dan MacDonald of the Cape Breton Post reviews Amelia’s “Hunter Hunter”:

It’s an outstanding CD, a relaxing listen, very well produced and recorded. The music in Hunter, Hunter is at times simple and basic, at times bouncy and bright, but it’s always creative and very, very good.

Click here to read the entire review.

Sit in with Amelia Curran, Dallas Green, Alex Cuba, and others for part two of the Juno Songwriters’ Circle from the Arts and Culture Centre in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Click here to listen/download.  Click here for more photos & coverage of the event at thescope.ca

Photo by Mark Bennett @ The Scope.ca

“…[O]ver the years I’ve made a lot of jokes about the back of a toilet being a great place for an award,” Amelia tells the Vancouver Sun. So what is she going to do with her Juno (for Roots & Traditional album; solo)? At this point, she’s not so sure. “I sort of feel like leaving it at Fred’s Records [in St. John’s] because it’s just so special. Tony Plowman manages the record store and he and I are very, very good friends and he was first encouraged me to record music and to keep writing so many years ago.”

Amelia receives the Juno for Roots and Traditional Album Of The Year in her hometown, St Johns.