Name Janette Geri | ||
Role Singer · myspace.com/janettegeri and reverbnation.com/janettegeri Albums Janette Geri, Telling Tales, Describing the Sky, The Bastard’s Daughter, Rising, Secret of the West Wind People also search for Michael Atkinson, Carl Holroyd Profiles |
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Janette Geri is an Australian singer-songwriter. Her style, sometimes compared to Joni Mitchell's, incorporates Celtic, soul, jazz-blues and folk music. She has performed with international artists including Jean Paul Wabotai, Abdul TJ Rokoto, The Fureys and Maria Forde.
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Geri's compositions "The Return" and "Olliebod's Jig" (written with Mykl Losin) featured on the Celtic Paradise (Best of International Celtic Artists) album, and "The Return" was selected for inclusion on the ABC Airplay album vol.1 in 1998 This album was designed to collect some of the sought after and hard-to-find songs heard on ABC Local Radio and make them available to ABC listeners. Its success led to the annual release of ABC Airplay CDs. In Christmas 2009, Janette's “Dragonfly” from The Bastard's Daughter has been recorded on a double cd put together for charity by Rob Davies who organises the Ryedale Live music shows in North Yorkshire, UK.She and co-writer Mykl Lozin jointly won The Best Fiddle Composition Award Australia and NZ for their fiddle tune "Olliebod's Jig" at the Australian Inaugural Golden Fiddle Awards in 2005. She has performed at the Melbourne Concert Hall, Melbourne's Continental Cafeand the Port Fairy Folk Festival.
Geri's music has been played on ABC radio and international radio stations. She performed live on Bert Newton's Good Morning Australia and the Ernie Sigley show.
In September 2008, Geri commenced her first UK tour.
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Albums
Songs
For Joy
Cowsong (The Bonny Cow)
Lovely Willy
No Kindness
The Return
Olliebod’s Jig
The Turning
Rising
Lord Franklin
Oh Love
The Horses
The Eclipse
Greater Voices
Not Where You Are
Raven Song
Sure I Could Fly
The Dancers
Walk Away
Song for the Singer
Little Wing
Crazy Man Michael
Brave Heart
Canadee-Ioh
The Water Is Wide
I - Pythia
El Cielo
Back in the Shadows
Darker Land
Feels Like Home
How Long
Windsong
In the Air