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From the Promoter

Orit Shimoni spends most of her time on the road in Canada and Europe. With four albums behind her as Little Birdie, a name she's used during her career until recently, she is launching her new CD at an early show at the Dakota Tavern Friday September 19.
She has been writing and performing her own material for well over a decade. Raised between Calgary and Jerusalem, and currently based — albeit temporarily — in both Toronto and Montreal, she spends most of her time on the road in Canada and Europe.
Performing as Little Birdie in Montreal she released her first two albums there, Cinematic Way, and I Left the City Burning, which received strong support. (The first was listed in the Top 3 Canadian albums of the year on CBC Radio’s Fresh Air, alongside Arcade Fire and Feist; the second was in the Top 5 on the folk charts for three consecutive months.)
From Montreal, Shimoni moved to Berlin, where she wrote and recorded her third album, Sadder Music, Live in Berlin. Since then, she has opted to live on and for the road, living out of a suitcase with no fixed address and touring solo full-time in true troubadour fashion, often working with local musicians she meets on her path. She released her fourth album, a solo acoustic collection entitled Bare Bones, in 2012 and now her fifth, recorded in Toronto, is being launched on her travels.
Her roving background includes graduate work in theological studies at Concordia University (her thesis is titled Symbolic Structure in Ethics, Language and Revelation), and she has written four children's' stories. That said, she's been living on the road since she left university and has mastered the art of living out of a suitcase, booking bus, train and plane tickets (she doesn't drive), and getting used to new towns, new venues and new audiences on a daily basis.
Shimoni's music easily crosses genres — she can be an acoustic folk songwriter, a powerful cabaret artist, a protest singer and a woman who can relate to the blues, all often in a single set.

Her music has resonated with CBC Radio, and the new record is already being played on CBC on shows including Saturday Night Blues and Fresh Air