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Wednesday, March 22, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Caitlin Canty returns for concert
By Ceili Cornelius
Correspondent
Singer-songwriter Caitlin
Canty returns to Sisters for
her third time for the last
installment of the Winter
Concert Series. Rose Cousins
will also be performing on
Thursday, March 23 at Sisters
High School.
Canty is an Americana/
blues/folk artist from small-
town Vermont. She now lives
in East Nashville, Tennesee.
This is Canty’s third visit
to Sisters. She came for the
Winter Concert Series along-
side Darlingside last year, and
participated in the Sisters Folk
Festival’s Americana Song
Academy at Camp Caldera.
“It’s awesome to be around
other song-loving people in
such a lovely setting, I’m
always willing to talk to
someone about music or song-
writing because it is an art,”
said Canty.
She also then came as a
solo performer for the Sisters
Folk Festival.
“I love Sisters; it’s always
nice to return,” she said. “This
tour is the major metropo-
lis tour, so it’s nice to come
to Sisters, you’ve got a great
theme there with the folk fes-
tival and Americana Project.
It’s always on the list when
I play Portland, Seattle, and
other cities in the Northwest
and California.”
Music had always been
a hobby of Canty’s, but she
worked in the sustainabil-
ity field at a desk job with
Great hair
doesn’t happen
by chance.
It happens
the clean-tech company
GreenOrder before decid-
ing music is what she wanted
to do. She had never antici-
pated becoming a full-time
musician.
She took a songwriting
class in college and fell in
love with the art. During her
time working in sustainabil-
ity, she found that she “didn’t
have enough time to develop
my art, and music became a
powerful force in my life,” so
she quit her job and pursued
music.
“It’s dangerous to make
your passion your job,” said
Canty.
She dove into the singer-
songwriter career, which can
be hard to break into. Once
she found her perfect trusty
guitar, which she still travels
with, she knew she couldn’t
give it up.
“I fell in love with songs
and songwriting,” she said.
Canty loves to travel —
which is a big part of her job
— and believes that travelling
and seeing the world can help
songwriters with their craft
and can help someone become
a more empathetic person and
reflect all they see in their
songs.
Canty has her own mea-
sure of success: “I think any
musician is happy when they
get to do what they want
to do, which is tell stories
through song.”
The greatest advice Canty
could give to up-and-coming
musicians is to “build a good
life, and travel and explore in
different ways to hone your
craft and have life experience
to portray in songs.”
Canty then quoted the late
writer and poet Jim Harrison,
a quote she has lived her life
by: “To write a poem you
must first create a pen that
will write what you want to
say. For better or for worse,
this is the work of a lifetime.”
Canty believes this encap-
sulates what artists must do in
order to write their story —
have a life that will tell it for
them through the paper and
pen.
Canty is now working on
sequencing her upcoming full-
length album, set to drop in
August. She is touring music
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Caitlin Canty will play in Sisters on Thursday.
from “Reckless Skyline” and
her EP, “Lost in the Valley.”
This third and final install-
ment of the 2017 Winter
Concert Series kicks off at
Sisters High School at 7 p.m.
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