For those of you who love singers, Mandy Lagan is someone you must hear.
Mandy was born in England and raised in Ridgetown, a small town in southwestern Ontario. She studied piano with her mother who was a piano teacher, organist and choir director, and sang in various choirs. She eventually picked up a guitar and figured out enough chords so that she could accompany herself and sing songs she knew, as well as work on her own writing. After graduating from Mohawk College Music Department Mandy went to McMaster University and got her B.A. in music. She began taking herself seriously as a singer in 1990 when she moved out of Hamilton and into Toronto and formed a band in order to work on some of her favourite music as well as her own writing. In 2002 she released her first CD, “I Thought About You”, a collection of jazz standards and two originals. In 2003 she released her second CD, “You See Me”, a selection of five jazz standards and five originals. In 2007 she released her third CD, “Verses”, a collection of Robert Louis Stevenson’s poetry which she collaboratively set to music.
Mandy Lagan – Vocals
Dave Restivo – Piano
Ted Quinlan – Guitar
Jim Vivian – Bass
Nick Fraser – Drums
Mandy sings her original composition “Can’t Sleep”
No video but here is Mandy with lovely version of Joni Mitchel’s “Free Man in Paris”
