An In Depth Interview with Sunday Wilde
Sunday is from the wilds of a northern Ontario small town, but she has been found singing everywhere from small logging and mining towns at coffee houses, funeral parlors, and blues joints and all the way to large festivals, house concerts and bars in bustling metropolises.
She has won jazz and blues awards for her original compositions, and has been ranked as high as:
#1 on the Global Blues Charts on AirplayDirect & #22 Alltime Blues Albums
#7 on the Roots Music Report for the top 50 Blues Albums,
#6 on the Roots music report for radio play in Canada,
#3 for Blues Albums on THEEX,
#1 for BluES Albums CKuW
#15 for Roots & Blues on EARSHOT national charts.
She has received her FOURTH Ontario Arts Council Award for her work in songwriting and recording. Music from her latest release plays worldwide on many blues and roots stations. One of her songs “THAT man Drives me Mad” has been nominated for the 10th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best Blues Song of 2011 and has won the Voters choice Award in that category. The award winning song has been included in the Big City Rhthym and Blues Magazine August CD sampler.
She has played with such great performers Ronnie Hayward, Nick Moss and the Flipflops, Fathead, Terry Wilkins (Roughtrade), Little Miss Higgins, David West, to name a few.
Her influences come from a array of sources such as the wilderness, Ruth Brown, pain, suffering, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, grief, heartbreak, Bessie Smith, Big Bill Broonzy, mixed in with love, joy, Tom Waits, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.
She continues to create, explore, interpret and innovate, melding divergent styles and influences, pushing the envelope of her craft further. All the while enthralling audiences with her live performances and singular style.
What man!??? oh THAT man!!! New Release
NOW ON CDBABY – https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/
Sunday wildes third album What Man?! Oh THAT man !!! launched out of the wilds of northern Ontario. All but one of the tunes are original blues and jazz that cover a range of heartfelt emotions such as grief, anger, torment, sadness, frustration and many other side effects of love and grief.
The album features Rockabilly Hall of famer and crazy jazz cat Ronnie Hayward (Ronnie Artur, Ronnie Hayward Trio, The Nervous Fellas) on gut stringed upright bass. Ronnies superb edgy feel on bass gives the entire album an authentic rooted sound. Equally unique in his addition is David West, internationally renowned guitarist that has been featured on Rez Blues TV and tours worldwide with the Papa Duke Band (Ukraine) David plays a custom double sided guitar and is Ecuadorian, and his musical intricacies on a variety of guitars throughout this album add a modern, international and old world sound.
The album kicks off with a forceful dirty honky tonk blues That man drives me mad A song that all of us can relate to when we are in love, as love tends to drive us mad now and then. Sunday sings, moans and sighs that love madness that we have all felt.
Sundays midnight blues, a slow jazz blues tune – no matter what walk of life or circumstance we exist in, no one in the world is immune to the midnight blues. My Babys Dead a crazy gypsy blues tune about a womans nightmare after losing her baby is angst ridden and full of power. The final track on the cd Time To Say goodbye a hauntingly sad blues tune, about that time in ones life, as we all have, to move on, and in order to that we have to say goodbye in our hearts.
She is currently working on her fourth album, and has recently been awarded an Ontario Arts Council grant.
