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sold-out concert at Théâtre Port Royal at Place des Arts in
Montreal. After an extended time away from professional life living in Morin Heights, a small village in the Laurentian Mountains where she raised her son Jason, she returned to full-time performing and was welcomed back to an adoring public. She returned to the studio in 1989 and recorded nine well-received albums for the She-Wolf, Festival and Borealis labels and toured Australia, Italy, Denmark, France and the United Kingdom.
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guitar-playing, throaty voice, and most of all by her astonishing ability to connect with the people she was singing to. Lang moved on to become a touring artist, playing major folk festivals like
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Her powerful interpretations and originals in folk, blues, country, and gospel gained her a large and devoted following. Her songs are emotionally powerful observations of the human condition, sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious, mostly memorable. A major highlight of her career was her 1970
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In 1963, at age 21, Lang became a professional folksinger and worked initially at the Café André, a venue near the McGill
University campus, for three years. She quickly became a star on the Montreal folk scene, filling the club every night with a loyal returning audience drawn by her effective
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Penny shared a lifetime's familiarity with folk, blues, gospel and country songs with audiences and friends wherever she went and will be fondly remembered for her work on the concert stage. Her intimate performances were filled with laughter, tears and a bonding with the audience to create a
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Lang was born in 1942 to a musical family in east end
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Penny’s story was the subject of the 1999 documentary Stand Up: On High Ground with Penny Lang by
Jocelyne Clarke, which premiered at the Silver Images Film Festival in Chicago. She received the first Prix Folqui awarded by FOLQUEBEC in 2003.
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hospitals and prisons. In her late teens, Lang got caught up in the folk revival.
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Lang's 2001 album, Gather Honey, was nominated for a JUNO Award.
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