Christine Crawford returns to Osprey with new CD

A long-time Osprey favourite, Christine Crawford, returns on Friday, Nov. 28 to launch her latest CD. "The Osprey is a sentimental favourite," says Crawford.

She'll be playing with Shelburners Robbie Smith and Kathleen Glauser.

An Antigonish native, Christine (MacIsaac) Crawford has been honing her songwriting craft for ten years. After having her own original compositions featured in films and receiving a Music Nova Scotia nomination for Female Recording of the Year, she is celebrating the release of her third CD.

Crawford’s grandmother, Flora MacIsaac, was an up and coming award- winning Gaelic chanteuse living in Scotland before she married Tando MacIsaac and re-located to Guysborough County. Exposed to a family of musicians, naturally Christine’s earliest influence was traditional Celtic music. She first began performing with her family in Antigonish and later played in a folk band as well as a traditional Celtic group called Jug in Hand. During these early years in Antigonish she shared the stage with the Barra MacNeils, Dave Gunning and Mary Jane Lammond.

After hooking up with producer Tim Feswick in 2002, Crawford recorded her debut album of 10 original tracks entitled "Rowing in Eden" which was nominated for Music Nova Scotia's Female Recording of the Year. It wasn't only the music industry who took notice as the title track was eventually featured on a Fox film starring Christina Applegate the following year. Featured as Artist of the Week on CBC's Atlantic Airwaves, Rowing in Eden went on to enjoy international radio play as far a field as Northern Ireland, Australia, Hawaii, Alaska, and New York.

With a keen interest in the film industry established, Crawford wrote a song, custom cut, for the Trailer Park Boy's Christmas movie. She and producer, Feswick, pitched the cheeky tune "Plutonium Love" to director Mike Clattenburg and the 'boys' loved it. They picked it up for the film and eventually the cast lip-synced her tune on stage at the film's screening. Crawford and Feswick went to work to write nine more experimental tunes under the working name "Bigcheese.ca" and released a full length album entitled "Plutonium Love".

Tickets for the show are $15.