Forest’s own Emm Gryner is set to go on tour this spring and summer.
Gryner shared the news on social media on Tuesday, February 28, 2023.
Here are the dates:
MAR 30 – STRATFORD, ON Foster’s Inn
APR 15 – LONDON, ON The Aeolian (Album Release Show)
MAY 6 – GRAND BEND, ON Grand Bend Place – Centre for the Living Arts
JUNE 2 – HAMBURG Knust Hamburg
JUNE 4 – LLEIDA, SPAIN ANTARES
JUNE 8 – LONDON, UK Pizza Express
JUNE 16 – NEW YORK, NY City Winery NYC
Gryner announced earlier this month that the London, Ontario date will be an album release show. The performance will also feature special guests The MacKinlays and Michael Holmes.
Emm Gryner is an award-winning singer, songwriter, actor and best-selling author.
Emm sang and played keyboards in David Bowie’s band, and appears on numerous recordings, including his landmark 1999 SNL appearance, Bowie at The Beeb and Toy.
Bowie’s acclaimed Glastonbury 2000 documents her performance in front of more than 100,000 fans at Worthy Farm.
With her own band, she shared arena stages with Def Leppard, and she also helped bring the first music video recorded in outer space to the world.
Her book, “The Healing Power of Singing: Raise Your Voice, Change Your Life (What Touring With David Bowie, Single Parenting and Ditching The Music Business Taught Me in 25 Easy Steps” (ECW Press) released in 2021 became an Amazon bestseller.
Detroit radio formed the soundtrack of Emm’s life and career and her forthcoming record is a celebration of that music.
From Motown, jazz and pop, to Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac and The Doobie Brothers, Business & Pleasure is infused with the sunshine soul and stellar playing of the late 70s and early 80s.
These songs, written with poet Michael Holmes, and recorded with drummer Shannon Forrest (Toto), keyboardist Pat Coil (Michael McDonald), singer Catherine Russell (Steely Dan), and guitarists Tom Bukovac (Taylor Swift) and Pat Buchanan (Hall & Oates, Dolly Parton), embody a take on yacht rock that sails deep into the 2020s and introduce the world to a bold new character: a powerful woman whose passion, presence, conviction, humor and grace serves to unite the world in music, joy and love, once again.
More details at https://www.emmgryner.com/.
