Marianne Grittani

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Promo Blurbs of Various Lengths for Your Brochures, E-mail Announcements and Press Releases

The capsule summaries below are provided in plain text format without formatting, and so can be copied directly into your word processor or page layout document with minimal editing. They should be cross-platform clean. We hope the word count will help choose when to use which!

Please see the electronic media note below as well.

19 words

Folky, funky and everything in between. 'A sparkling performer'.
'Great songs, great sound, and a very fine guitar player'.

44 Words

Marianne Grittani is a seasoned writer whose musical personality is deep and wide, and entirely engaging. She performs her well crafted songs, full of both intelligence and soul, with an intimacy and energy that draw comparisons to Shawn Colvin, Sheryl Crow and early Joni.

53 Words

This Vancouver singer songwriter offers up a spirited hybrid of folk, blues, jazz and country. Engagingly warm, intelligent and entirely compelling. She is a sparkling performer and a solid innovative guitar player with a soul stirring voice and powerful well crafted songs. Hear some of them on her debut CD 'Into The shimmering'.

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Marianne is a seasoned writer whose musical personality is deep and wide, and entirely engaging. She performs her well crafted songs, full of both intelligence and soul, with an intimacy and energy that draw comparisons to Shawn Colvin, Sheryl Crow and early Joni. Her debut CD was nominated for a West coast Music Award and is getting international airlplay. A recent career highlight was opening for Grammy Award winning blues artist Guy Davis.

90 words

Marianne is a veteran singer songwriter with an impressive and varied list of influences, reflected in her body of work. She recently recorded her debut CD 'Into the Shimmering' which garnered her a West Coast Music Award nomination, airplay coast to coast on CBC, and the attention of master Blues artist Guy Davis, who invited her to open his Vancouver concert in April. She calls her music 'folky, funky and anything in between'. Whatever the flavour, she delivers it with soulful sincerity and is known as 'a sparkling performer.'

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