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Intelligent. Elegant. Fragile and Fierce. 

 

Bunny Brown grew up near Niagara Falls in the leafy but sleepy city of St. Catharines, Canada, then known for its abundance of canal locks and donut shops. Directly after high school Bunny ran away to Ottawa where she played keyboards in a glam-punk-synth-rock band around the capital city and Montreal area. Upon returning to “St. Kitts” a couple of years later, Bunny met multi-disciplinary artist Michael D'Amico and became one half of their quirksome  alt-pop duo Happy As Hell. It was chosen as one of Musician Magazine's Best Unsigned Bands by judges including Chrissie Hynde and Bootsy Collins.

                              

                                       

Now living in lively but insomnia-inducing Toronto, Bunny released her debut CD as a solo artist in 2004 with Tomorrow The World (Persist Music)  - an inventive and deftly crafted collection of touched and touching tunes - after circulating the well received introductory 4-song EP, Meet Bunny Brown. 

 

A critics’ pick in Toronto’s North By Northeast music festival, Bunny always wins  audiences with her live shows. Whether performing solo, accompanied by Michael D'Amico, or fronting a full band, Bunny's intimate and intense style,  rich, soaring voice, provocative lyrics and infectious melodies are irresistibly powerful.

 

 

She has played on soundtracks for films that have aired on various networks, and shared the stage with and guested on recordings by many other artists (Ron Sexsmith, Kyp Harness, Holly McNarland, Art Bergmann, Lily Frost, Mendelson Joe...)

 

Bunny appears in Alan Zweig's documentary film I, Curmudgeon (his follow-up to the critically-acclaimed cult favorite film, Vinyl) with an oddball assortment including humourist Fran Lebowitz, musician Mark Eitzel (American Music Club), actor and former kid in the hall Scott Thompson, comics writer Harvey Pekar (American Splendor) and a fleeting Andy Rooney (60 Minutes). 

 

Music for her second CD is currently being recorded and Bunny has several writing projects in the works.                            

                              contact: info@bunnybrown.com 

  

 

"You can tell by Tomorrow The World's first notes that Bunny really loves what she is doing... a high energy protest song can turn into a nice ballad then bounce right back without any gracelessness… like a less damaged Marianne Faithful… a ’60s girl group but much more sullen than Phil Spector could have squeezed out of anybody.”

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“Bunny Brown has some    pretty awesomely crafted songs on Tomorrow The World - catchy guitar riffs, great vocal lines, fun phrasing. Brown’s voice works in every register and at any volume... This one’s 

virtually perfect.”      

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“… Free Toronto - the best song about Toronto this decade… You’ll probably hook in immediately to what she’s talking about if you’ve ever felt under siege by the inexorable forces of conformity.”

 

           TORONTO STAR