Penny Lang

Penny Lang is one of the few singers today that evokes thundering accolades that go far beyond the customary comments made about artists. As fellow Montréal singer-songwriter Jesse Winchester once remarked, “I first heard Penny sing at the Montreal Folk Workshop..I heard passion, I heard vulnerability, and I heard complete candor about pretty much everything.”

Lang’s eighth album, Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky, on Borealis Records caps a remarkable four decade career during which this delightful  singer-guitarist has evolved from being a coffeehouse draw in her Montreal hometown to being one of Canada’s leading roots-based artists. Throughout her career, the fiercely unconventional Lang has played for the fishermen in Newfoundland; the farmers in Alberta; Prisoners on Vancouver Island; Children in schools across Canada; and played to audiences in coffeehouses and festivals throughout North America. She has also toured Australia, Italy, Denmark, France and the United Kingdom. Lang is also the subject of a 1999 documentary “Stand Up: On High Ground with Penny Lang” by Jocelyne Clarke. In 2003, she received the first Prix Folqui awarded by Folquébec.