Jeff Staflund

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Jeff Staflund
Background information
Born	February 11, 1968 (1968-02-11) (age 40)
Origin	Weyburn, Saskatchewan
Genre(s)	Singer-Songwriter
Instrument(s)	Vocals, Piano
Years active	1991–present

Jeff Staflund (born on February 11, 1968 in Weyburn, but raised in Lanigan, Saskatchewan) is a singer-songwriter and pianist currently living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has released four bilingual albums (French and English) and performs mostly in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. His music has been compared to that of Jackson Browne.^[1]

Jeff currently works in Winnipeg as a French-English translator. He also works as a dance accompanist and is an occasional jury member for various music competitions. For up-to-date information on where you can obtain copies of his recordings and where he is performing next, visit his Web page at www.myspace.com/jeffstaflund.

Contents 1 Awards and Accomplishments 2 Discography 2.1 Plénitude 2.2 Trust, Believe and Follow 2.3 Ma nature 2.4 Colour and Rain 2.5 Other 3 Television Appearances 4 References

[edit] Awards and Accomplishments

In 1991, he won the CKSB Phonogramme competition for best original French-language song in Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario and the title of best singer-songwriter at the Gala manitobain de la chanson, which toook place in Winnipeg.

Five years later, in 1996, he won best singer-songwriter at the Gala fransaskois de la chanson in Regina, Saskatchewan. At the Gala interprovincial de l'Ouest (now called Chant’Ouest) in June of the same year, he won "audience favourite," the French press award and the SOCAN award for best song.

He is a founding member of The Rainbow Harmony Project (1999). The choir performed one of his songs at an international gay and lesbian choral festival in Montreal in 2004 (MP3: Le vent d’été).

On March 19, 2004, he performed at the Studio-théâtre de la Place des Arts in Montréal as part of a series entitled Ma première Place des Arts.

In 2004, he was nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award in the category Outstanding Francophone Recording.^[2].

[edit] Discography

[edit] Plénitude

In 1999, Jeff released his first album called Plénitude. The album consisted of nine French-language tracks.

1. "Le vent d'été"
2. "Marie"
3. "De mon balcon"
4. "Sylvie"
5. "Un beau matin"
6. "Cet hiver"
7. "Le dimanche matin"
8. "Les saisons"
9. "Sans toi"

[edit] Trust, Believe and Follow

In 2003, his second album, Trust, Believe and Follow, was produced by Hospice and Palliative Care Manitoba as a fundraiser. This time, most of the songs were in English. The organization's website introduces the album by saying “Jeff is a gifted artist whose music has the potential to be used in many ways for personal reflection, as centering music, bereavement and therapeutic group settings and educational workshops."^[3]

1. "Loss" (instrumental)
2. "When Heart Speaks"
3. "Not How Long the Road Is"
4. "Reflection" (instrumental)
5. "On a Journey"
6. "Fall"
7. "Light" (instrumental)
8. "Find Your Anchor"
9. "Courage"
10. "Joy" (instrumental)
11. "Time to Reach this Place"
12. "Waiting" (instrumental)

[edit] Ma nature

In 2003, shortly after Trust, Believe and Follow was released, Jeff launched a bilingual album called Ma Nature. A very favourable review of the album, written by Marc Lalonde, was published in French on the Centr@rt website.^[4]

1. "Quand je m'éloigne des prairies"
2. "Window Pain"
3. "Wedding Song"
4. "Quand la nuit tombe sur les plaines"
5. "Ma nature"
6. "Lettre à un neveu"
7. "Courage"
8. "Nostalgique"
9. "Il y a de ces endroits"
10. "Petit bonhomme"
11. "Ce qui restera de nous"
12. "Improvisation for Celeste"
13. "What Beauty Really Is"
14. "Me voilà déjà rendu"
15. "Beautiful Night Sky"

[edit] Colour and Rain

Jeff's fourth album, Colour and Rain, was released on April 6, 2008, in Winnipeg.

1. "Lounge Piano Room"
2. "Earthworm Song"
3. "Viens me rencontrer"
4. "For Such a Long Time Now"
5. "Wondering Soul"
6. "Lord, Hear Me"
7. "Le carcan"
8. "You and I"
9. "Nouveau gazon"
10. "Colour and Rain"

[edit] Other

His songs have appeared on a number of compilations, such as Rado 95^[5] and Fwazon I and II (released as part of the Festival des mots, organized by the DSFM).

[edit] Television Appearances

1998
- Boîte à chansons II hosted by Édith Butler, Winnipeg
- Double étoile with Marie-Michèle Desrosiers, Moncton (aired Saturday, June 19, 1999)^[6]

2000 and 2004
- Télé-Relais, Winnipeg (part of the Festival du Voyageur)

2003, December 9
- A review of Ma nature was presented on ZIG ZAG: "Jeff Staflund est un chansonnier sentimental […] Il a atteint la maturité. Il maîtrise son art, tant au niveau des textes qu'au niveau des arrangements."

[edit] References