Nancy White

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Nancy White is a Canadian singer-songwriter, whose topical and humorous songs were a regular feature on CBC Radio from 1976 to 1994 on the public affairs show Sunday Morning".

White's most famous songs include "Leonard Cohen's Never Gonna Bring My Groceries In", "Stickers on Fruit", "Jesus at Tim's", "Moose on the Highway", "River Mend My Heart", "Love in Wartime" , "Daughters of Feminists", "No More Multitasking", and "Someone Handed Me the Moon".

She was one of the writers (with Bob Johnston and Jeff Hochhauser) of the musical Anne & Gilbert, based on the Lucy Maud Montgomery books Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island. The show premiered at the Victoria Playhouse in Victoria, Prince Edward Island in the summer of 2005, and has been produced at the Jubilee Theatre in Summerside for two summers, and in Gananoque, Ontario at the Thousand Islands Playhouse in 2007. It had an amateur production in Lethbridge, Alberta, also in 2007, at Catholic Central High School.

She was formerly married to the composer and keyboardist Doug Wilde. Their daughters, Suzy and Maddy Wilde, are also singers, Suzy in the glamfolk band StoneFox and Maddy in the indie rock band Spiral Beach.

White was born in PEI, educated in Halifax, and hardened in Toronto. She and her three brothers (Gordon, James and William) were all born in leap years. She has a BA in English from Dalhousie University.

[edit] Discography

  • Civil Service Songwriter
  • Sort of Political
  • What Should I Wear to the Revolution (1982)
  • Unexpected (1983)
  • The Sunday Morning Tapes (1984)
  • Unimpeachable (1987)
  • Bimbolandia (1988)
  • Momnipotent: Songs for Weary Parents (1990, Mouton)
  • Pumping Irony (1993, CBC/Mouton)
  • Homely for the Holidays (1994)
  • Songs of the Spanish Civil War (1994)
  • Gaelic Envy and Other Torch Songs (1998, Borealis)
  • Unexpected (CD re-release 2001, Borealis)
  • Stickers on Fruit (2002, Borealis)

Compilations: Canoesongs, Volume One, Canoesongs, Volume Two, The World's Greatest Hockey Hits, Volume One.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Topical Punch: Saucy Songs by Nancy White (Toronto 1986)

[edit] External links

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