Sara Ciantar

This evening a small group of us (B, B, K, C, H, R and Me) went to support my cousin Sara Ciantar and listen to her band play at Cameron House! Sara is part of our west influence on the Bryce side (lives in BC)...and throughout the years I have always referred Sara as my cousin who is musically gifted! (super gifted) It always amazing me the talent she has (and the lack of music talent i have...besides singing in the car...I'm quite good there! ha!)...and tonight she was nothing short of excellent! She definitely played my kind of tunes! Just a little bit about her: Some refer to it as "small town": it's not urban folk and it's not country, but maybe somewhere in between with a little bit of everything in it. Sara's music is drawn from her myriad of influences: from learning classical piano while living on a hippie farm and listening to her parents' 70’s folk records; to studying world music at UBC (where she learned to play the accordion, the pipe organ, a Chinese lap-harp kinda thing, Balinese xylophone, and she even sang a little jazz among other things); to being lulled to sleep by the sound of Mexican wedding music in the slums of Tijuana; to the beauty of church and choral traditions; to her humble guitar's yearnings while living in her camper van for her formative years. She has sang and played accordion with the likes of Ari Neufeld, Barnaby McRae of Cowboys and Indians, and James Lamb of Wicker Robot, and is having fun singing rootsy traditionals in a girly trio (that has yet to be named). In the end she's got a story to tell with her ever-changing mood and voice.
check out www.saraciantar.com for more information and to listen to some of her tracks! 2 of my favs are: South America and Highway 5
ps. so proud of you Sara! you're amazing...miss ya! xo
pps. my bed is screaming my name! night night!