City Sonic: Sarah Slean at The Rivoli

Director: Rob Pilichowski, 2009
Sarah Slean was caught between two worlds. The singer/songwriter was studying classical piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music at the University of Toronto, but her pop tendencies were in need of nurture. Only a few blocks away, in the backroom of the Rivoli restaurant and bar, Sarah knew that non-virtuosos were enthralling audiences. As a teenager, she had been slipping into town from her home in Pickering to watch shows by the likes of Hayden and Kurt Swinghammer since she was in high school in Pickering. In this poetic short, the singer reveals how the Conservatory shaped her music education, but how getting to play the Rivoli helped transform her from a frustrated music student into an innovative performer who combines both classical and pop. Featuring exclusive animations of Sarahs visual art and excerpts from her latest recording, The Baroness.
More stuff on the Blog: http://blog.citysonic.tv/category/artists/sarah-slean/

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[Ibucrthis]

How this clip has escaped me for so long is beyond me.

[littleslean]

@skyofsilence "You have got to follow your heart. You can make yourself miserable (f?)or years thinking that you know that is; but that's just the thing. To follow your heart has nothing to do with thinking, it has nothing to do with your brain. You go through this fire to sort of be purified by it to have all the excess and all of the lies you tell yourself you have to have them burned away and then there is the marrow of you, the quick of it, the diamond in the coal." - Sarah Slean

[skyofsilence]

Could someone transcribe for me what she said at the end of the video from "you've got to follow you heart" to the end ?

I love Sarah, even when she speaks it sounds like music !

[justinewart]

: )