A seasoned performer with an ever-growing fan base in North America, Asia and Europe, Hill has garnered wide acclaim for his songwriting skills and ground-breaking approach to the chronically-underestimated ukulele. His latest album is The Old Silo, produced by Joel Plaskett and released on the Borealis label.

Ukulele Slingin’ Songsmith

Equal parts disarming, captivating and mind-boggling. That’s the best way to describe a James Hill performance. Hill is that rare performer whose instrumental virtuosity is matched by “impeccably crafted lyrics” (The Australian) and a strong bond with his audience.

Over the course of his first three genre-defying albums, Hill re-wrote every rule that had previously kept the ukulele in the realm of novelty and obscurity. Then came the Canadian-Folk-Music-Award-winning True Love Don't Weep (Borealis, 2009), his collaboration with cellist/singer Anne Janelle, an album that pushed the budding songwriter into new territory and topped folk radio charts across North America. Since the release of his acclaimed Man With a Love Song in 2011, Hill has become known as much for his songwriting as for his instrumental virtuosity.

Hill’s latest album, The Old Silo, finds him charting a course into deeper, rockier waters with producer Joel Plaskett at the helm. The music has an edginess and swagger unlike anything Hill has ever recorded: the thundering baritone ukulele riff in She's Still Got It would be right at home on a Black Keys single and the grinding slide ukulele in Tie One On would make Jack White proud.

A humble, uncompromising artist who "gives the ukulele its dignity back without ever taking himself – or the instrument – too seriously" (Songlines), James Hill’s music cuts a deep, winding path through Folk, Roots Rock and Americana.

Find out more at www.jameshillmusic.comFind James on Facebook & Twitter: jameshillmusiq

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Selected Past Appearances:

Kennedy Center, Washington, DC

National Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON Winniepg Folk Festival, Winnipeg, MB Calgary Folk Music Festival, Calgary, AB Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Vancouver, BC

Blissfest Music Festival, Cross Village, MI Chorando Sem Parar, São Paulo, Brazil Canadian Embassy Concert Hall, Tokyo, Japan

Theater for the New City, New York, NY Les Trois Baudets, Paris, France Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI Pustervik Theatre, Göteborg, Sweden Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, QC

DBS Auditorium, Singapore Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary, AB The Ark Folk Club, Ann Arbor, MI, USA The Cellar Jazz Club, Vancouver, BC Anthology, San Diego, CA Lotus World Music Festival, Bloomington, IN

With musical partner Anne Janelle (cello, voice)

Raves:

“Possibly the best ukulele player in the world... Hill wowed and charmed the audience.” - Waikato Times

“A serious virtuoso upon the instrument... truly amazing.” - Canadian Folk Music

“A dazzling live performer with a genial, low key sense of humour.” - Edmonton Journal

“The perfect evening of tunes, stories and musical virtuosity. ” - Wellington Dominion-Post