Amanda Rheaume - Light Of Another Day (2011)

Amanda Rheaume returns to her folk roots with the pending summer release of “Light of Another Day” Amanda has been on a blistering pace for the past two years. She’s toured Canada and the United States extensively. She’s performed for Canadian troops in Afghanistan, Dubai and Alert, Nunavut. Amanda was to perform at the Canadian Embassy in Honduras but spent Canada Day holed up inside a hotel room when President Manuel Zelaya was forced into exile after the country's military seized control in a political coup.

"Light of Another Day" is an acoustic-based LP, focused on positive energy and moving forward. Themes of hope, community and new beginnings are reflected in the lyrics of songs that are stripped-down in a way that Amanda describes as coming full circle as she really finds her sound and writing style again.

Highly regarded by her peers, Amanda Rheaume has dedicated herself as a key performer in Babes for Breasts since its inception and has helped raise thousands of dollars to help fight breast cancer across Canada. Her Acoustic Christmas album sold 6300 copies and raised more than $30,000 for the Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa.

If you’ve been to major music events like SXSW in Austin, Texas, CMW and NXNW or Ottawa Bluesfest, you’ve probably seen her. If you’re fans of the Sadies, Doc Walker, or K'Naan, Jeff Beck and The Black Keys, you’re probably aware she has opened for them. And in between all that she has managed to co-write music with Holly McNarland, Chantal Kreviazuk, Jeff Pearce, and Brian Byrne. A lot of this activity began just two years ago with the EP release, “Kiss Me Back” recorded by Jeff Dawson in Vancouver.

The experiences of life on the road and performing on major stages help craft the words on “Light of Another Day” but Amanda can’t write on the road. The title is a line from the song Push On, which is a story about the soldiers in Afghanistan and their families back home. She told a reporter recently, “I remember feeling like I just wanted to purge all of these pent up repressed or lingering feelings/demons and then I also remember feeling like I wanted to write about hope and positivity because that is what I felt in my heart from touring and doing what I really love to do - playing music for a living. In my travels and own life experiences over the last two years I've witnessed such strength and resilience in the human spirit. Times are tough, there are bad things happening all over the world, things we can't control yet no matter what we have to push on and stick together and find the light of another day. The whole record has themes of hope, community and new beginnings and I wanted to portray that in the title.”

A release of the album to radio stations across Canada will coincide with tours to the East and West Coast of Canada and into the US in early 2012.

Amanda Rheaume’s musical journey has taken her to Lilith Fair, alongside Sarah McLachlan, the Dixie Chicks, Indigo Girls and Sheryl Crow. Her music has spanned the musical landscape of rock, pop, folk, and roots. She has returned to her roots and what makes all this extraordinary is that “Light of Another Day” is Amanda Rheaume’s first full length album. The next two years hold the prospect of many positive adventures ahead.