{"id":2357,"date":"2021-03-25T11:06:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T17:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2021-03-29T10:42:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:42:35","slug":"where-your-love-lives-recording-session-with-cynthia-hamar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/2021\/03\/25\/where-your-love-lives-recording-session-with-cynthia-hamar\/","title":{"rendered":"“Where Your Love Lives” Recording Session with Cynthia Hamar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We caught up with Bent River Records Songwriting Competition winner Cynthia Hamar at Macewan University Recording Studio, a conversation in which we discussed some of her personal story, inspirations and experiences with MacEwan and Bent River Records. Cynthia Hamar is a M\u00e9tis singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pianist, whose work greatly impressed the jurors and won her the Bent River Records Song Writing Competition with her bluesy folk song, “Where Your Love Lives.” The contest was conceived to honour the generous and ongoing support of one of the label\u2019s significant donors, Dr. Craig Monk, the Provost & Vice-President, Academic at MacEwan. \u201cHaving a leader like Craig Monk who shows so much interest and invests in supporting creative students and projects is deeply inspiring and has encouraged me immensely in my journey as a songwriter and student.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Drayton Valley, Alberta, Cynthia grew up in a musical family and has had a passion for music since an early age. Now Cynthia has recorded three studio albums and is looking forward to making more. \u201cI’ve been writing and playing by ear, at home, in church. I even wrote little songs when I was a kid and stored them in my tape recorder,\u201d Hamar says about the beginnings of her musical journey.  Hamar decided to pursue a bachelor\u2019s degree in Music at Grant MacEwan and has been hoping to use this opportunity to explore her possibilities as an artist further. \u201cIt’s just fun to be around creative people, and all the opportunities are great!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI always say I\u2019m folk, although there are lots of different vibes going on.\u201d Cynthia\u2019s inspirations are multifaceted, from folky singer-songwriters such as Brandi Carlile and Gregory Alan Isakov to more eccentric acts such as Tom Waits and Radiohead. Cynthia herself has difficulty describing her style as her ears are always open for new inspiration! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cWhere Your Love Lives\u201d is such an intimate and personal song, and Cynthia’s writing abilities are strong and on display. Cynthia finds so much value and love in the concept of home, and with her kids now being adults, this song is a chance for her to express her feelings of where love is and how it stays consistent as concepts of home and family change through time. \u201cThe songs that I make that are worth recording or performing are the ones that touch me and make me feel something.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We caught up with Bent River Records Songwriting Competition winner Cynthia Hamar at Macewan University Recording Studio, a conversation in which we discussed some of her personal story, inspirations and experiences with MacEwan and Bent River Records. Cynthia Hamar is a M\u00e9tis singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pianist, whose work greatly impressed the jurors and won her … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"RoboGalleryMansoryImagesCenter":false,"RoboGalleryPreload":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"menu-87.2793x36":false,"menu-36x36":false,"menu-48x48":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"BRR Team","author_link":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/author\/brr-team\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"We caught up with Bent River Records Songwriting Competition winner Cynthia Hamar at Macewan University Recording Studio, a conversation in which we discussed some of her personal story, inspirations and experiences with MacEwan and Bent River Records. Cynthia Hamar is a M\u00e9tis singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pianist, whose work greatly impressed the jurors and won her…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2364,"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions\/2364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}