Char Seawell |
Early life and music career
Seawell spent her early years as a songwriter and singer performing at various concerts at military bases in California, Frankfurt, Germany and Japan.[3] She learned to play five instruments - the violin, saxophone, bassoon, drums and guitar. Later her family moved to Colorado and Wyoming where she continued performing with local country-rock bands Silverton Station and The Tailgate Orchestra. She became a semi-finalist in the American Song Festival and won numerous awards in the Colorado Composers Classic. She was also a finalist at the Colorado/Wyoming Battle of the Bands.
Seawell later moved to Pacific Northwest where she was introduced to Tim Seawell, a singer and guitarist, through Musicians’ Association of Seattle and they got married in 1986. Later she was joined by her husband and the duo formed a band called Windfall. The band has released four albums and over 40 singles under the folk music genre.
In 2019, Seawell worked on a musical docudrama called Assam Skies which is a collaborative music project featuring musicians and artists from four countries including Karen Weed (poet) and Alice Banting from UK, Jim Ankan Deka from India, and Lain Heringman from Spain.[4][5]
Albums
- Poet of Stones (2018)
- Best days of my life (2015)
- Life happens (2015)
- Prayers of the blue and gray (2012)
Single compositions
- Assam Skies (featuring Jim Ankan Deka and Karen Weed) (2019)
- I will ever praise you (2019)
- Father and daughter (2019)
- Secret (2019)
- Baby, won't you dance with me (2019)
- Notice the rainbow (2019)
- Stone and wood (2019)
- Bring on the Snow (2018)
- Turn in to Me (2018)
- Shores of Italy (2016)
- If I Would've Known (2014)
- Move Into the Light (2008)
- Ladies of cullpeper (2002)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Bothell folk duo Windfall to play show benefitting foster kids, Heraldnet.com
- ↑ All about music: Schedule of concerts around Snohomish County, Heraldnet.com
- ↑ Char Seawell - ChaiTunes artist, Musicmalt.com
- ↑ Assam Skies - a collaborative musical docudrama, Music Malt
- ↑ An English poet writes a powerful poem depicting the life of her great-grandmother from Assam, OK North East