Georgette Fry

Georgette Fry was born into a Canadian Armed Forces family in St. Jerome, Quebec and spent the first 20 years of her life regularly moving around to such places as Metz France), Lahr (Germany) and Ottawa, Ontario. Having arrived in Kingston, Ontario in 1975 from Ottawa, Georgette joined her first band a year later and, except for a seven-year stint in London, Ontario (1987-1994), she insists on calling Kingston 'home'. Georgette began writing songs while living in London and arrived back in Kingston in November of 1994, bringing with her a recording grant from the Ontario Arts Council. This brought about the release of her Juno-nominated, debut album "Rites of Passage" in 1995. Her second release, recorded by CBC for "Saturday Night Blues", "Georgette - Live" earned her: the Jazz Report Award for Blues Musician of the Year and two Real Blues Magazine Awards for Best Canadian Blues Vocalist (1997, 1998). Georgette is also a talented songwriter and was awarded another grant from the Ontario Arts Council in 1998, this time in recognition of her songwriting abilities. Seven of the 12 tracks on her third release, "Let Me Drive", are Fry originals. "I was starting to run out of tun... more...