Who: Coco Love Alcorn
What: all you need is love
Where: Vancouver, BC
To Contact: Black Hen Music Box 74661 Kitsilano, Vancouver, BC V6K 4P4 (604) 224 5717; info@blackhenmusic.com; www.cocolovealcorn.com

Vancouver singer Coco Love Alcorn inherited her musical prowess from father, Toronto-based jazz singer/pianist John Alcorn, only her instrument of choice is acoustic guitar. Over the years, she has opened for Chantal Kreviazuk, Ani DiFranco, and Jesse Cook; played on Sarah McLachlan’s Lilith Fair and Blue Rodeo’s Stardust Picnic, and sung back-up and toured with 54.40. Believe it or not, this album, Sugar, is her first all-original collection and it’s a blend of jazz, pop and folk that serves her beautiful voice. Writing a half-dozen of the songs herself (including the lead track, “For Just One Night”), four with her dad, one with Lennie Gallant, and a couple with other people, Alcorn sums up the lyrics as being about “love, angels, and the power within.” Her dad did some preproduction, and the whole album was produced and engineered by Steve Dawson mostly at Vancouver’s The Factory. The core musicians are Chris Gestrin (k-os, Kate Hammett-Vaughn) on keys, John Raham (Kinnie Starr, The Be Good Tanyas) on drums and Keith Lowe (Fiona Apple, Bill Frisell) on string bass, with Dawson on lap steel, acoustic and electric guitars, banjo and other stuff, but Sugar is always about Coco.

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