evalyn parry is an award-winning spoken word artist, songwriter and theatre creator. Her solo and collaborative performances have taken her to music, storytelling, poetry and theatre festivals from coast to coast of North America, and she has released 3 critically acclaimed CDs of music and spoken word (Small Theatres, on Borealis Records) as well as a live concert DVD and several video poems. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award (Ontario Arts Council), The Beth Ferguson Award and nomination for the KM Hunter Award for Music (Ontario Arts Council). Her newest creation is a show entitled SPIN (a music-and-spoken-word-cycle which explores the connections between bicycles, women and advertising) which will be touring in the summer of 2010, starting with the 2010 Sound Symposium in St John’s Newfoundland.

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