Canadian singer/songwriter Tara MacLean (Shaye) has been an internationally renowned and award winning recording and touring artist for over 25 years.
She is excited to be releasing her first book, Song of the Sparrow, with HarperCollins on March 14th – a brutally honest look back at the obstacles she overcame over her life and lengthy musical career so far. Pre-order here.
The companion soundtrack to the memoir, Sparrow, will be released on March 31st, produced by Daniel Ledwell (Fortunate Ones, Good Lovelies, Jenn Grant). Pre-save here.
Some artists move past songs and never look back. By contrast, Tara mines them for fresh inspiration to put her life in perspective and, more importantly, to find ways to inspire, help, and heal others. At the core, that’s the commonality between ten songs on Sparrow, a beautiful reimagining of songs drawn from MacLean‘s extensive catalogue and new material like the album’s title track.
But Sparrow is far more than a retrospective. It finds the PEI-based singer/songwriter looking forward with optimism and dwelling on the transformative power of music rather than the pain and loss that inspired some of the songs she revisits.
The title track, “Sparrow,” is actually the thesis for the whole book. It offers up the idea that nothing is unforgivable – though a lofty concept; it’s the bird’s eye view that Tara is trying to see the world with these days.
Singer/songwriter Catherine MacLellan directs the “Sparrow” video, whose father toured with Tara‘s father as a duo for twenty years.
Watch the official music video: