Discography ( * Producer)
Solo, Duet
Ancestral Songs*
Seven Years*
On a Wing and a Prayer*
Collection
Amber Christmas*
The Colour of Amber
Figgy Duff
Figgy Duff
After the Tempest
Weather Out The Storm
Downstream
A Retrospective
Live Silver Reunion*
Further Production Credits
Mark Bragg- The Reckless Kind*
Anita Best-Crosshanded*
Conne Micmaq- Maiwpukek*
Vicky Hynes- Vicky Hynes*
Emile Benoit- Vive la Rose*
Various Artists-The Hare*
Ginny Ryan- Great Wings in Flight*
The Celtic Circle II – BMG UK
Women Of The World Celtic II – Putumayo USA
Celtic Collection – (Figgy Duff) Putumayo USA
Due South – (Figgy Duff) Netwerk USA/Canada
Celtica – A&R Music Italy
Mujeres en la Musica – Resistinca Spain
Magic Mysteries – Sony Germany
Celtic Christmas Songs – Sony Germany
A Woman's Heart – Demon Music UK
Celtic Spirits II – Sony Germany
Celtic Spirits III – Sony Germany
Rendez Vous on the Jazz Boulevard – Universal Poland
Celtic Feelings – Sony France
Celtic Spirits IV – Sony Germany
Celtic Spirits V – Sony Germany
Celtic Spirits VI – Sony Germany
Irish Greats – BMG Germany
Mystic Spirits Vol. VIII – ZYX Germany
Celtic Feelings – Sony Germany
Celtic Spirits IX – Sony Germany
Celtic Feelings – Sony Holland
Celtic Dreams – BMG Germany
Silent spirits Vol.2 – XYX, Germany
Secret Spirits Vol 1 – Sony, Germany
Mystic Spirits Vol 12 – ZYX, Germany
Silent Spirits, Vol 2 – ZYX, Germany
Ultimate Celtic Collection – (Tesco) Crimson, UK.
Eleven Eleven – Independent, NL
Another Time – Pigeon Inlet, NL
My Sister Sings – Independent, NS
Celtic Colours Independent, NS
All The Best – Various Artists
Close To The Floor – (Figgy Duff) Pigeon Inlet, NL
World Tour Celtic Myths – Sony Music Entertainment
Celtic Ring Vol. 1 – Sony Music Entertainment
Celtic Circle I – Sony Music Entertainment
Magic Mysteries 2 – Sony, Germany
Celtic Voices – The Reader's Digest Association Limited
On a Wing and a Prayer (Taiwan Export) – Jingo Records
A Woman Behind the Door (Taiwan Export) – Jingo Records
Canadian East Coast Style Roots – East Coast Music Association
The Rough Guide to the Music of Canada – World Music Network
Rock of the Rock Millennium – Asphalt Playground Records
On a Wing and a Prayer (Japan Export) – Belle Antique
Celtic Myst Top 100 – Universal Music
Variety Recordings 9 – CBC Radio Variety
Happy Valley Festival – Fabian James Promotions
Les Grands Success De La Musique – Musicor Distribution
Weather Out the Storm (Japan Export) – Alpha Records Inc.
Mystic Dreamtime – Sony Music Entertainment
The Christmas Wish – Avalon Music Ltd.
Mystic Spirits Vol. 9 – Various Artists
Rendez-Vous on the Jazz Boulevard –Universal Music Polska
Irish Greats – Ariola Express
Best of Keltica – Sony, Germany
Jingo Compilation – Jingo Records
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Short Bio
For 19 years, Pamela Morgan was lead singer, guitarist, and arranger for Canada’s pioneering “Celtic” band, Newfoundland’s Figgy Duff, who brought the traditional music of Newfoundland to the world stage.
Since then, Pamela has been spearheading her own independent record label, Amber Music, producing music for NL's finest roots artists, including three of her own solo CDs, and licensing tracks to various labels worldwide.
In recent years, she has represented Canada at Expo in Japan, toured extensively in England, Canada, the US and Europe, and overseen productions of two original scores for live theater; her own folk opera, “The Nobleman's Wedding”, and Figgy Duff's score for Shakespeare's "Tempest".
In 2007 she received an honorary doctorate from Memorial University, and in 2008 embarked upon a different journey, studying Graphic Design at the College of the North Atlantic. She continues to write, arrange, perform, and tour in her own highly original and hauntingly beautiful style.
Full Biography
Pamela Morgan, former lead singer for and one of the original members of folk/rock innovators Figgy Duff, has been a leading performer in the Celtic music scene for the over thirty years. For nineteen years, Pamela and Figgy Duff grew famous for their strikingly original and beautiful arrangements of traditional Newfoundland/Celtic material as well as their equally impressive and powerful original material. At the forefront was Morgan's haunting and mesmerizing voice-
"...powerful, shimmering..."
"...a voice that lifts you up and lays you down on a bed of thoughts and dreams"
"...gorgeous, dusky singing"
Pamela and the other core Figgy Duff member, founder Noel Dinn, led the band through the production of six albums, several videos and countless tours throughout North America and Europe; taking Figgy Duff from local innovators to a powerful international presence in the burgeoning worldwide folk/Celtic scene.
Before Noel Dinn's untimely death in 1993, he worked with Pamela to produce the exquisite "The Colour of Amber" (also featuring Anita Best). With "Colour...", Pamela continued her musical journey, redefining some of the most beautiful and haunting traditional material that ultimately landed the album on several "Year's Best" lists throughout the world. Also with Anita Best, and Genevieve Lehr, Morgan transcribed over 100 folk melodies for a book of NL folk songs published by University of Toronto Press, "Come and I will Sing You."
In the early nineties, Pamela gathered back all of her former recordings, including the complete works of Figgy Duff, and organized them under her own record label, Amber Music. With this impressive body of work, as well as releases from Anita Best, the late Emile Benoit, and her own solo work, Pamela is using Amber Music to shape and direct her continuing musical journey, bringing the past together with the present and passing it on to her ever growing worldwide audience.
With the release of her first solo album, "On A Wing And A Prayer"(1995), Pamela carried on the tradition of Figgy Duff in her own equally innovative way with tales of romance, longing, a wounded heart, and various jewels of traditional Newfoundland/Celtic culture. Many of these songs found their way onto compilations throughout North America and Europe, and the album was released in Japan and Taiwan. Seven years later, in 2002, came "Seven Years" featuring her developing songwriting and piano skills. Described as a "fascinating life study" by Billboard magazine, this is entrancing music, often inspired by nature and the ocean, a product of a unique time and place. In 2005, Pamela returned to her roots with an all-acoustic, all traditional album entitled "Ancestral Songs", recorded in England, and featuring Chris Leslie (Fairport Convention) on violin.
As a solo artist, Pamela has toured extensively over the years, throughout North America, the UK and Europe, as well as representing Canada at EXPO in Japan. She has been also been recognized for her production skills, producing albums for other artists, and both the tour and live recording which marks Figgy Duff's silver anniversary. She has written extensively for film and theatre, and in 2006, oversaw the production of Figgy Duff's original score for Shakespeare's "Tempest", and her own original Folk Opera, "The Nobleman's Wedding", which went on to tour the Arts Centers in Newfoundland. In 2007 Pamela was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters from Memorial University, in recognition of her vital contribution to the traditional music of Newfoundland and Labrador.
In 2008, Pamela began a two year course in Graphic Design at the College of the North Atlantic, which she completed with honours in 2010. This has led to new loves- photography, print, web design; and a renewed respect for the teaching profession. It also gave her the skills required to design and notate her beautiful book of piano arrangements of Newfoundland folk songs- "Ballads for Piano and Voice", released in 2011.
2012 finds Pamela with a select group of students in the first of biennial eight week teaching semesters, passing on her precious knowledge, staying closer to home and indulging another passion - her garden.
Innovative, beautiful, powerful, and highly original, Pamela Morgan continues to set the standard of integrity, perseverance, and artistic vision for artists of all disciplines and musical genres.
