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 JAM! Music reports that Alanis Morissette kicks off the Canadian leg of her North American tour
Wednesday with music from a new album inspired by the break-up of her
long-term relationship with actor Ryan Reynolds.
And after a tough year that also included the death of her grandmother,
the confessional singer-songwriter says she's excited to perform in
Canada, especially in her hometown of Ottawa, where she plays Sunday
(Oct. 12).
"I'll definitely be having Thanksgiving dinner with my family, some
version of it, anyway," Morissette said recently during a conference
call with reporters across the United States and Canada.
"I really, really wanted to play in Ottawa, basically. My touring
agent and I and my manager talked at great length trying to figure out
logistically how to make it happen, and I wouldn't stop until we did,
so I'm excited. We're playing a lot of Canadian dates this time around,
so I'm really excited to get back home."
The acclaimed performer has already run through a string of shows
along the U.S. eastern seaboard, where she drew mixed reviews for a set
list that blends her past hits with new material from her current disc,
"Flavours of Entanglement."
Morissette says she worked hard to balance new with old, while incorporating the rich textures that pervade her new sound.
"It is, I think, hands down my favourite set list, a combination of
wonderful self-indulgence that keeps me and everyone onstage really
happy and then the songs that I want to make sure that I communicate
with people because it will be like a familiar kind of home to some
people," she says.
"And there's a fluidity through the first whole section of the set,
it's like water to me, where the lights and the sound kind of flow
through one to the next. And then later in the show there's an acoustic
section, I've been wanting to do that for a long time."
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