Frazey Ford of the Be Good Tanyas

The Be Good Tanyas are a Canadian traditional music group, with influences in folk, country and bluegrass. The group, which comprises Frazey Ford (guitar, vocals), Samantha Parton (guitar, mandolin, banjo, vocals) and Trish Klein (guitar, banjo, vocals), was formed in British Columbia and played their first concerts in Vancouver in the late 1990s. In 2000 they embarked on a North American tour that ran from Vancouver to New Orleans, before returning to BC to record their first album Blue Horse, supposedly in a shack. The record, which combined old-time music standards such as "Oh Susannah " and "The Lakes of Pontchartrain " with self-penned songs like "The Littlest Birds (sing the prettiest songs)", was well received in the folk-roots movement and highly praised for the quality of the harmony vocals and the mixture of the new and the traditional in the instrumentation. Helped by the popularity of Americana at the time of its release, it also achieved a modest amount of crossover success in college radio.

Popular folk artist Jolie Holland is a former member of the Be Good Tanyas.

A second album, Chinatown, followed in 2003. Their third album is scheduled to be released by mid-2005.

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• The Be Good Tanyas