This summer, In Our Sights will be reporting on Canada's newest crop of songwriters playing the festivals. This week, we focus on Gander, Newfoundland's Tara Oram.
It's common knowledge that it takes a lot of hard work and personal commitment to achieve success – doubly so in the music business. Just ask Canada's newest country sweetheart, Tara Oram.
In a 2011 interview with the St. John's Telegram, Oram revealed that she had, in fact, spent more than a few nights sleeping in the back of a car to save rent money. Her mother was shocked. But the hardworking Juno nominee and winner of the Canadian Country Music Rising Star Award can now look back with some amount of pride at her accomplishments.
Three top 15 country hits from her first release in 2008, Chasing the Sun, also earned Oram a number of awards and nominations, including the ECMA Award for country recording of the year. In addition, The Newfoundland Herald named Oram “Entertainer of the Year” in 2008. In 2011, her polished second release, Revival, produced the hit single “1929,” which raced up country charts. It propelled the young Gander lady to the forefront of Canadian country performers.
Oram will be performing at Dauphin's Countryfest on July 1.
She also will be appearing Aug. 3 at the Sunfest Music Concert in Duncan, B.C.
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