Love
This is my newest album!
Here are the songs that are in my heart - each one, in its way, is about the beauty in the moment of loving exactly where you are.
Physical copies of the album are available at live shows. And online, I’m releasing the album song by song - it’s Megan’s Year of Love!
Please check in often to purchase the new songs - may they connect us all with love! love! love!
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“Ottawa’s Megan Jerome has a special flair for smart, sassy, folk- and roots-inspired songwriting and her music's blossoming with her band The Together Ensemble. Guitarist Fred Guignion, organist Don Cummings and drummer Mike Essoudry provide the right combination of earthy grooving and swirling atmosphere to back up Jerome's earnest, affecting voice and vintage Wurlitzer electric piano.”
—Peter Hum, The Ottawa Citizen
Together Ensemble
“Megan Jerome's fifth record is called Together Ensemble, and it's as imaginative and emotional as her music has always been — but the new recordings radiate with a fuller, more textured sound. Jerome developed that sound alongside the album's namesake, The Together Ensemble — a band she put together with a few of the city's best players: Don Cummings on organ, Fred Guignion on guitar, and Mike Essoudry (Megan's husband) on drums. The album spans a range of styles and moods, but Megan and the band never sound out of their element — on the contrary, Together Ensemble is a fitting title for music that feels so comfortable and effortless.”
—Jessica Runciman, CBC Ottawa
Megan Jerome
“Ottawa singer-songwriter-pianist Megan Jerome strips her music down to its bare essentials…The pure-voiced Jerome has crafted an intimate and highly personal disc that pulls from folk, classical and jazz sources to build songs with their own distinctive charms.”
—Peter Hum, Best Bets, The Ottawa Citizen
This Uneven Pace
“Well, we’ll call it jazz, but the sophomore release by this often-quirky Ottawa trio has enough folk and cabaret and country bubbling through it that labels are even more pointless than usual. What’s relevant is that, as with their debut album Unlonely, lead singer and pianist Jerome, percussionist Mike Essoudry, and all-around instrumentalist Petr Cancura know how to have fun while creating evocative moods and vignettes peopled by mining engineers, campfire fans and blissful lovers. There’s room for everyone and everything in these songs, a happy fact underscored by Jerome’s beguiling, open-hearted vocals. With winter creeping in, the crystalline, melodica-accompanied track Skating deserves a special listen: sweet and whimsical and crisp, it’s everything that’s best about the trio.”
—Patrick Langston, The Ottawa Citizen
Unlonely
“Anyone still stuck in the Diana Krallspace may find aural escape with Megan Jerome. Vocals and piano, jazzy style, can be stiff, but delivered with spunk its salvation itself. Jerome doesn't get all caught up in snooty jazz, nor fall back on tired standards, but concocts a cabaret of originals as folky as it is jazzy. Think Victoria Williams without the croak. The trio has a subtle, clear and bouncy delivery, giving the spotlight to a voice that richly deserves it. Who knew crooning could be this much fun?”
—John Sekerka, X-press