Cara Luft is turning heads with her blend of roots, folk, rock and country music. With her unique Alt-Roots sound, Luft has a richly deserved reputation as a triple threat: powerfully elegant guitar work, imaginative songwriting and a distinctive voice that penetrates to the core.

Strumming since the age of four and singing since she can remember, Luft brings a welcoming wit, ease and grace to the stage seldom seen in this age of fast fame and virtual presence.

Spending those first crucial nine months bathed in the resonant thump of her mother's Martin D-18, she was raised in a house and community vibrant with folk music and musicians. These roots inform and charge Cara's musical being, and underscore her depth and commitment to music, to song, and to the vital sharing of these gifts through soulful performances.

With rhythmic grooves, fleet fingers and a commanding resonant sound, Cara is a guitar maven of open tunings, branching out into mandolin and clawhammer banjo. Her writing is a blend of social commentary, imagination and musical intensity. In performance she balances pathos with joy, telling hilarious stories between songs. Her concerts are consistently well-received, and she has a dance card full of return invitations.

In 2002, Cara joined forces with two other female artists to form The Wailin' Jennys. Along with a third of the songwriting duties, she was the instrumental anchor, an mc extraordinaire, and a major contributor to their renowned vocal harmony arrangements. Two Jennys' albums resulted - the second of which, 40 Days, was awarded a Juno Award for Best Roots Album (Group) in 2005.

Her decision to follow her own muse was taken when she found a need to honour her core sensibilities, craving honest, deep music, lyrics with integrity; music with edge, grit, groove and spellbinding vocals.

The Light Fantastic is a testament to this difficult choice and is receiving strong critical praise and listener response, becoming the #3 Roots Album for 2007 on the Earshot college/community radio chart (Canada).

With an insatiable thirst for touring and performing, Cara Luft reaches out to people in that magical, wonderful way of the bard, from beginning of show to final encore.

The Light Fantastic marks Cara's welcome return to the solo trail. She chose Canadian rock star Neil Osborne to produce the album, to bring his fresh slant to a folk-roots recording. The album was mixed by renowned mix engineer Warne Livesey, and mastered by the sensitive genius Joao Carvalho. The Light Fantastic is a cornucopia of sonic delight, lighting the path to reaching the vast reservoir of soulful intensity that is Cara Luft.

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