An evening with Sarah Jane Scouten at Cafe No9

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An evening with Sarah Jane Scouten at Cafe No9

Thursday 18 February 2027 · Doors 19:00

Cafe No9, Sheffield

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An evening with Sarah Jane Scouten at Cafe No9 is on Thursday 18 February 2027 at Cafe No9, Sheffield, with doors at 19:00. Tickets start at £16.50, including the booking fee.

Working as a songwriter means working at almost everything else: Sarah Jane Scouten has worked mucking out horse stalls, hauling hot chafer trays through Toronto’s TTC for The Weeknd’s music video, pruning tea roses at a 16th century Scottish cottage garden — and serving the early morning shift at The Rex Hotel, Toronto’s historic jazz music venue. Inspired by barflies and misfits, and her own complicated relationship with alcohol, she wrote Alright On My Own. “It’s what my life would be like if I never left the bars in Montreal,” she explains. A line from the song: “This heart’s like a wolf, and this body’s a cage,” became the theme of Sarah Jane’s upcoming LP Heart Like A Wolf. Her latest songwriting is that of a mature musician, road worn but not jaded. Most importantly, it renders the perennial experience of a working songwriter through a woman's hands. Raised in the string band music tradition of western Canada, the same close-knit community that produced Bella White, Pharis and Jason Romero, Le Ren and The Lonesome Ace Stringband, Sarah Jane has been making records since 2010. She now lives in rural Scotland, working part-time as a medical herbalist. H...

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