For the third time, one of Stella Swanson & the Rosie Joyfuls tracks has earned finalist status in the John Lennon International Songwriting Competition! Thank you to all of the artists who listened to our song and voted for us! We are very humbled by and appreciative of the recognition! Thank you JLSC!!!

Stella Swanson & The Rosie Joyfuls is absolutely thrilled to be a finalist in the ‘Children’s Song of the Year,’ category of The John Lennon International Songwriting Contest!!!

September 21st, 2017, Stella Swanson and the Rosie Joyfuls received their second nomination from the Canadian Folk Music Awards!  We are so grateful to receive this nomination and could not be happier for the legendary Fred Penner who ended up winning ‘Children’s Album of the Year,’ in our category.  Thanks to everyone who contributed to this nomination; we truly are grateful!

We are here in Victoria and we’re excited to be celebrating with so many wonderful Canadians today!!!  We’ll be performing at the MainStage on the legislature lawns at 4:10 pm today, so if you’re in Victoria, come and sing with us!

We had the pleasure of spending time with Super Sue Finneron of Finneron Hyundai and Shane Phillip of Island Soul Films to create this video!

We’re so grateful to Sue for including us in this project and for supporting artists in our community.  Thank you Sue!  And thank you Shane for capturing the fun spirit of our little band!

Watch the video here!

We could not be more thrilled to announce that we’ve been nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award for ‘Children’s Artist of the Year!  We are in such good company and we wish all of our fellow nominees well.  Especially Ginalina and Madame Diva, who we met in Edmonton last year at the CFMAs.

Thank you so much to BreakOut West for the nomination.  We are thrilled that you enjoy our music!!!

We are thrilled to be returning to the Garden Stage to play the Filberg Festival in August!  One of our most memorable concerts of the ‘I’m Not a Bunny,’ tour was playing at the Filberg Festival in 2015 and we’re very excited to include songs from our second album, ‘Pants on Backwards,’ during our set this summer.

Please mark it on your calendars!  Saturday, August 5th, 2017, 1:30-2:30 pm at the Garden Stage. ( See the full line up of Filberg Performers here. )

Karen, Stella and Sophie take the garden stage at the Filberg Festival in 2015.  Photo credit to Robyn Pendak.

This morning we were surfing the web together to see when the applications for the 2017 Canadian Folk Music Awards were open and we saw a photo of our performance in Edmonton on their home page!  Thank you, CFMAs!  What a lovely surprise!!!  Visiting Edmonton for the 2015 CFMAs was one of the highlights of our year and we are so grateful to have so many great memories of our experience. 

All are welcome to join us for the release concert of our second album, ‘Pants on Backwards!’

We’ll have special feathered guests from M.A.R.S., a set of songs from our new album, and time to sign cds and take photos with our fans!

We hope you can make it!