Sarah Jane Scouten Bio

In March 2020, Canadian folk & country artist Sarah Jane Scouten was living in rural Scotland. With tours cancelled, days stretched endlessly, punctuated only by the steady unfolding of Scottish springtime, leaf by leaf, petal by petal. Growing up on the West Coast of Canada, to her the flora of Dumfries and Galloway was a pageant of scent and colour, altogether new but still strangely familiar.

This is where Sarah Jane was initiated into herbal medicine – hawthorn, valerian, yarrow. The plants’ subtle power drew her onto an unexpected path. In May 2020 she applied to a professional programme in herbal medicine in the UK, qualifying in June 2023. Training in an entirely different field gave her perspective and space from a career in music which demands everything. It renewed Sarah Jane’s love of live performance, which had been diminished by life on the road. Studying herbs, and just as importantly people, gave her music a deeper dimension and she began to write again. Now for the first time this decade, she is releasing new music.

Sarah Jane Scouten has been nominated for 4 Canadian Folk Music Awards, a Western Canadian Music Award and an International Folk Music Award. She has performed at Vancouver Folk Music Festival, MerleFest, Calgary Folk Music Festival, Salmon Arm Roots and Blues, Dranouter Festival, Maverick Americana Music Festival and more. She has opened for Corb Lund, William Prince, Ron Sexsmith, The Sadies and shared the stage with Martha Wainwright, The Strumbellas, Allison Russell, Martin Carthy, Mandolin Orange (Watchhouse) and more. According to CBC q’s Tom Power, Stan Rogers was able to do it, Ron Hynes was able to do it, Kate McGarrigle was able to do it – and Sarah Jane Scouten is able to do it.

Turned to Gold (LP) Tracklisting

01. Wanderlust

02. The Great Unknown

03. Wilder When I Was With You

04. My Heart Ain’t Broken

05. Dragonheart

06. Turned To Gold

07. Crocodile Tears

08. Rose and Carnations 

09. Is It Just The Whisky Talking

10. Little Band Of Gold

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next  gigs:

5/10 Salt Spring Island BC
7/10 Victoria** just added *
12/10 Toronto ON
13/10 London ON
17/10 Golden Lake ON
19/10 Mayne Island BC +
20/10 Fanny Bay BC “
21/10 Denman Island BC “
22/10 Campbell River BC
26/10 Vancouver BC &
3/11 Cumberland BC
11/11 Dumfries UK
15/11 Belfast NI
16/11 Limavady NI
17/11 Newcastle (Co. Down) NI
19/11 Dublin IE