Management

Second Storey Group is delighted to announce that we have signed an artist management agreement with Crystal Plamondon. Crystal is currently working on a new recording project, and will be hitting the road later this spring to bring it all out to you! Please read her biography, visit her web site (www.crystal-plamondon.com), and contact us (email) for booking availability.
 

 

Crystal Plamondon Biography

Crystal is a talented bilingual songwriter, singer, and performer with a twenty-year track record of consistently delivering passionate concerts that cover an emotional range from heart-warming ballads to rockin' country and zydeco. Whether performing with her high-powered five piece band, acoustic trio, or with piano accompaniment in her Torch Song show (best characterized as Peggy Lee meets Edith Piaff), Crystal never fails to connect with her audience.
 
Crystal Plamondon has toured extensively, bringing her music to intimate venues, theatres, and festivals in North America and Europe. She has co-starred in the musical theatre production of "Cow-boy Poétré", acted in several movies and has over twenty TV appearances to her credit.
 
Currently writing songs for her new recording project due out this summer, Crystal is getting ready to hit the road with new music and her infectious enthusiasm.
 
Crystal hails from Plamondon, the village in Northern Alberta founded by her Franco-American great grandfather in 1908.
 
Career Highlights:
 
She received the Molson Canadian ARIA (Alberta Recording Industry Association) Performer of the Year Award in 1992. The following year, she was nominated for YWCA's Tribute to Women Award for Arts & Culture. She was formally recognized as an honorary citizen of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana in 1994.
 
Crystal's first independent release, Carpe Diem! (1993) yielded two #1 hits in France - "Capitaine" followed quickly by "On va faire le rigodon".
 
She released two other independent CDs - La Rousse Farouche (Wild Red) in 1996, and Plus de frontières - No Borders in 2002. Both featured a wealth of original material as well as a few covers. Plus de frontières - No Borders was nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award for "Outstanding Francophone Recording" in 2003.
 
Crystal hosted the first French Country Music Program in North America called, "CountryMax" on Musimax, a sister station to Much Music and Musique Plus in Montréal in 1997. She performed live in Ottawa for the Canada Day celebration; and on October 18, 2000 Crystal translated and sang the"Famous Five Anthem" for the inauguration of the "Women are Persons!" monument on Parliament Hill.
 
Crystal has two music videos to her credit: Rendez-vous en Louisiane filmed in Louisiana, and Cajun Girl/ La Cajine filmed in Plamondon, AB.
 
In addition to hosting numerous television, radio, and live events, her acting career focused on performances in several TV productions, movies, and live theatre. Her television special, "Passeporte Musique", filmed in Benin, West Africa for Radio Canada in 1998, also aired on the BRAVO network.
 
In 2004 she was awarded Prix Sylvie Van Brabant for Excellence in Artisque Creation in Alberta. 2005 marked Crystal's lead performance in the musical, "Poétré", a productioin of L'UniTthPoétrètre / The National Arts Centre. She also appeared in "Alberta Bound", which aired on CBC Television in August as part of her province's centennial celebration.
 
The two achievements she is most proud of, however, are her children - Christie & Nelson.