RyeLee is the female version of Dallas Green/City & Color. The vocal texture combines with the delay effects and gentle stripped-down guitar to create acoustic folk pop played by two girls who find themselves in the middle of the Canadian Prairies. It's Winnipeg. It's winter. They stay inside a lot and play guitar.

Lorrie and Rheanna met half a year ago. Rheanna had decided to put together her first solo album after being in a band with her two brothers for several years. It was just enough time for Lorrie to add background vocals to two of the songs on The Fall set for release in March 2008.

In December Rheanna and Lorrie, as RyeLee, played their first open mic together at the Lounge of Charlie O and Friends in Winnipeg. Since then, they have played other open mic stages and gigs at Mona Lisa's, Saffron's, The Down Town Coffee Ground at the Red Road Lodge and a new club in Winnipeg called Sonar.

Some would say Lorrie and Rheanna are obsessed with words. Etymology. Word and phrase origins. Some would say they are tall. They would say they like coffee and crosswords and eating breakfast for all meals.

Songs of aching sadness, longing and a glimmer of hope make RyeLee "music with meat on it's bones".

Ryelee is sometimes accompanied by Neil Goebel on cello. Neil has been playing various instruments including bass and banjo for a few years and recently found that the cello is a great way to sound different — not so much a songwriter but more of an accomplice to most anyone who lets him play.

Media inquiries:

www.sonicbids.com/ryelee
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