![]() Following high school, she spent a year studying jewellery design at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her first stage experience was at 17 with the Halifax band October Game. She won a local Kiwanis Music Festival contest (see Kiwanis Festivals) by singing Sir Arthur Sullivan's 1861 music theatre piece "Where The Bee Sucks, There Lurk I." Following an early passion for Joan Baez, her teenage influences included Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Cat Stevens, Simon and Garfunkel, and the British group Talk Talk. Starting with ukulele at age four, she played music throughout her youth while rigorously studying classical guitar (12 years of lessons), piano (six years), voice (five years) and opera (three years) at the Nova Scotia Conservatory of Music. ![]() The daughter of Judy James, McLachlan was raised by her adoptive parents Jack, an American-born marine biologist, and Dorice McLachlan the family also included two older adopted brothers, Stewart and Ian. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, b Halifax, NS.
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