The Beautiful Piano
NOW AVAILABLE at all WalMart, Zellers and Christian
Retails Stores
throughout Canada!
July 2008 -- CD Release Concert (part of the Music & More series in Chilliwack Central Park) http://www.canada.com/chilliwacktimes/news/community/story.html?id=f973c8cf-0f7a-4d69-a244-284013c8c8f6
June 2008 -- http://www.ambrose.edu/files/u50/Spring_2008_anthem.pdf
May 2008 -- YouthInk Magazine! http://www.youthink.ca/reviews/cds/08MarchCDs/DebbieFortnum.html
April 5, 2008 -- The Chilliwack Progress (story on Deb and one of her favourite recipies!) http://www.bclocalnews.com/fraser_valley/theprogress/lifestyles/17280714.html
FACEBOOK -- www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=10102922132 (Cheese Cake Concert)
FACEBOOK -- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=737290725 (Debbie’s Personal Site)
FACEBOOK -- http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10893687054&ref=mf (Deb’s Music & Fan Site)
April 1, 2008 -- The upcoming April 5th Fundraising Cheese Cake Concert featured in The Abbotsford News! http://www.bclocalnews.com/fraser_valley/abbynews/lifestyles/17109516.html
March 28, 2008 -- The Cheese Cake Concerts featured in The Chilliwack Times!
http://www.canada.com/chilliwacktimes/news/showtime/story.html?id=70601433-91d5-4038-b774-6fd363157d10
March 26, 2008 -- Debbie and Lisa's first Cheese Cake FUNDRAISING Concert for
Cancer is making waves! www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=10102922132
March 11, 2008 -- Debbie's THE BEAUTIFUL PIANO CD hits WalMarts across Canada!
From Debbie's TV Appearance: YouTube - Easter Morning Sunrise
March 9, 2008 -- Debbie recieves the CD BABY "Editor's Pick" in the Instrumental Pop genre! http://cdbaby.com/picks/385
READ THE BEAUTIFUL PIANO REVIEW HERE by Mostly Piano Productions' Kathy Parsons!
March 4, 2008 -- The Beautiful Piano hits Christian Retailers across Canada! www.yourmusiczone.com/go/ymz/music_artist/fortnum_debbie
February 27, 2008 -- Debbie appeared on 100 Huntley Street Wednesday, Feb. 27th! Watch online here: www.crossroads.ca/broadcas/program.htm
February 22, 2008 --
www.yourmusiczone.com/go/ymz/music_artist/fortnum_debbie
January 30, 2008 -- Debbie is reviewed in www.SugarCainEntertainment.com !
January 30, 2008 -- Debbie is reviewed in a heavy metal magazine! www.metal-rules.com
January 28, 2008 -- Debbie makes the Music Industry Newsletter!
http://www.mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=106739
January 24, 2008 -- Debbie begins recording THE HEALING PIANO with Chris Janz!
January 7, 2008 -- Debbie launches her new Face Book and MySpace site! www.MySpace.com/DebbieFortnum
January 1, 2008 -- Debbie launches her new website: www.DebbieFortnum.com !
December 2007 -- Debbie tours throughout Alberta and BC's Lower Mainland
November 30, 2007 -- Debbie is heads out on a 10 Day Alberta Christmas Tour!
November 6, 2007 -- The Chilliwack Progress reports about Deb's upcoming
Community Benefit Concert for Charlie, Kati and Cassie!
http://www.bclocalnews.com/fraser_valley/theprogress/entertainment/11054456.html
October 26, 2007 -- Debbie brought home the Canadian Covenant Award for
INSTRUMENTAL SONG OF THE YEAR (Easter Morning Sunrise, from The Beautiful Piano!)
Brian Doerksen, with whom Debbie sang a duet both at the GMA Covenant Award's and on his new worship CD, Holy GOD, was a BIG winner at GMA Canada & the Covenant Awards... (equivalent to the American GMA Awards... a.k.a. The Dove Awards.) Brian took home the Canadian Cov's in the following categories...
Artist of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year "Holy God"
Praise and Worship Album of the Year "Holy God", Praise and Worship Song of the year "Holy God"! Congratulations, Brian!
October 2, 2007 -- Debbie's 2007 Calendar is now full and we are not accepting any more bookings for this year. However, LISA ADRIANNE has a few more spots open this Fall / Christmas 2007 and we'd love to send her to your group / event with her fresh ministry of musical hope!
September 14, 2007 -- Debbie is showered with FIVE Covenant Award Nominations!
PRESS RELEASE / NEWS ARTICLE HERE
The Chilliwack Times Friday, September 14, 2007
September 1, 2007 -- Debbie is chosen to be a panelist / presenter for the upcoming Gospel Music
Association Week in Calgary, AB on October 25th & 26th!
August 25, 2007 -- The Beautiful Piano was nominated for BEST INSPIRATIONAL
PRAISE & WORSHIP ALBUM OF THE YEAR, and BEST INSTRUMENTAL and
one of the bonus vocal tracks (LOVE NEVER FAILS) was also nominated for a
PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD!
THE BEAUTIFUL PIANO WON THE CANADIAN MAJA AWARD for " BEST
INSPIRATIONAL
PRAISE & WORSHIP ALBUM OF THE YEAR"
Debbie also co-hosted the Canadian Maja Awards Ceremonies with Dr. Bobby Jones of the USA! View photo of Debbie, Lisa & Rob with their Maja Awards here: www.farawayworship.com/photos.html
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uly 15, 2007 -- The Christmas Piano - and - The Beautiful Piano receive stunning
reviews from Kathy Parsons of SOLO PIANO PUBLICATIONS
READ THE BEAUTIFUL PIANO REVIEW HERE
READ THE CHRISTMAS PIANO REVIEW HERE
July 3, 2007 -- Debbie's new instrumental Piano CD was nominated for
TWO
more Canadian MAJA Awards!
June 2007 -- Blessings Christian Marketplace and Far Away Music Canada
enter into partnership!
May 2007 -- The Beautiful Piano receives its first (European) review!
http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/products/Debbie_Fortnum/The_Beautiful_Piano/25224/
May 2007 -- The Beautiful Piano is released in Langley at Langley Blessings.
April 2006 -- The Beautiful Piano is relelased at Chilliwack Alliance Easter
Worship Service and Lynden's Word of Life Church.
April 2007 -- www.theprogress.com
February 2007 -- Debbie records the SECOND piano CD in a series of three called THE
BEAUTIFUL PIANO
!
January 2007 -- Debbie's FIRST magazine cover & TOP STORY in L.O.I.R.E Magazine! www.loiremagazine.com
December 2006 -- The Chilliwack Progress' Article on Lisa and Debbie
December 2006 --
The latest review on
THE CHRISTMAS PIANO by Canadian Journalist, Joe Montague: HERE
September 2006 --
ATTENTION! DEBBIE HAS JUST WON THE CANADIAN MAJA AWARD FOR 'BEST INSPIRATIONAL PRAISE & WORSHIP ALBUM OF THE YEAR', PLUS FIVE NOMINATIONS! http://www.majaawards.com/index.php
~ Female Artist of the Year
~ Best Inspirational / Praise & Worship Recording
~ Album of the Year ~ Best New Artist
~ Contemporary Gospel Recording of the Year
Debbie's NEW Christmas CD!
Debbie's NEW Christmas Piano CD now here!
Order today
at this link: Buy Debbie's Music
March 2006 -- View Debbie's 2006 TV and radio interviews in the Toronto area.
Click here to watch one of those interveiws (March 1, 2006)
http://www.crossroads.ca/broadcas/program.htm
January 2006 -- Debbie's newly released CD, "TO LOVE AND TO BE LOVED"
hits the TOP 5% OF ALL CANADIAN ARTIST'S CDs sold in 2005!
Plus, it is in the TOP 20 on Europe's Inspirational Radio Network, UCB!
(Vote below on the link below the green line!) LISTEN TO & BUY IT TODAY safely with any credit card from: www.CDBaby.com OR, (via cheque/check/money order) DIRECTLY FROM OUR WEBSITE Buy Debbie's Music
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2005
PRESS RELEASE
FarAway Music Canada, Chilliwack, BC
Office: 604-824-4580 Home: 604-824-4307
Press Photos: www.cfh.ca/debbie
For Immediate Release
CHILLIWACK SINGER/SONGWRITER EMBARKS UPON
“TOUR OF HEALING HOPE” IN HURRICANE-DEVASTATED
STATES, WHILE CD RECEIVES NATIONAL RADIO
DISTRIBUTION IN CANADA! (See below...)
PHOTOGRAPHER: PETE FRIESEN, YARROW, BC
Debbie Fortnum’s heart is as passionate as her music, and both are beginning to make an international humanitarian mark. On October 26th, 2005 , while her newly released CD is being distributed to every Canadian Christian Radio Station (along with selected USA stations), she will board a plane to New Orleans to begin five days of concerts to the weary relief workers and victims of loss throughout the Gulf States regions devastated by the recent hurricanes. Her team will also be distributing 500 backpacks to Hurricane Children, and 500 new Beanie Babies from the Ty Beanie Baby Company.
Through her music and ballet entourage, Debbie has been involved in various missionary and relief efforts, including the Tsunami Relief effort (her To Love and to Be Loved CD release concert raised $6,000 for that tragedy) and AIDS orphans in Uganda, Africa (to whom she has personally ministered). The new CD is already in the TOP 5% of all Canadian CD’s sold in 2005, and that is without radio airplay.
Fortnum, Chilliwack wife and mother of three, is an advocate / artist with Canadian Food for the Hungry and will also be partnering with other organizations such as Samaritan’s Purse and Impact Ministries while in the Gulf region.
In October, her new CD will be distributed to over 50 Contemporary Christian / Gospel Radio Stations and programs across Canada, via Phoenix Five Ltd, an Ontario-based Radio Distribution and Tracking company.
Along with national radio airplay, the UK’s largest Christian broadcasting network has recently picked up Debbie’s single and title track, “To Love and to Be Loved” due to an impressive 9 out of 10 stars review by a popular UK magazine journalist.
She has appeared on international TV, as well as the national Canadian television show 100 Huntley Street; her songs are being sung in churches and radio stations around the world; she has shared the stage with Juno Award-winning singer/songwriter Brian Doerksen of Abbotsford; three of Debbie’s songs join Juno Award-winning artists Lianna Klassen and Steve Bell on Canada’s Gospel Music Foundation’s Windows of Hope CD; she also shares space on other compilation CD’s with other award-winning USA artists ; her original songs have been recorded by international artists Bobby Michaels (Musicianaries International) and DuSharme Lanusa (Miss Oklahoma) and she has been involved in performance and leadership in numerous national and international conferences and events.
She continues to perform across Canada and the USA and her latest CD To Love and to Be Loved will be available at all Blessings stores across Canada in October 2005, and is currently available at Verses Books, CD Plus in Cottonwood Mall, and Welcoming Treasures in Yarrow. During the month of October, all proceeds from her CD will go towards her Gulf States “Tour of Healing Hope” for hurricane victims.
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Buy To Love and to Be Loved today! HERE
September 20th, 2005
By Nick Peros, Phoenix 5
To Love and to Be Loved
To Love and to Be Loved is the latest CD release from Canadian Christian artist Debbie Fortnum. Featuring twelve original songs of faith, love, hope and healing, To Love and to Be Loved showcases Debbie’s rich, beautiful vocals and songwriting talent – the 'title track', To Love and to Be Loved, is a song of heartfelt hope, honest lyrics born out of Debbie’s own first-hand life experience; “Believe” is both a prayer to God for strength and a beautiful expression of personal faith, while “Like An Eagle” is a gentle ballad that poetically expresses God’s love and the intimacy we have with Him. With top-notch production from producer Chris Janz, a superb backing band and a great contemporary sound, Debbie delivers stirring performances on every track - always deep, always passionate – she sings from the heart, to the heart. To Love and to Be Loved is being serviced nationally to Christian Radio across Canada as well as to key US Christian Radio Stations. To Love and to Be Loved from Debbie Fortnum showcases an exciting Canadian artist who is rich in talent and who has a heart for the hurting, a heart for missions and a heart for God.
Phoenix 5 Ltd, Oakville Ontario, CANADA
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The British "CrossRythms" online magazine has published a review
by Tom Lennie regarding "To Love and to Be Loved". Read the unprecidented "9 out of 10 stars' review that is garnering attention from the largest Christian Broadcasting Network in the UK! -- and don't forget to add you own supportive comments today! HERE
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CANADIAN FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY PRESS RELEASE MARCH 2005:
Canadian Food for the Hungry International would like to publicly thank Debbie Fortnum and everyone else - the almost 100 individuals who gave of their time and talent (servers, CD tables, hospitality, dancers - including Debbie's own two daughters, choir, parents, make-up, etc.), who helped make her two recent concerts huge successes.
Here's some excerpts from a couple of comments Debbie received:
"What a beautiful evening! All I can say is that was an incredible and beautiful worship experience!"
"My heart was overwhelmed last night with the creative inspiration of so many artistic talents. It was so beautiful to see and hear . . . It filled my senses and my soul and moved me to tears. I simply drank it in."
Not only was it a beautiful evening, but the effect of the concert will be felt half-way around the world, as the Canadian Concert raised almost $4,200 CA for CFHI's long-term Asia tsunami response, and the USA Concert raised almost $1,500 US for Food for the Hungry in the USA's Asia tsunami response.
A DVD of the Canadian Concert be available soon! If you are interested, please contact Debbie@FarAwayWorship.com
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How did Debbie's little CD Release Party turn into two major CD Release - Tsunami Relief Concerts? Here's Debbie's own words on how the "little party" to celebrate the release of her brand new CD "To Love and to Be Loved" has now become two "major" concerts . . .
"When the tsunami hit, I knew in the pit of my soul, my heart, my gut -- you know what I mean here -- that my plans for a little CD Release party needed to change a bit. A lot. We turned on a dime, and my "Yay God Party" became much more about “Tsunami Relief” than a “CD Release”. We knew God was in it when businesses, churches, individuals, artists, dancers, and helpers just kept getting on board and coming alongside me in order to pull two major concerts off in a few short weeks!"
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WHAT'S BEING SAID ABOUT 'TO LOVE & 2 B LOVED'...
FEBRUARY 2005
Edmonton
I am writing in regards to Debbie's new CD, "To Love and To Be Loved."
IT IS AWESOME! I have been using the CD to bless others and to
facilitate their healing journey. I am the Director of Care Ministries
at Beulah Alliance Church in Edmonton, Alberta. I work with many
hurting people and have always worked songs into their healing journeys
and counselling. Her new CD, "To Love and To Be Loved," is like a
soundtrack for the restorative work God is doing in their lives! I
have "assigned" her CD as homework for many of the people I
work with.
They have found it to be an excellent resource to guide and
encourage them on
their healing journey.
This past weekend, we had our Soul Journey (Recovery Ministry)
leadership training retreat. We used songs from the CD at various
points throughout the weekend to minister and to teach. I feel so
strongly about the impact of this new CD, that I blessed each of our
lay-leaders with the gift of your CD. They were extremely grateful!
To me, the CD provides hope and direction through areas of personal and
spiritual healing, with the powerful words of scripture incorporated
into the music. This CD will spend a LONG time being used as ministry
and counselling resource in my library! I have been a therapist for
over six years now and typically find a song or two on a CD that I use
for "healing purposes," but I have never encountered an entire CD that
has such powerful healing theme throughout.
God bless you, Debbie for your commitment to the Word of God, and letting us
glimpse your heart through the vulnerability of your music.
Blessings,
Beth Murray
Director of Care Ministries
Beulah Alliance Church
Edmonton, Alberta
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FEBRUARY 2005
"An inordinate wealth of high quality "Christian" music has flowed from north of the American border over the years; Steve Bell, Brian Doerksen, Heather Clark, Capstone, and the eclectic Bruce Cockburn (with equally eclectic theology!) are just a few. Add to those ranks the sweet (not sickly) dulcetones of Ms Fortnum, whose style may be loosely compared to that of Sheila Walsh or Twila Paris (but with a touch more panache!) It's over five years since her debut 'Oasis of Thirst' appeared. The wait's been worthwhile, though. This disc marks a notable progression in both strength of songwriting and quality of sound, while credit must also be given to the multi-instrumental work of producer/engineer Chris Janz.
Debbie's competent alto vocals do much justice to this batch of self-penned tunes, and while she sticks mainly within piano-based inspirational pop ballad parameters - where she is clearly most comfortable and proficient - she does allow some breadth of scope, adding, for example, hints of funk and a touch of gospel here and there. Lyrics are thoroughly soaked in the scriptures, yet they remain fresh and original, while the spiritual depth ingrained in every stanza is both impressive and moving.
Especially appealing are the choruses of 'Imagine, immersion' and 'Believe'. The first came with Debbie being "wonderstruck" by the truths of Ephesians...
"Can you imagine your immersion / Into purest Love? / Can you imagine your immersion / Into promises that always come true?".
The latter song was inspired by a prayer made by her great grandfather (x4!) - Dr. Andrew Murray, a pioneering Scots-born revivalist preacher in South Africa, whose life-story is worth checking out. Debbie's voice soars on these tracks - as, too, on the simply effective 'Like an eagle' (with fine guitar break) - where her introductory comments encourage the listener's spirit to likewise rise on high. Meanwhile, 'He bore my sorrows' is a beautiful meditation on the Cross. All in all - a charming experience of true "inspiration" - definitely deserving of a wider audience."
Scotland, UK
THE CD RELEASE=TSUNAMI RELIEF CONCERTS...
"Thank you to all who came out to support me and Canadian Food for the Hungry International's TSUNAMI RELIEF EFFORTS on February 5th in Lynden, WA and February 13th in Abbotsford, BC! $6,000 Cnd was raised through both CD Release Concerts! THANK YOU to all who gave of their time, treasure and talents so sacrificially!"
Love, Debbie
www.cfh.ca
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