Colleen Taylor is a prairie soul with a heart for the world. She grew up singing and playing piano in rural southeast Saskatchewan, but has lived and traveled internationally. Through her business, "Siretona Creative," Colleen equips women in the arts. Her own music and writing tell poignant stories, lament injustice, call for change, and celebrate gifts in life. Colleen has earned two masters degrees from Regent College and Briercrest Seminary. Her final project for Regent was an arts thesis, writing songs an poems and presenting them in a concert. Her Briercrest thesis was oral histories of women. Colleen also holds professional membership as a writer and editor with The Word Guild.In October 2008, along with Lisa Cornish and Elizabeth A. Taylor, Colleen and Dara cowrote “Child of My Heart,” to sing at a fundraiser for OptionS Pregnancy Centre. In 2009, "Child of My Heart" won Award of Merit at the Canadian Christian Writing Awards in Toront. After two years of living with her brother Jeffrey, a professional potter, in the old school in Duval, Saskatchwan, Colleen relocated to Calgary to court and marry her husband. Dara Hallett has always been immersed in music. She studied musical theatre at Randolph School of the Arts in Toronto and has completed her teacher’s ARCT with the Royal Conservatory of Toronto. She obtained her Bachelor of Education from the University of Regina and went on to teach choir and band in a number of schools. Dara is a former member and teacher with Saskatchewan Express. She has led worship at different churches in Saskatchewan and delighted in doing music at Arlington Beach Camp for a number of summers. She is a member of the Registered Music Teachers Association as well as the Saskatchewan Recording Industry Association. Dara’s music comes from her experiences in life and observations of those around her. She has always been an avid folk music fan, writing her first songs, inspired by Joan Baez, at the age of 10. She rarely writes loves songs, preferring to challenge herself and others by writing to issues of faith, pain, and the journey of the soul. Dara and her husband Josh lived with their three young boys at Pelican Narrows, Saskatchewan for nearly two years. In May 2009 they transferred to Buffalo Narrows on the other side of the province. Order physical CDs: Minus 40 Tour,
Prairie Soul (Colleen), Live in Hudson Bay (Dara)
