Biography

Deborah Romeyn is Manitoba’s original renaissance woman – high school biology teacher by morning, massage therapist by afternoon, singer/songwriter by inspiration.

Deborah – feet firmly planted in the Prairies, eyes focused on the human spirit – is launching her fourth and favourite CD of original songs and music on September 18th on PTE’s main stage in downtown Winnipeg.

Two-and-a-half years in the making with Juno-award-winning local music producer, Dan Donahue, Late November has an acoustic feel with strong lyrical and melodic arrangements. Deborah’s songs speak of common experience – renewed love in a long-standing relationship, winter weather, carefree weekend days – that she links in metaphorical ways to life on the Prairies and on the shores of Lake Winnipeg.

“Of all the musical work I’ve done,” says Deborah, “this is the project I am most proud of. This CD captures the essential nature of my music – the words, the feelings, the melodies. Nothing that isn’t needed made it onto the CD. The powerful messages I wanted to share can truly be heard.”

The CD opens with the title track, “Late November” – a touch of lunacy walking in the moonlight with an open heart. It closes with “Fisted Glove”, a song inspired by well-known social justice advocate, Carl Ridd; the song puts the listener on a re/newed path to peace. In between these two powerful statements of the human spirit, Deborah paints pictures of being snowbound at the lake, of setting responsibility aside to enjoy a “Shoebox Saturday”, of longing for Spring, of praying for rain, of long-departed loved ones, of “Something Sweet” to counter a bitter loss, of unrequited love, of renewed love, and of “Ordinary Days”.