Hilary Grist

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Hilary Grist | image = | image_size = | landscape =  | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date =  | birth_place = Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada | origin = Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | death_date =  | death_place = | genre = Indie pop, Folk, Jazz | occupation = Singer-songwriter | instrument = Piano, vocals | years_active = 2005–present | label = | associated_acts = | website = {{URL|http://hilarygrist.com}} }} '''Hilary Grist''' is a Canadian singer-songwriter based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Grist is notable for her song placements that have been part of ten major television shows.<ref name="ReferenceA">Grimm, NBC, 2012</ref><ref name="ReferenceB">Being Human, NBC, 2012</ref><ref name="Go To Gal, CHEK-TV, 2011">Go To Gal, CHEK-TV, 2011</ref><ref name="ReferenceC">Continuum, Showcase, 2012</ref><ref name="ReferenceD">Degrassi: The Next Generation, 2011–2014</ref><ref name="ReferenceE">Endgame, CTV, 2011</ref><ref name="ReferenceF">Cedar Cove, 2013</ref><ref name="ReferenceG">Arctic Air, 2013</ref><ref name="ReferenceH">Tessa & Scott, W Network, 2014</ref><ref name="ReferenceI">Hockey Wives, W Network, 2015</ref> As well, Grist is notable for her international following in Japan and South Korea, where she toured in 2012.<ref name="Singer On World Tour">"[http://www.mrtimes.com/entertainment/movie-guide/rally+about+much+more/3746060/PHOTOS+Picture+perfect+houses+earn+provincial+national+accolades/4463443/Fun+in+the+sun/4444503/Singer+world+tour/7028294/story.html Singer On World Tour"]{{Dead link|date=January 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}, Maple Ridge Times. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2012.</ref>

==Early life== Grist was born in Quesnel, British Columbia and raised in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. She is a graduate of Capilano University Jazz Studies program in North Vancouver.<ref name="canada1">McLaughlin, John P. (2 September 2010). "[http://www2.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=2fa71ab9-29d3-4cc4-b3dc-3b40e7598ea0 Jazzy Songstress Has Her Roots in Science"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227180221/http://www2.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=2fa71ab9-29d3-4cc4-b3dc-3b40e7598ea0 |date=2014-02-27 }}, The Province. Retrieved Nov 4, 2012.</ref><ref>Marchand, Francois (Sept 23, 2010). "[http://www2.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/whats_on/story.html?id=54f51ebc-971c-486f-8704-cae3d7461a38 Grist Has Found Her Musical Path"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227172414/http://www2.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/whats_on/story.html?id=54f51ebc-971c-486f-8704-cae3d7461a38 |date=27 February 2014 }}, Regina Leader Post The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 2 November 2012.</ref><ref>McPhee, Erin (29 November 2013). "[http://www.nsnews.com/entertainment/music/mad-inspiration-hilary-grist-lives-for-her-art-1.714413 Mad inspiration: Hilary Grist lives for her art"], North Shore News. Retrieved 21 February 2014.</ref>

==Career== In 2011, Grist was awarded fourth place in the Peak 102.7 CKPK-FMradio contest<ref>Martins, Monisha (4 October 2011). "[http://www.bclocalnews.com/entertainment/133044138.html?mobile=true Maple Ridge Singer Fourth in Peak Performance"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000533/http://www.bclocalnews.com/entertainment/133044138.html?mobile=true |date=4 March 2016 }}, Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News. Retrieved Nov 4, 2012.</ref><ref>Harrison, Tom. (Nov 3, 2011)."[http://blogs.theprovince.com/2011/11/03/grist-for-the-mill/ Grist For The Mill"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141004030435/http://blogs.theprovince.com/2011/11/03/grist-for-the-mill/ |date=4 October 2014 }}, The Province. Retrieved 2 November 2012.</ref> supporting emerging musical talent, and received considerable airplay as a result. Her songs have made the Top 10 in campus radio across Canada. As well, she was featured in the iTunes Indie Singer-Songwriter Spotlight.

Her influences are as diverse as Ella Fitzgerald, and Tom Waits, along with Debussy. Accordingly, her songwriting and performance style incorporates elements of jazz, folk, pop, and classical.

Grist released the follow-up album to 2010's ''Imaginings'' in 2014, called ''Come & Go''. In June 2015, she will release a children's storybook with imaginative photographs and original artwork along with an album of dream songs called ''Tomorrow Is A Chance To Start Over'', published by The Secret Mountain.

===TV, film and commercial appearances=== Grist's "Tomorrow Is A Chance To Start Over" was a major feature of a second-season episode of the hit NBC series, ''Grimm'' in 2012. The song formed an integral part of the plot and ran during a romantic scene of the "Bottle Imp" episode.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Also on NBC in 2012, the show ''Being Human'' featured Grist's song "Something Beautiful";<ref name="ReferenceB"/> as well, the song was featured on CHEK-TV's ''Go To Gal''<ref name="Go To Gal, CHEK-TV, 2011"/> and Hallmark Channel's ''Cedar Cove''.<ref name="ReferenceF"/>

Grist's ballad "Swallow Me Up" was featured in a series filmed in Vancouver, Continuum, which was carried by cable giant Showcase in the spring of 2012.<ref name="ReferenceC"/> "Swallow Me Up" and "Say Goodnight" were featured on the CBC Television series, ''Arctic Air'' in 2013.<ref name="ReferenceG"/> In early 2014, Grist's songs "Chemical Reaction" and "City of Green and Blue" were both featured on W Network's series ''Tessa & Scott'', based on the Canadian olympic figure skating partners Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.<ref name="ReferenceH"/> Also on W Network, Grist's song "Lay Your Heavy Head Down" was featured on Hockey Wives<ref name="ReferenceI"/> in 2015.

As well, the MuchMusic series ''Degrassi: The Next Generation'', syndicated worldwide, has placed three of Grist's songs, "Right For You", "Waltzing Matilda" and "Stick Of Dynamite".<ref name="ReferenceD"/> The latter song also appeared in the CTV Television Network series ''Endgame''.<ref name="ReferenceE"/> Grist also acted in a supporting role for ''Every Second Tuesday'', a feature film by Canadian director David King.

Grist contributed an instrumental song called "Matilda's Theme" to the very successful Cornetto (ice cream) Cupidity Love Stories commercial ad campaign in 2014.<ref>Ciambriello, Roo. (19 May 2014). "[http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/8-minute-ice-cream-ad-lesbian-love-story-and-lily-allen-sweetest-ever-157826/ This 8-Minute Ice Cream Ad, With A Lesbian Love Story, Is The Sweetest Ever"], Ad Week. Retrieved 1 May 2015.</ref>

===Tour history=== Grist toured in Asia in support of her album ''Imaginings'' in 2012,<ref name="Singer On World Tour"/> playing four shows at Tokyo's Cotton Club.<ref>Grunebaum, Dan (24 July 2012). "[http://metropolis.co.jp/arts/agenda/hilary-grist/ Hilary Grist, Vancouver Torch-folk Songstress"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004182625/http://metropolis.co.jp/arts/agenda/hilary-grist/ |date=4 October 2012 }}, Metropolis (Tokyo). Retrieved 4 November 2012.</ref> On this same tour, Grist performed at two major festivals, the Busan International Rock Festival and the Ulsan World Music Festival.

Grist has performed in many Canadian festivals as well: the 20th annual Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival, the Edge Of the World Festival in Haida Gwaii, the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, the Maple Ridge Jazz and Blues Festival, Pop Okanagan, and North by Northeast, among others. She has also toured across Canada several times<ref>MacLean, Hamish (15 September 2012). "[http://www.canmoreleader.com/2010/09/15/hilary-grist-vancouver-songwriter-brings-imaginings-to-canmore Hilary Grist: Vancouver Songwriter Brings Imaginings To Canmore"], Canmore Leader. Retrieved 2 November 2012.</ref> and appeared on CBC Radio 2 Live, CBC Radio One and CBC Radio Toque Sessions.

===Animation=== In addition to being a singer-songwriter, Grist is also a visual artist and illustrator. Her whimsical cartoons and chalk drawings are featured in stop motion animation in videos "Chemical Reaction", "Silver Lining", "Don't Forget Who Loves You", "Angels We Have Heard On High", "Branches Arms", and "Save You For Last".

===Media coverage=== Tom Harrison of ''The Province'' notes that ". . . there is a certain playfulness to her pop, which comes to the fore on 'Tall Buildings' and 'Save You For Last.' I wonder if Grist is a fan of early Randy Newman?"<ref>Harrison, Tom (1 September 2010). "[http://blogs.theprovince.com/2010/09/01/hilary-grist-imaginings-independent/ Hilary Grist: Imaginings (Independent)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222170143/http://blogs.theprovince.com/2010/09/01/hilary-grist-imaginings-independent/ |date=22 February 2014 }}, ''The Province''. Retrieved Nov 4, 2012.</ref> while John McLaughlin of The Province comments ". . . After a couple of live CDs, Grist's first studio project, Imaginings, co-produced by her sound engineer husband, Mike Southworth, may well be the start of her own Norah Jones-like career arc. She certainly has the goods and you never, ever know where that lightning's going to strike again."<ref name="canada1"/> As well, an article in ''The Vancouver Sun'' detailed the making of one of her videos: "Vancouver-based singer-songwriter Hilary Grist‘s video for her song Tall Buildings, which features a giant cardboard city built atop Grist’s piano as well as some pretty spiffy stop-motion animation, took over two months to complete."<ref>Marchand, Francois. (Oct 12, 2011). "[http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2011/10/12/new-music-videos-dan-mangan-in-medias-res-the-crackling-hilary-grist-louise-burns-kathryn-calder/ Awesome Sound"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029013423/http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2011/10/12/new-music-videos-dan-mangan-in-medias-res-the-crackling-hilary-grist-louise-burns-kathryn-calder/ |date=29 October 2012 }}, ''The Vancouver Sun''. Retrieved 2 November 2012.</ref>

==Discography==

===Albums=== *''Tomorrow is a Chance to Start Over'' (2015) *''Come & Go'' (2014) *''Imaginings'' (2010) *''It's Officially Winter Now'' (2011) *''Little Ditties'' (2009) *''On My Way'' (2005)

===Music Videos=== *Come & Go *Chemical Reaction *Waltzing Matilda *Silver Lining *A Little While *Swallow Me Up *Tall Buildings *Right For You *Don't Forget Who Loves You *Shine A Light on a Child *Stick Of Dynamite *Just Imagine *Save You For Last *Something Beautiful *Angels We Have Heard On High *Holy Winter *What Child Is This? *Branches Arms

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.hilarygrist.com/}}

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