Craig Cardiff
- January 10, 2024
- Singer
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Craig Cardiff Biography
| Name | Craig Cardiff |
| Birthday | Jul 9 |
| Birth Year | 1976 |
| Place Of Birth | Waterloo |
| Home Town | Ontario |
| Birth Country | Canada |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
Craig Cardiff is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on July 9, 1976 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Craig Cardiff was born July 1976. He was the son of Judy as well as Charles Cardiff. He was raised by his older siblings Catherine, Susan and Elizabeth in Waterloo, Ontario, where both parents were teachers at school. Music was a major part of his childhood and he was influenced through his family to pick up an instrument. The family bought him the first guitar that was one called a Gibson J-30, when he was just 15 years old. A teacher, one of his teachers at high school was able to teach him guitar during lunchtime. Cardiff began performing in coffeehouses as well as with a few bands during high school. While attending Cardiff’s University of Waterloo, he was a regular at the local bars, pubs and open mics and in coffeehouses. He also was an agent for bookings, and was involved in the organization of performances in Fed Hall, including the Guess Who. Cardiff was moved to the Ottawa region from Waterloo in his 20s. He resided at Wakefield for a couple of years before purchasing an old farmhouse in Arnprior that now is a recording studio.
Cardiff has worked in Halifax with singer and songwriter Rose Cousins. She has performed on several of his albums and they’ve also recorded a live album. Cousins have met Cardiff as studying on Dalhousie University in Halifax. “I fell in love with his music,” she remembers. “He became a huge influence, he taught me a lot. In addition to being a terrific songwriter and performer, he’s a great entrepreneur.” in 2003 Cardiff as well as Cousins recorded Gingers in Barrington Street, a joint live album that they created in Halifax.
When Cardiff released his album Goodnight (Go Home) in 2007, media took notice of the fact that he wasn’t selling plastic-wrapped, jewel-cased editions of the album during his tour. Instead, he asked fans to bring along USB keys to buy a digital download of the album, although he did sell “old-fashioned CDs” and jewel cases for an additional fee. “The green focus for us is just in reducing the amount of plastic we were using in CDs,” says Cardiff, who offered album inserts and art to fans who purchased digital music for their USB so they would still have a physical connection to the album. The Ottawa Citizen stated that the song “When People Go” had, “unwittingly, become Craig Cardiff’s Closing Time.”
Among Cardiff’s releases, his studio albums include Novemberish (Songs From The Rain), Love Is Louder (Than All This Noise) Part 1 & 2, Floods & Fires, Mothers & Daughters, Goodnight (Go Home), Auberge Blacksheep, Fistful of Flowers, Soda, Happy, Live At The Boehmer Box Company, Great American White Trash Novel and Judy Garland (You’re Never Home). The album Kissing Songs (Mistletoe), which was released in 2008, was recorded entirely on an iPod Touch using the Octopod application.
Cardiff has many house shows on his shows, usually before a bigger public performance with a private performance in the living room of a fan. “There are people connecting, people introducing themselves to each other”, “all these different groups of friends.” Cardiff is bringing music to the homes of his fans from the beginning of the 2000s. Cardiff has told Carleton University’s Capital Arts Online that he was inspired by his experiences as a teen in Waterloo Cardiff began to volunteer along with an individual who was organizing concerts in churches. In an effort to broaden this theme, he began performing music while telling stories a intimate space through performances in his fans living rooms. People regularly invite him to perform at their residences. Lisanna Sullivan, an artist living in Whitehorse, Yukon, hosted the house concert in June 2013, and called the event “one of the best nights of her life.” “It is an element” which he can feel comfortable with, she says of being able to have Cardiff perform at her house. She says it is “one of the best ways to listen to a musician because it is so intimate.”
Craig Cardiff Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Singer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Craig Cardiff is one of the richest Singer from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Craig Cardiff 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Craig Cardiff (born 9 July 1976) is a Canadian folk musician who hails from Waterloo, Ontario who lives in Arnprior, Ontario. He has released 16 albums, live as well as studio-based, since 1997. He has performed in North America and Europe. He was nominated for a Juno Award in 2012. Cardiff received nominations for an Juno Award for Roots and Traditional Album of the Year: Solo, and for the Canadian Folk Music Award as Contemporary Singer of the Year.
On September 27, 1997, Cardiff was released with their album Judy Garland (You’re Never Home) that featured Deanna Knight Tom Murray, Danny Michel, Joel Stouffer, Paul Mathew and Catherine Cardiff. It was re-released in August 2006. Cardiff recorded his debut album,”Goodnight” (Go to Home) at the end of 2007. The year 2007 was the time that View Magazine stated that even though Cardiff “…maintains a loyal audience”, he “…is more a secret than a household name, despite his songs revealing the craft of one of the best in the business”. View Magazine stated in 2007 that Cardiff is “playing bigger rooms, touring more and receiving more critical acclaim” following the release of his 11th album, Good Night (Go Home).” The magazine described Goodnight (Go Home) “arguably Cardiff’s most accomplished release to date.”
Cardiff, who has played in camps, backyards, prisons, churches, basements, festivals, kitchens and hundreds of living rooms, is known as an “advocate of alternate venue touring.” What takes Cardiff into unique performance venues and into so many living rooms is a willingness to go where his fans want to see him. In 2007, while booking a Canadian tour, he turned to his fans to help him. Through his website, Cardiff asked fans to suggest where he should play and then booked shows through MySpace and Facebook. Many of those venues were small and intimate, and on that tour, Cardiff booked three house concerts. Because he is going where his fans suggest he play, Cardiff asks them to help spread the word about his shows. “It’s not unmediated. It’s just more fan- directed, and that’s exciting,” he says of what the Globe and Mail called “tour economics on a good-neighbour level,” adding: “I think I’ll manage to avoid hotels for most of the tour because of fans and friends who are able to offer spare rooms and couches.”
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He released Floods & Fires in November 2011. The album earned a Juno Award nomination as Roots and Traditional Album of the Year: Solo, as well as a Canadian Folk Music Awards nomination as Contemporary Singer of the Year. The album was in the SoundScan Top 10 for a week, and Exclaim! magazine called it “a major breakthrough.” When Cardiff released his latest album, Love Is Louder (Than All This Noise) Part 1 & 2, in November 2013, Exclaim! magazine stated: “With a catalogue now well into double digits and a national fan base that is surely the envy of his singer-songwriter peers, Ottawa’s Craig Cardiff has been the model of how to be a successful independent Canadian musician. However, with his new double album, Love Is Louder (Than All This Noise) Parts 1 & 2, he seems better poised than ever to break into the mainstream, having recorded with a full band for the first time.” When Love Is Louder (Than All This Noise) Part 1 & 2 was released, it reached as high as No. 8 on the iTunes singer-songwriter charts and for a time was the only independent Canadian album in the Top 20.
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Cardiff was nominated for a 2012 Juno Award for Roots and Traditional Album of the Year: Solo for Floods and Fires in a category with eventual winner Bruce Cockburn, David Francey, Dave Gunning and Lindi Ortega. Floods & Fires also garnered a nomination for Cardiff as Contemporary Singer of the Year at the 2012 Canadian Folk Music Awards. Rose Cousins won the award, while Keri Latimer, Geraldine Hollett for The Once, and Catherine MacLellan were also nominated. Cardiff won the Canadian Organization of Campus Activities (COCA) Campus Entertainment Award as best singer-songwriter in both 2014 and 2013. COCA also recognized Cardiff in 2007, awarding him the Contemporary Music (Independent) Award.
Where does Craig Cardiff live?
Craig Cardiff (born 9 July 1976) is a Canadian folk singer from Waterloo, Ontario who lives in Arnprior, Ontario.
What genre is Craig Cardiff?
Country