Cherie Camp

[2] The daughter of journalist Dalton Camp,[3] she studied music and theatre at Queen's University before starting her musical career in the late 1970s with Welsman and Jeff Kahnert in a folk band called Available Space.

[1] In 1982, she had an acting role in Necessary Angel Theatre's production of Richard Wolfe's play Passchendaele.

[5] In this era, Liam Lacey of The Globe and Mail wrote that Camp was an excellent songwriter, but that she lacked authority and charisma as a performer.

[8] In the early 1990s, she performed with Gwen Swick and Shirley Eikhard in the trio The Three Marias.

[9] By the 2000s she had largely retired from the music business, but remained an occasional songwriting collaborator with Welsman.