Tannis Slimmon is a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter based in Guelph, Ontario.
[1] She is most noted for her 2008 album Lucky Blue, which won the Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Album of the Year at the 4th Canadian Folk Music Awards.
[2] Originally from Oak Lake, Manitoba,[3] Slimmon began her musical career as a member of various bands in the Southwestern Ontario region, most notably the folk trio The Bird Sisters with Sue Smith and Jude Vadala,[4] while also working as a laboratory supervisor for the University of Guelph.
[5] She also appeared as a backing vocalist on recordings by Barenaked Ladies, Rheostatics, Grievous Angels and Willie P. Bennett.
She released her debut solo album, Oak Lake, in 2001.