Veda Hille

Veda Hille (born August 11, 1968) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, keyboardist and tenor guitar player from Vancouver, British Columbia.

Hille set up her own label, Ball of Flames, and in 1994 released her first CD, Path of a Body with Stephen Nikleva, Steve Lazin, and Martin Walton;[2] next was a pop album, Spine, recorded with various Canadian musicians.

In 1997 Hille began working with Martin Walton (bass, lap steel, ukulele), Ford Pier (guitar, organ, French Horn), Peggy Lee (cello), Barry Mirochnick (drums, xylophone, singing saw, and found instruments), and later Patsy Klein (vocals, flute).

Hille was commissioned by Mascall Dance to create the score for their choreography "The Brutal Telling", about the Canadian painter Emily Carr.

Beginning in 2000, Hille began collaborating with Christof Migone, to create a set of sparse computer manipulated songs.

The songs were performed live at the 2002 festival by various musicians, along with a video by Shawn Chappelle, and was the subject of a limited edition CD, Silver.

That year she released Return of the Kildeer,[7][1] with guest musicians Dan Goldman, Nick Krgovich and Larissa Loyva of P:ano, John Millard, Patsy Klein, Kim Barlow, Suzie Ungerleider, Cam Giroux, Ford Pier, Brian Travers-Smith, Ida Nilsen, Barry Mirochnick, Selina Martin and Christine Duncan.

With a full band, Hille made a studio recording, This Riot Life, of edited and arranged Christian hymns and reflections on personal tragedy.

She scored Bonnie Sherr Klein’s NFB film Shameless: The ART of Disability, as well as producing records for other musicians.

Hille's 20th album, Love Waves, was written in Berlin and recorded in East Van with John Collins of the New Pornographers.

In 2020 Hille premiered the solo show Little Volcano, created with Maiko Yamamoto and James Long of Theatre Replacement.