About The Jardines

The Jardines are Cherelle and Ajaye Jardine, a mother daughter act from Richmond BC. The idea of having a new mother daughter group in the current alt country music scene is really exciting. There hasn’t been a mother daughter success story since The Judds and The Jardines plan on making a similar impact.

The Cherelle and Ajaye combination is a delicious mixture of street smarts and innocence. Their life experiences are meshed together, giving the listener an ageless body of work to fall in love with.  The Jardines new self titled cd was released at the Olympic opening ceremonies at the Ozone in Richmond BC

The Jardines are currently at the Sound Lounge in pre production for their 2nd album. Gearing up for a release date in the spring 2011.  A live album will be released on Itunes in February that was filmed  at The Cultch by Marko Ibarra and recorded by Cecil English.   Videos of that show can be seen on our video page.

Bio

The Jardines are Cherelle and Ajaye Jardine, a mother daughter act from Richmond BC. The idea of having a new mother daughter group in the current roots country music scene is really exciting. There hasn’t been a mother daughter success story since The Judds and The Jardines plan on making a similar impact.

The Cherelle and Ajaye combination is a delicious mixture of street smarts and innocence. Their life experiences are meshed together, giving the listener an ageless body of work to fall in love with.

Cherelle Jardine has released 4 cds from 1998 to 2006. Her last release Head Traffic garnered great reviews. “Jardine’s voice embraces each melody like angel kisses unfolding a revelation” Bryan Baker “Cherelle has found herself a niche in the ranks of Canada’s pop music scene” RPM “Confident is an iffy world, Cherelle sings like some people pray” The Nexus. Head Traffic, her last release, was produced by Ray Roper and recorded in part at the Woodshed, Blue Rodeo’s studio, in Toronto with BR’s band members. Head Traffic had a hint of country, which would lead the way for the next project to be totally immersed in it.

Ajaye is currently a student in her 2nd year of University studying theater. Growing up, she studied piano with the Royal Conservatory of Music. She has appeared in various film and video projects. She plays flute as well as piano and guitar. Ajaye is also a gifted songwriter, inspired at an early age by Cherelle to explore her musical dreams.

Their new self-titled album, co-produced with Kirk Douglas and recorded at the Sound Lounge in Vancouver, has a total of 11 songs. The song writing has been compared to writers such as Lucinda Williams and Kathleen Edwards, as well as early Sheryl Crow.

The Jardines also included a cover of Gordon Lightfoot’s “Sundown”. To add to the fun, they put the Jardine stamp on it with an up tempo key change – that alone is causing some controversy, which the girls love.  Lightfoot loves their version.

The cd is dripping with sexy pedal and lap steel, dobro, fiddle, guitars, keys, harmonica and the sweet vocals of Cherelle and Ajaye. It’s a very intimate album, straight from the heart.

The Jardines band is Cherelle and Ajaye Jardine, Kirk Douglas, Marc Gladstone, Doug Liddle, Mike Flunkert, Brian Sanheim, Ricky Francisco.