Drowning Ophelia: Official Website

December 7, 2009 - Merry Christmas everyone!! We just released a Christmas EP called A Silent Star :-) it's available for $5 from our website and hopefully soon on itunes! Buy both our albums for only $20! Buy now and shipping is FREE!!!

Buy A Silent Star!

July 29, 2009 - Cinderella has been selected to be played on Jango Online Radio! Click the link below to check it out and rate our song!!

Interested in winning a free Drowning Ophelia CD??? Join our street team and participate in our mission! For more information check out our street team page!

July 2, 2009 - Hey Everyone! We are very excited to announce our next show with Vancouver band FRANCO (www.thisisfranco.ca) on July 26th at the Haven Social Club! Tickets are available online here as well as at the Haven Social Club.

Check out the Facebook Event!

May 6, 2009 - We're playing the Ivory Club and Ebony Grille next Wednesday, May 13th, with fellow local artist Kelti Malone! The show starts at 9:00 pm and cover is $10.

Check out the Facebook event for more details!

January 14, 2009 - Hey everyone! We have a show coming up on the 23rd of January at Fresh Start Bistro. Check out the details under our Upcoming Shows column! Hope to see you there!

We have also received an amazing album review in Vue Weekly! you can check it out at www.vueweekly.com/article.php?id=10261

December 6, 2008 - Thank you to everyone who made it out to our CD Release Party and to those of you who watched online! Our next show is on December 19 at Axis Cafe in Edmonton. Hope you can all make it out!

October 23, 2008 - Come celebrate the release of Drowning Ophelia's debut album on November 1, 2008! It will be an all ages and licenced show held at the TransAlta Arts Barns in Edmonton, AB. Get your tickets now!!

If you feel uncomfortable paying with credit card or paypal online you can email us at tickets@drowningophelia.com to request your tickets.

For those of you who are unable to attend you can watch the performances of Drowning Ophelia and openers Pacific Sound Project online at www.DrowningOphelia.com/live.

October 1, 2008 - CD Release party tickets are now on sale! And the new Street Team mission has been launched, check it out under the 'Street Team' tab!

Drowning Ophelia's album is also available on iTunes, amazon.com, amazon.ca and HMV.ca. Check it out under the 'Shop' tab!!

September 14, 2008 - We are very excited to announce that a free download of 'Cinderella' will be bags of HevyD's Oldfashioned Kettle Korn! Check out they're website for more information and look for Hevyd's Kettle Korn next to the chips in your local grocery and convenience stores!

You can also request 'Cinderella' on the radio! Click here for a list of the radio stations you can request it at :-)

September 2, 2008 - Our CD release party has be scheduled for November 1rst at TransAlta Arts Barns. Our single Cinderella has been released to the radio stations and we will be letting you know what radio stations you'll be able to request our songs on soon! “Cinderella” was chosen for track of the day for August 27, 2008 on garageband.com and has won "Most Original" and "Best Female Vocals" in Alternative Pop on Garageband.com!

August 11, 2008 - We are very excited to announce that our CD is now available for sale! You can buy it here on our website under the 'Merchandise' tab and so far we are selling it in the Delta Co-op in Major Saskatchewan and the Rona in Macklin Saskatchewan.

July 28-31 we spent at guitar camp in Birch Hills Saskatchewan and we had an awesome time. The instructors there were amazing! Every night there was a little concert and we had the pleasure of playing with Clinton Pelletier on Tuesday night, he played with us on Cinderella. We have posted a video of it under videos.

Speaking of videos we have started to 'video blog' and now have a channel on Youtube. Check out our videos under the 'Videos' tab and subscribe to our Youtube Channel!

"Cinderella" won the online poll for our first single, thank you to everyone who voted! Join our mailing list and Street Team to find out when and where you can request it on radio stations across Canada!

July 16, 2008 - Ormus is no longer playing with us and Looking East on Saturday. In there place the band JEZIBELLE is playing with us instead.

We have two July Street Team missions that you can join and get a chance to win our debut album! To join the Street Team go here.

July 9, 2008 - We will be sending off our CD to be manufactured this week! We are very very very excited to finally have the finished product!

The July Street Team mission has been posted so check it out and join the Street Team if you haven't already! There will be numerous chances for you to win Drowning Ophelia CDs, Merchandise and more!!

Our show on the 19th is coming up quick check out "show detials" for more information.

June 12, 2008 - Hey everyone! We're in midst of renovating our website right now, so if you find any links that don't work let me know at band@drowningophelia.com.

Our CD is almost done! We're so excited! You can listen to the whole album on the music player in the top right corner that should have started playing when you entered the site! We've set up a poll and would like to know which song you think we should have as our first single so don't forget to participate!

We also have a show coming up on July 19 at the Haven Social Club. We will be playing with Ormus and Looking East.

Sign up on the mailing list to get updates for when our CD comes out and any upcoming shows! Also join the Street Team and participate for chances to win cool prizes like CDs and T-shirts and tickets to shows!

"Watch for them, and you might be saying 'I saw them long before they were so famous.'" Tracy Kolenchuck, Edmonton Arts Photographer.

You could possibly label Drowning Ophelia as “alternative pop;” however, their music combines influences from classic rock to Latin sounds and their new self titled album has been described as “Santana meets No Doubt.”

Founded by twin sisters, Candace and Karli Schiebelbein, Drowning Ophelia has been featured as one of Big Rock's "Untapped" up and coming artists sharing the stage with Tupelo Honey's Matthew Landry. Drowning Ophelia was also chosen by Hevy D Music as a showcased "Star of Tommorow". You can find their single "Cinderella" available for free download in bags of Hevy D Kettle Korn.

Released in Fall 2008, "Cinderella" has won awards for “Best Female Vocals” and “Most Original” in Alternative Pop on Garageband.com. Listeners describe “Cinderella” as “zany, quirky, full of fun and latino sounds” with an “uplifting hook, snapping samba-like beat with cutting edge energy behind the song”.

In 2007, Drowning Ophelia won Supernova.com's Battle of the Bands which propelled them onto Edmonton's alternative music scene.

Candace and Karli grew up in small town Saskatchewan surrounded by music. With professional musicians for parents and a recording studio for a playroom, these girls harmonized before talking, read music before storybooks, and performed live music before getting braces.

In 2003, Candace and Karli moved to Edmonton, Alberta, where they went to school by day– Candace at the University of Alberta, and Karli at Grant MacEwan College where she received a Diploma in Music- and wrote songs by night.

Drowning Ophelia has played in venues across Edmonton and is taking their show on the road to the rest of Alberta and Western Canada in Spring 2009.

Drowning Ophelia proves to be a dynamic group and a refreshing addition to Canada’s music scene. .

Cinderella with Clinton Pelletier

Album Review

NEW SOUNDS: DROWNING OPHELIA

Vue Weekly: Edmonton's 100% Independent News & Entertainment Weekly

By: Maria Kotovych

Who doesn’t like a set of twins? No, I didn’t mean it like that. Stop it! I’m talking about twin sisters recording an album together, which is what we have here with Drowning Ophelia. Edmonton residents Candace and Karli Schiebelbein present a pop album with an alternative twist, beginning with “Cinderella,” whose quirky lyrics and Latin beats open the album and promise listeners good things to come. The album does a great job of balancing slower ballads such as “Watch Me Drown” with energetic tunes like “Road to Nowhere,” which races along like ska on speed. And what a fun song! I’m not surprised that this group mentions No Doubt as one of its influences. Vocally, the sisters express themselves most powerfully when they lead with a strong, stirring alto. “Hush Now,” for instance, depicts the twins’ vocal confidence and lyrical maturity. At other times, the ladies switch gears, allowing their voices to explore a more folksy, Jewel-like sound. I’ve heard too many albums where all the songs sound so much alike that I could never tell them apart; fortunately, that’s not the case here.

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