Paula Eve Kirman is a Western Canada-based singer/songwriter who writes and performs music with a message. Whether singing about life, love, social concerns, or spirituality, she focusses on the passion behind the words. Her first demo CD, Today I Lit A Candle, was released in 2002, and received airplay on community and college radio stations, even breaking into the Top 30 in Waterloo. Since then, she has been threatening to do a Waterloo Tour, but anyways . . . the CD featured the title track about a memorial service for the Dec. 6 slayings of women in a Montreal technical college, as well as "Shoah," about the Holocaust, and "That's My Boy," a powerful lament about the situation in the Middle East.

Her followup, A New Light from 2004, consists of songs for worship and meditation, primarily Psalms and Jewish liturgical prayers set to music. Several of the songs are being used in congregations of various denominations.

Her latest project is Bridges to Burn and combined previously-unreleased new material with re-recorded versions of songs from Candle. Again, Paula deals with life, love, and social issues, from the introspective title track to the poweful "Why He Cries," a song which personifies the sadness of the Almighty looking at the mess we've made of the world.

Paula's work has taken a turn towards social justice, in no small part due to her active involvement in the peace movement and a variety of other causes such as poverty and the environment. "That's My Boy" has been brought up to date as a lament by a mother of any soldier of any ethnicity. New songs face specific issues head on, such as "Marching in the Street" and "Butterflies and Rainbows," about the effects of the Tar Sands development in Alberta.