ROSE COUSINS UNVEILS HER TAKE ON ANNIE LENNOX’ CLASSIC “COLD”
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Today, acclaimed multi-JUNO Award winning singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Rose Cousins returns with her take on Annie Lennox’ “Cold”. This has been a classic Canadian winter - unbelievably cold, with the beauty of freshly fallen snow and ice shimmering all around. For Rose Cousins, a classic winter at home in Halifax left her feeling nostalgic for the musical touchstones of her youth. Among the songs Rose felt drawn to was "Cold" by Annie Lennox, from her iconic 1992 album, Diva. "Cold" takes on a new tenderness and warmth with Rose, alone at her piano.
"Annie Lennox is so brilliant and it's been a cold winter,” explains Cousins. “She's epic and so is this nostalgic song from 1992 (and my youth). Who doesn't love longing and winter combined? Undeniable."
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MORE ABOUT ROSE COUSINS
On her latest record, Conditions of Love - Volume 1, Rose Cousins held our hands as she guided us on a journey through the "conditions of love." Ever the emotional explorer, the acclaimed, Nova-Scotia-based folk artist sought truth, in all its imperfection, in the depths of our most complicated of emotions: love.
Co-produced with trusted friend and longtime bandmate Joshua Van Tassel, Conditions of Love – Volume 1 saw Rose return to her first love, the piano. “Piano is where I feel the most connected. It’s the best partner in expressing the emotion I’m mining,” she shares.
Conditions of Love – Volume 1 has been nominated for the JUNO Award for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year award at the 2026 JUNO Awards, taking place March 29, 2026, in Hamilton, ON.
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Rose’s earlier work has garnered her two JUNO Awards (2013’s We Have Made a Spark & 2021’s Bravado), two Canadian Folk Music Awards, eleven East Coast Music Awards and one Grammy Award nomination (2018’s Natural Conclusion), along with praise from the likes of the CBC, No Depression, LA Times, Billboard, Folk Alley, and NPR, who raved “Cousins’ disarmingly fluid vocal tone has the ability to convey the most internalized feelings without an ounce of fuss.” Over the years, she has shared stages with Patty Griffin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jann Arden, Bruce Cockburn, Josh Ritter, Kathleen Edwards, Joe Henry, Aoife O’Donovan and Anais Mitchell, and her music has fittingly underscored scenes from notable TV shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Fire Country, Station 19 and Batwoman along with several independent films.
PRAISE FOR ROSE COUSINS
“On her new album, Conditions of Love - Vol. 1, Rose Cousins returns to her own first love — the piano — to craft 10 testaments to the human heart in all its glorious, inane complexity. The record delivers Cousins' trademark capacity for wry wit and emotional gravitas, but her archness never serves as a way to keep a distance between herself and her lyrics. Cousins knows how to find the light in the dark, she knows survival, and she's crafting whole worlds here."
CBC Music
“Rose Cousins is here to tell us about love. Vol. 1 of that treatise promises more of Cousins's deftly rendered, soul-inflected pop music. Light as air but deep as space, lead single "I Believe in Love (and it's very hard)" makes a simple declaration sound like the bravest thing you could ever admit.” Exclaim!
“Cousins’ triumph is finding a new way to express the feelings that go deeper than words, and making love come out the winner, even when it’s hard.” No Depression
ROSE COUSINS ON TOUR
March 13-20 - Cayamo 2026 - (Caribbean cruise w/ Jason Isbell + etc)
April 2-4 - Ottawa, ON @ Redbird
April 7 - London, ON @ Aeolian Hall
April 8 - Paris, ON @ Dominion Telegraph Event Centre
May 7 - Northampton, MA @ The Parlor Room
May 8 - Groton, MA @ Groton Hill Music Center
May 12 - Cambridge, MA @ Arrow Street Arts
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