March 19, 2005 - Evening News, New Glasgow, NS.
PERCOLATING A DREAM
It's been decades in the making but Hopewell songstress Jakki Rogue has released her first full-length, solo disc.
BY KEVIN ADSHADE
It's never too late to make an old dream happen. After three decades as a professional musician, Jakki Rogue has released her first full-length solo CD. "Some dreams take a long time to percolate," she says. "Half the battle with dreams for people, is figuring what they want."
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April 14, 2005 - The Daily News, Halifax, NS.
EAR ON THE EAST
Didn't miss a beat
After a break for family, singer-songwriter returns to music
JAKKI ROGUE
"TAKE A LOOK AT THIS"
BY SANDY MACDONALD
It's been a long and winding road that brought singer-songwriter Jakki Rogue to her new collection of songs. "I call it life's system of detours," says Rogue, the second best - known singer from Hopewell, Pictou Co. (after George Canyon) Born in northern Ontario, where her Latvian grandfather settled to escape the post-war refugee camps, the singer grew up in St.Catharines (where she shortened her name from Rognvaldson to the saucier and more pronounceable Rogue).
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April 14, 2005 - The Chronicle Herald, Halifax, NS
SPOTLIGHT
Rogue songs get debut at Stayner's
NIGHTCLUB NOTEBOOK-STEPHEN COOK
Pictou County singer-songwriter Jakki Rogue likes a good challenge. Her new CD "Take a Look at This", which she launches Saturday night at Stayner's Wharf at 9:30 p.m., contains several songs that arose out of life's struggles, and are given a contemporary folk spin through Rogue's warm, consoling vocals and flowing melodies.
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