Chris Brown and Kate Fenner are a Canadian

Canada

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 folk rock

Folk rock

Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s...

 duo, consisting of singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

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s Chris Brown and Kate Fenner

Kate Fenner

Kate Fenner is a Canadian musician, currently based in New York City. She was one of the primary singers and songwriters for the Canadian alternative rock band Bourbon Tabernacle Choir in the 1980s and 1990s. When that band broke up, Fenner continued performing as a duo with her Bourbon bandmate...

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History

Brown and Fenner were founding members of the Canadian alternative rock

Alternative rock

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 group Bourbon Tabernacle Choir

Bourbon Tabernacle Choir

The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir were a Canadian alternative rock band that formed in 1985 in Toronto, Ontario. Their R&B-flavoured rock made them a mainstay on Canadian campus radio in the early 1990s, but the band never quite broke through to the mainstream....

 in the 1980s. When that band broke up following the 1995 album Shy Folk, Brown and Fenner moved to New York City

New York City

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and continued writing and performing as a duo. They have released six albums to date as a duo, and both members have released solo material as well.

In early 2003, they wrote and recorded the song "Resist War" and made it available for free via the internet at www.resistwar.com. An alternate version of the song appears on their 2004 EP Go On.

Discography

• Other People's Heavens – 1997
• Geronimo – 1999
• Great Lakes Bootleg – 2000
• O Witness – 2001
• Songs – 2003
• Go On – 2004