Biography

Cliff Dawe a Traditional Country Artist whose venue is leader, lead vocalist, rhythm guitar player with a band known as "Little Big Band" (Canadian Country Version) .
His female counterpart in the act was Anna Perreault. They played bar, lounge, fair, cabaret and rodeo venues throughout Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario Canada!
Cliff started this act in 1988 and continues as a solo act today.

Cliff misses his music a great deal as recently he has fought a battle with bladder cancer which has prevented him from performing presently, he has successfully done well to control his cancer to remission and would like to get back into the swing of things with his music!

The songs chosen for this site are from an album that he and Anna Perreault put together called, "Boomerang"!

Anna Perreault sings harmony on the chorus lines and duets with Cliff Dawe on various songs throughout the album.

Cliff is an independent artist who came close to being signed with Warner Brothers ( Canada Ltd. ) and was offered a contract by Comstock Records executive Frank Fara out of Scottsdale, Arizona, but because of difficulties dealing and commuting back and forth between Canada and USA the deal didnt materialize!

Cliff also had the same experience with Joey Welz of Caprice Records out of Philidelphia, so I guess lightning does strike twice!

Hence, there is a situation in getting airplay on , Main Stream radio in being an "Independent as well as being a Traditional Country Singer, and that is why he only sends his music to radio stations and media that are interested in Independent artists!

During 1990 1991 Cliff received extensive air-play in Europe and Canada from compilations with RDR promotions out of Toronto. Cliff presently gets regular airplay from KSEN Radio in Shelby Montana, Radio Artistopia and indieboom.com the latter a brand new internet station!

Why this name?
Little Big Band was chosen due to the fact that when we started off we tried out several musicians to create our band and sound but couldn't come up with members that fit with Anna Perreault and Cliff Dawe musically and when they found members that fit musically, then those members didn't fit personality wise!


So what they had to do was go out and purchase a synthesizer, so that drums, bass etc. could be implemented into their sound to fill in for the missing players!
As Cliff played rhythm guitar, Anna played piano and synthesizer - this filling in and their strong harmonies in voice made the duo sound like a full band! - This large sound that they had between the two of them is what made them decide to name themselves, "Little Big Band", and were registered as such.

They had no knowledge at the time that Colin James was about to call his band, "Colin James and His Little Big Band". That is why you will sometimes see "Little Big Band", ( Canadian Country Version ) written beside Cliff and Anna's band to distinguish between the two!

Later on in their road travels they found musicians that were compatible with them and expanded.