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In addition to her two solo albums, Oak Lake and Lucky Blue,Tannis has put out albums with the Bird Sisters and Benji, contributed songs to compilation albums, provided support vocals for numerous albums and played mandolin on others.

The Bird Sisters released 3 albums:
FLO (1990) 
Different Stories (1992) 
She & She & She (1995) 

Benji released 2 albums:
John Charlton (1998) 
Benji II (1999)


Songs on 15 Compilation albums:

SXSW Live Volume 1
(1993) (with the Bird Sisters) 
Live @ The Winnipeg Folk Festival Volume 1 (1997) 
(with the Bird Sisters) 
Truck Songs (DROG) (1997) 
Music for Peace (DROG) (1999) 
Food Songs (DROG) (1999) 
Work Songs (DROG) (2001)
Sixty Second Songs (DROG) (2002)
Muddy River Stringers - A Christmas Wish (1996) 
Take Back the Night (1999) (with the Bird Sisters) 
Hillside Festival Volume 1 (1999) (with Benji) 
City of Music - A Guelph Compilation (Barking Swan Records, 2002)
Not There (RSD, Guelph) (2004)
Afghanistan - On Guard For Thee? (DROG) (2007)
North To Ontario 2007 (distributed by Tom McCreight) (2007)
Music In Movies (Twisted Pines Festival compilation) (2008)

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Harmony Vocals on:

"A Buried Heart" project The Streets Where You Live
(also on Women & Songs 6)

Astronauts'
Mr. Whatever Is Here Tonight

Robert Atyeo's
Angels on a Cliff
Heart Like A Rubber Ball

Danny Bakan's "...And Truth Is Spectacular"

Bare Naked Ladies' Gordon


Willie P. Bennett's Heartstrings

Max Bent's The Blues You Have

Laura Bird's The Water In Between

Black Cabbage's A Recording by Black Cabbage

Don Bray's
Chosen
Taxi Moon & I

The Buddagrass Family Unit's
Introducing The Buddhagrass Family Unit

Nick Craine's November Moon

Douglas John's Rainbows
(with the Bird Sisters)

DROG's Truck Songs
compilation album 
with Big Smoke, Crows Feet, Lewis Melville, Two Thirds Water and John Charlton 

DROG's Music For Peace compilation album 
with Josh Finlayson and Benji 

DROG's 60 Second Songs compilation album
  with Danny Bakan and  Michael Johnson

Vicki Fraser's Dynamite Opening


The Funky Mamas' Pickin' in the Garden

Eve Goldberg's 
Crossing The Water
A Kinder Season

James Gordon's
Mining For Gold: Twenty Years of Songwriting
Looking For Livingston (on vinyl) and 
Farther Along (with the Bird Sisters) 

James Clark Jones' the days of convenience

the kramdens' Radio For Now


Grit Laskin's
A Few Simple Words 

Jane Lewis's Jane Lewis

Beth Martens'  Where There's Beauty

Lewis Melville's
Niagara
Not Really A Bluegrass Album
Noah's Work

Muddy River Stringer's Life's Too Short

Open Voices' A Random Act of Culture

Rosemary Phelan's
Wake The Nightingale
Come Bright September

Rheostatics'
Whale Music
The Whale Music Concert - Sets #1 and #2

Mike Sharp - June

Jim Slansky's Passenger

Charlie Sohmer's Dying To Have A Good Time

Gwen Swick's CBC compilation series recording

Dave Teichroeb's
Dog Tales

Yesterday Motel

Pat Temple & The High Lonesome Player's  Stone Boat 

Tony Turner's The Lost Sketches

Sam Turton's At Home

Two Thirds Water Glass Bottom Boat

Jude Vadala's Do You Ever

Valdy's  Viva Valdy - Live At Last
 
Katherine Wheatley's Landed

The Woodchoppers Association & Abdoulaye Kone's self titled album


The Woodchoppers Association & Jah Youssouf's self titled album

Luther Wright and the Wrong's Roger's Waltz 


And these albums without links:

The Goods - a Guelph compilation (with Vicki Fraser) 

StevenSteve and the Big Smoke (cassette) 

Moose - The Compilation (with Big Smoke) 

Moose Lodge (with Big Smoke)

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Mandolin on:

Needy Fingers' Trials of this Lonely Man

The Woodchopper's Association's You Buy From Me - a benefit album for Cambodia
(with Lewis Melville and Lyn Vasey)
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With Lucky Blue and Oak Lake, Tannis appears on a total of 81 albums.

DESIGN: CHRIS MacLEAN /
CONTACT: tannis@tannis.ca