Last November Sarah performed at the first annual Art of Time Ensemble Gala Benefit, a unique fundraising event that was held at Integral House in Toronto, ON. Before that event, the ensemble got together to record an album of pieces selected from the Songbook series, which they had performed a couple years earlier. The Art of Time Ensemble featuring Sarah Slean, Black Flowers thus includes songs by Leonard Cohen, Sarah Harmer, Mary Margaret O'Hara, John Southworth, Hawskley Workman, Feist, and more, all arranged for classical ensemble and voice. Sarah Hope Slean (born on 21 June 1977) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, painter, and photographer from Pickering, Ontario. She has released seven albums to date (including EPs and live albums). She recorded her first EP Universe (1997) at the age of nineteen and has since completed four studio albums, Blue Parade (1998), Night Bugs (2002), Day One (2004), and The Baroness (2008).Her second EP The Baroness Redecorates was released on December 9, 2008.