Here's what people are saying about Lisa Maxx:

"Lisa Maxx presents a moving show you won't want to miss"

"She remembers learning about the power of performance when she was 12 at a Beaver Point Hall dance. The musicians would perform, delighting the audience, and the audience's delight would in turn fuel the musician's performance. I remember thinking 'what an amazing thing to be up there, to be able to sing and give this joy'" - Valerie Lennox, Gulf Islands Driftwood.

"Encore Please: Well-loved island musicians Kathy and Jane Stack and Lisa Maxx played to a standing ovation... [They] put on a solid show of well-written songs and body-swaying folk music.... Lisa's voice always has a beautiful strength to it but it seems to shift into a higher place when she sings about being debilitated by arthritis. In Walk the Walk, for example, her voice had an unexpectedly haunting quality that brought out tears... It is interesting how this kind of songwriting and folk music makes us connect with our feelings."

"Spirits soared over the Salt Spring Festival of the Arts when Buffy Sainte-Marie and Lisa Maxx sang to a crowded Activity Center…The room was incredibly hot and stuffy when Maxx began her set, but even so she held the stage well with her songs of love and sorrow… Many faces shone with tears after she shared her joy in discovering angels all around her in life. After [‘Angels Do Watch] the overheated audience asked for an encore.’" – Kerry Roth, Gulf Islands Driftwood.

"Close Encounters of a Feathered Kind, a combination slide presentation and mini-concert by Salt Spring residents Lisa Maxx and Jonathan Grant, raised $2000,00 [for Salt Spring Conservancy]… The pair also received an enthusiastic response from the crowd at [University of Victoria’s] Lam Auditorium. …Maxx struck a deep chord with her tragic tale of Terra Nova, an area of land in the Lower Mainland [of BC] once a rich and diverse mix of wildlife, that in spite of concentrated efforts to save it, fell prey to the developer’s bulldozer." - Gulf Islands Driftwood.

"...there was this feeling [in there] - the applause, and the support...Lisa Maxx singing her songs she had made up for the event...it just felt so empowering and exciting..." - Gulf Islands Driftwood.

"When the divinely inspired Lisa Maxx took centre stage even the trees seemed to be listening as she shared her uplifting songs of love and sorrow. The … crowd remained transfixed… As she sang I Ya (I love you) she became a manifestation of pure spirit and an inspiration to all." - Kerry Roth, Gulf Islands Driftwood.

"Lisa Maxx's pain-killers are served up in bars, half-notes and quarter-notes, spilling...from her guitar, soaring on her voice. When she is performing [she] is transported beyond the pain that imprisons her, which, at its worst hampers her ability to stand, to walk and to sleep. ‘Music is the one thing that really helps me,’ she says. She has been told that when she is performing the beast is soothed and the pain reflected in her face fades. 'It’s true, she says, when she performs, the pain is gone.'" – Valorie Lennox, Gulf Islands Driftwood.

"[Lisa Maxx was] singing about angels (and people who know her voice might say it sounds like an angel)… [one] song she has written is called "While Angels do Watch." Another is "Walk the Walk," which is about hitting bottom and turning upward. ‘I feel like arthritis has run my life for…years and now I’m reclaiming [my life],’ she said." - Tanya Lester, Gulf Islands Driftwood.

"Although physically Maxx cannot [always] push herself, musically she is stretching boundaries as far as she can… Given a choice between giving in and going [on] with as much gusto as she can, Maxx chooses the gusto. 'I might as well laugh,' she says. And on a similar note, she might as well sing." – Valorie Lennox, Gulf Islands Driftwood.

"Recording my music has been a dream of a lifetime, really,” said Maxx just after receiving her [CD’s]… Maxx is well known on [Salt Spring] Island for her vocal and songwriting talents, and for pursuing them regardless of the “curve balls” that came her way. Those ranged from becoming a single parent to dealing with the sudden and severe onset of rheumatoid arthritis and debilitating fibromyalgia… despite her illnesses Maxx continues to sing and to perform" - Gulf Islands Driftwood.

"Lisa unveiled Winged Doves of Peace to commemorate the events of September 11. This song breathed sorrowful hope for people to join together to open their hearts and let love heal the pain of suffering."

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