Brown and Fenner were founding members of the Canadian
alternative rock group
Bourbon Tabernacle Choir in the 1980s. They released their debut album ''Other People's Heavens'' in 1997, and toured extensively in the United States as an opening act for
Ani DiFranco and in Canada as an opening act for
Weeping Tile. Brown also spent some time as a supporting musician in
Barenaked Ladies, during
Kevin Hearn's hiatus from the band for cancer treatment; he and Fenner simultaneously played some dates together as an opener for Barenaked Ladies during that tour. They then released
Geronimo in 1999, and supported the album with further touring both on their own and as an opening act for
The Tragically Hip's
Music @ Work tour in 2000, also participating as supporting musicians in the Hip's headlining sets. They recorded their next album, 2001's
O Witness, at The Tragically Hip's
Bathouse Recording Studio. In the same year Brown organized the compilation album
GASCD, which featured musical and spoken word tracks as a fundraiser to cover the legal costs of the
anti-globalization activists who had been arrested at the
Quebec City Summit of the Americas earlier in the year. The album included Brown and Fenner's own song "How You Gonna Bring Your Children to God?" and activist speakers including
Maude Barlow and
Naomi Klein. In 2003 they released
Songs, a two-CD rerelease of the by then out of print ''Other People's Heavens
and Geronimo
, along with a non-album track, "Resist War", which was distributed as a free Internet download. At the same time, Brown and Fenner each released solo albums, although their tour to support the albums was still undertaken as a duo. They released their sixth and final album as a duo, Go On'', in 2004. Following
Go On they stopped recording under the Chris Brown and Kate Fenner name, instead each pursuing solo careers, although they continued to collaborate on each other's recordings and in live performances. In 2005 they were commissioned to write "Chansons du Salamandre", a song cycle supporting
Mystery on Fifth Avenue project; the song "Salamandre" was covered by Sarah Harmer on her album ''
I'm a Mountain''. ==Discography==