Sirens of Song is coming to the Key City Theatre and one of the women performing is Juno Award-winner Lynn Miles. Aside from performing with Melanie Doane, Catherine MacLellan and Annabelle Chvostek, starting Sept. 11, Miles has been busy writing and recording songs.

“I’ve written 600 songs so I decided that because I don’t want to forget them in my old age, I wanted to put them all together in the same format and I decided every six months I’d go in the studio and record 10 songs — just voice and guitar or voice and piano,” she said. “A lot of them have been on records that have already been produced and I wanted people to hear what they sounded like on their own, in their purest form, the way I write them.”

The first product of Miles’ ambitious plan is the double CD “Black Flowers.” She hadn’t planned on selling her CD on such a large scale.

“I did one and two (CDs) on my own, I sold it off my website and during my shows and then True North Records said they wanted to release it and they decided to release it as a double CD,” she said. “It’s sort of amazing because I thought of it as a very small, underground indie kind of project that my real fans who have been with me for a long time would appreciate. I thought I would sell it at my shows and off the web site and that would be the end of it but so far it’s been great. People really love the idea of it, they love the purity of it.”

She said she writes in cycles about subjects she’s exploring at the time. A review of her CD by the New York Times said, “Lynn Miles makes being forlorn sound like a state of grace.”

“I’ve been sort of investigating addiction and I lost my father this summer so I’ve been thinking a lot about life and death and so it’s kind of whatever I’m going through at the time,” Miles said. “It’s an interesting time to be an artist because there’s a lot of struggle and there’s a lot going on.”

That individual voice won’t be lost in the Sirens of Song concert on Saturday, Sept. 19. Audience members will get a taste of each artist’s unique style.

“We’re still us, we’re still individual song writers. The format is songwriter circle and that means we’ll all be on stage at the same time, we each play our own songs, we tell the story behind the songs and other people will sing harmony, play fiddle, so we sort of join each other in our songs,” Miles said. “Not everybody all at once but we’ll all be there and support the song however it needs to be supported, but we’re still kind of doing our own thing.”

She is a solo artist and has toured many times on her own, so she said she is looking forward to being on the road with Doane, MacLellan, and Chvostek.

“It’s so great to just hang out with members of the same tribe. Especially when they are all women, because the conversations are more estrogen injected,” she said. “There’s more talk about spirituality and books and stuff like that.”

During the concert people will hear fiddle, mandolin, piano, and guitar.

“It will be very beautiful, evocative and everyone’s pretty unique in what they do so there will be variety to it. I think it’s going to be a very full evening,” Miles said. “If you haven’t heard us, take a chance and come to the concert, you might enjoy yourself.”

Tickets to the Saturday, Sept. 19 concert are available at the Key City Theatre.