PLUMTREE is a quartet from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Formed in 1993 when the sisters Gillis met up with Amanda Braden, Plumtree quickly established themselves as one of the more original young bands in Canada. With the addition of Catriona Sturton on bass, the band quickly developed a highly collaborative songwriting method which combined catchy melodies, a serious approach to writing music and solid instrumentation to produce the group's finest material to date.

Attracting attention when they were still in their mid-teens, PLumtree appeared on several compilation cds, released several 7" records, the FLUTTER BOARD ep, the MASS TEENFAINTING cd, their most recent cd, PLUMTREE PREDICTS THE FUTURE and 4 videos, for the most part on Halifax's CINNAMON TOAST label (JALE, REBECCA WEST, etc). All the group's releases received excellent press and campus radio with PREDICTS THE FUTURE holding the NUMBER 1 spot on Canadian Campus Radio for 4 weeks.

Recorded by Lawrence Currie (SLOAN, JALE), PTF featured solid rhythms under scoring bittersweet vocals and lyrics which focused on the light-hearted side of the human condition. The album earned the band a nomination for the East Coast Music Awards while the band's music and continuous hard work saw them honoured with a Youth Achievement Award from Canada's nationally broadcast Youth Television cable network (YTV).

Throughout their existence, the band has displayed their upbeat and contagious live show crossing Canada 4 times with bands like the SUPERFRIENDZ, THRUSH HERMIT, THE WEAKERTHANS and DUOTANG, doing several American dates, performing at festivals like New Music West, NXNE, Halifax On, East Coast Music Awards, Canadian Music Week, NEMO (Boston), Edgefest and playing with artists like MARY LOU LORD, VELOCITY GIRL, THE POSIES, SLOAN, SUPERCHUNK, B'EHL,THE BONADUCES and THE SPINANES. The band has also be featured on MUCH Music (the Canadian video channel), WTN (the Canadian cable channel women's tv), the OPEN MIKE SHOW (national Canadian talk show) and national radio programs such as RADIOSONIC and DEFINITELY NOT THE OPERA.