Irene Bridger is a gospel musician from Twillingate, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.[1] She has worked with audio engineer Dean Stairs.[2]A Heart Full of Love was her first album.[3] In 2005, she released her second album, You.[4] The title track from this album was written by Ada Jenkins, a friend of Bridger.[5] Bridger's album Living Prayer was nominated in the Inspirational Album of the Year category at the 2007 Covenant Awards.[6] She was featured on Hope in the Midst of a Storm, a 2008 album produced in support of the Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre.[7] Also in 2008, she performed at Gander Pentecostal Church as part of MusicNL's annual awards and conference.[8] She was nominated for the title of Female Artist of the Year at the 2010 MusicNL awards. The other nominees were Mary Barry, Teresa Ennis, Kellie Loder, and Amelia Curran.[9] In 2012, Bridger released Coming Home, an EP inspired by the music of Newfoundland and Labrador. Despite never having fully written a song herself before, she wrote all of the songs on this album herself.[10]
