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Tip: Your message to SUST-MAR must be html-free. So, BEFORE you hit SEND, please go to your "Format" pull-down menu and select "Plain text." Thanks! ____________________________________________________________________________ CD Launch “O Beautiful Gaia ~ Love Songs to Earth” HALIFAX - Friday, November 28, 2003 7:30 pm for 8 pm program of singing United Memorial Church, 5375 Kaye Street, CHARLOTTETOWN - Sunday, November 30, 2003 3 – 5 pm Carriage House, Beaconsfield West Street, Charlottetown, PEI GAIA SINGS TO THE WORLD FROM HERE “O Beautiful Gaia ~ Love Songs to Earth” is a uniquely continental recording that will be launched in two Maritime locations next week - in Halifax on Friday evening, November 28 at United Memorial Church on Kaye Street and in Charlottetown on Sunday afternoon, November 30 at Beaconsfield on West Street. In both locations some of the fifty Maritime women who sang and played on the recording will gather again to perform selections from the recording and celebrate the completion of this phase of the “O Beautiful Gaia” project. The Halifax launch will take place at 7:30 pm and in Charlottetown at 3 pm. Receptions will follow and copies of the CD will be available for purchase. All are welcome and admission is free. Warning: this program may cause tears, laughter and the urge to sing along and dance. Discretion ill advised. For several years women have gathered in places throughout North America to create intentional communities of song with composer and visionary Carolyn McDade. These communities express the dedication to sustain life on the planet. In early 2002, McDade invited women from three bioregions, Atlantic Canada, Atlantic New England and Great Lakes Basin (Windsor/Detroit) to create and record a body of music with her. She describes the project, “In these turbulent times I invite friends to share some reflection on our world. To what do we bring our clear, passionate dissent and to what do we bring our clear, passionate assent?” Singers from three regions began the work of organizing, rehearsing the music and raising the money. The thirty-four tracks on the double CD involve 150 singers and instrumentalists unique to each region. In Atlantic Canada, Cape Breton fiddler Mairi Rankin was one musician who contributed an original tune inspired by the project and Hilary Brown, a cellist with Symphony Nova Scotia and Blue Engine Music improvised on several pieces. The music from “O Beautiful Gaia” is already moving into wider communities that share a longing for a connection to life that is more than survival; that deeply respects the rights of all species to continue on. In late September of this year, the Atlantic Canadian singers were invited to sing at the annual meeting of the Nova Scotia Woodlot Owners and Operators Association (NSWOOA) in the Musquodoboit Valley. President Tom Miller responded to the music, “It was a rare moment, a special sound in a place that is far more than a workplace for us. For those of us who feel the spirit of the trees, it was probably the sound we would make in the woods if we could.” The O Beautiful Gaia recording project was funded through private donations and advance sales of the CD. All proceeds from future sales of the CD will go toward education, advocacy, and action in the preservation and restoration of community lands and waters. For more information about the “O Beautiful Gaia” project and to order the CD go to <www.gis.net/~surtsey/mcdade/gaia> -30- Contact: Pat Kipping (902)453-2479 Apologies for any cross-postings. ____________________________________________________________________________ Did a friend forward this to you? Join sust-mar yourself! Just send 'subscribe sust-mar' to mailto:majordomo@chebucto.ca
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