It's Canada Day Up Canada Way - I need some help
Well, I like to ask for some suggestions for our 12th annual Canada Day Garden Party.
We're dedicating this year's party to Stomping Tom. He was a great Canadian with strong convictions
and a terrific sense of our country. He's sadly missed.
In honor of his memory, this year's mix needs to be entirely Canadian, although we'll consider
a suggestion with a strong Canadian connection. We'd like a few interesting anthems, lots of cities and it doesn't
have to have a connection to the Garden (but is appreciated).
Of course we'll be featuring some of your's & our's favourite Stomping Tom tunes. I'm counting on you Canadians to give us a hand.
We'll kick it off with Canada Day Up Canada Way - youtube video
-always
Ps I'm also counting on everyone else. Party starts at noon and runs till 6.
ETA....oops, I've been reminded it's our 13th party.
We're dedicating this year's party to Stomping Tom. He was a great Canadian with strong convictions
and a terrific sense of our country. He's sadly missed.
In honor of his memory, this year's mix needs to be entirely Canadian, although we'll consider
a suggestion with a strong Canadian connection. We'd like a few interesting anthems, lots of cities and it doesn't
have to have a connection to the Garden (but is appreciated).
Of course we'll be featuring some of your's & our's favourite Stomping Tom tunes. I'm counting on you Canadians to give us a hand.
We'll kick it off with Canada Day Up Canada Way - youtube video
-always
Ps I'm also counting on everyone else. Party starts at noon and runs till 6.
ETA....oops, I've been reminded it's our 13th party.
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Of course there's always Bruce Cockburn (Toronto). Less obvious garden songs might include Spring Song (from self-titled debut) or Seeds on the Wind from Salt, Sun & Time or Gavin's Woodpile from In the Falling Dark.
Damian Valles (from The Kawartha Lakes according to his Soundcloud) - Ridge and Furrow (from Bow Echoes) is Canadian and garden-oriented, though not garden party music - but hey, two out of three ain't bad. Come to think of it my collection is probably not a good place to trawl for garden party things if you want the guests to stay. (Might be useful towards the end though).
Then there's Foret citadine (or better still, though less garden-tied, Enchant
http://www.amazon.com/Over-Canada-An-Aerial-Adventure/dp/B00004WH63
(I hate this tablet. If I would have been using my PC I would have got it right. It's so unhandy to type text for me. Especially when it corrects my words and turns them into something really ridiculous.)
Thanks!
It continues here. If the rain starts up again I may be back
Sail Away To The Sea, The Briar And The Rose & Anthem
'Round This Time of Year
Où la route mène & Jours de plaine (feat. Jorane)
Little Streams Make Big Rivers, Sprouts & Au Crepuscule, Sans Laisse
Spring Song & Musical Friends
Seeds On The Wind
Storm Doors
Enchantée & Foret citadine
There you have it - Rask gets caught out of the crease and game over.
We have a little experience with sports futility here in Chicago as well! But not this time
Let's not forget Harris Eisenstadt.
Thanks, I've just met him. I'm adding
Every Day Is Canada Day
To Be
Settled
The Ombudsman 1-4
You have to have something from The Weakerthans.
Thanks, we're old friends. I'm adding
Left and leaving
The Reasons, Psalm for the Elks Lodge Last Call, A New Name for Everything &
One Great City!
Illustrated Bible Stories for Children & Last Last One
Constellation
Bird As Prophet, Colourblind & Surprise!
Migrations
John K. Samson - Bruce Beckons (Bruce Peninsula, ON)
Christine Fellows - Marr Lake (Bruce Peninsula, ON)
Sam Shalabi - Mountaintop (Gros Morne, NL)
Sam Roberts - Wapusk (Wapusk, MB)
Tim Hecker - Pond Life (from An Imaginary Country).
Thanks, I'm also adding
Sea of Pulses, Pond Life & Where Shadows Make Shadows
the last (I hope!) game of the Stanley Cup Finals, eh?
Thanks, I'll choose these gems on your behalf.
The Hockey Song & The Consumer youtube
-always
Pretty snappy little tune, as these things go...It was written by the ad-man father of pop star Richard Marx.
Obvious, but many fave indie pop/rock bands are Canadian, of course: Stars, Mother Mother, Metric, Arcade Fire, New Pornographers, etc.
Bob and Doug Mckenzie
Take off to the Great White North
Some suggestions from some fine folks over at Emusic
The Future Is A Fever
Rheostatics - Woodstuck
Saskatchewan
Yours to Discover & What's Left Behind
Eastern Winds
All Lies
Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - Popcorn
Who Taught You to Live Like That
Gump Worsley's Lament
Isn't There
Big Best Summer
Box Of Hair
Mechanical Mind
The Longest Road
Lily
A Case Of You
Elvis' Rolls Royce - Featuring Leonard Cohen
Alanis Morissette - 20/20
Antony and the Johnsons - Daylight And The Sun
Bahamas - Sunshine Blues, You're Bored, I'm Old & For Good Reason
LAnse aux Meadows
Still Water
Shine
Waiting... & As Much As I Ever Could
Paradise & The Way It Used To Be
Sing In My Meadow
Dan Mangan - Reason To Think Aloud
Road Regrets
About As Helpful As You Can Be Without Being Any Help At All,
Daffodil & Leaves, Trees, Forest
Elgin Avenue & Who Cares
In The Belly of a Whale & Fireworks
Perfect
Little Buffalo
I Like Trains & 49Tons
Sweet Corn
I Will Never See The Sun
Changing Colours
Cornflower Blue
Tarantulove
All The Trees are Hers & Oh You Delicate Heart
When You Gonna Flower, Piano Blink & The City Is A Drag
A Thousand Suns
Parry Sound
Roll On Oblivion
Love Is A Dirty Word
Blues Skies & Rainy Day
Lady, K.D. Lang
Snowbird
Oscar Peterson - Tenderly
Dynamite Walls & Carried Away
Home By Saturday
-always
Ottawa's Fela/funk/Afro-Cuban/World/jazz-influenced Souljazz Orchestra
Bibinay, Kelen Ati Leen & Tanbou Lou
Bob and Doug Mckenzie
Take Off
Well, I believe I've caught up so I'm adding a few myself-
Calixa Lavallee - "O Canada" The National Anthem of Canada
O Canada! - O Canada English words by R. Stanley Weir & The Maple Leaf Forever
O Canada
O Canada (Version 2: Without reverb for use in large venues)
O Canada!
Mes Amis O Canada & Alberta Crude
My Alberta Home & I Love Country Life
(He was family and he's sadly missed)
Oh, Alberta
Take Me Back To Old Alberta
Wild Alberta Rose
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Frank, AB
Alan Mills - The Alberta Homesteader
Wade Hemsworth - The Black Fly Song
-always
* I will have to ensure that we do have some anthems that folks can sing along with at opportune times during the day.
Everything I Saw, Came So Easy & Yarrow And Mint
Can You See Her In My Eyes & Tomorrow Is Forever
East
The Trees
Edmonton, Lost In The Valley & Dance If You Want To
All The Stars, This Light & All The Time It Takes To Wait (Boston Version)
Calgary, Early Spring Outing & Long Dark Summer
The Storm & Man Under the Sea
Tracy's Waters, Where The Wild Things Are & Machinery Of The Heavens
Lighthouse & Adventures in Your Own Backyard
In The Blue Moonlight & On & On & On
-always
Number 100? Rush - Moving Waves. Tough list.
Then it was cleanup time
Like Schrodingers cats demise,
Howard and Lees Annual Canada Day Garden Party
simultaneously happens and does not happen, depending on whether you are there.
The only way to resolve this paradox is to show up.
Tuesday, July 1 Noon to 6 PM Rain or shine
So, according to Schrodinger and quantum theory, it is a fact: it cannot be a happening party without you!
Well, we've been pretty busy in the garden (or have we) and I couldn't figure out how to make this years invite show up on screen, so you'll have to imagine last years tribute to Stomping Tom inserted into the above.
If you'd like to include a Schrödinger's cat based tune into this years playlist
I'll do my best to try to get it. I'm starting it off with this
-always -Howard