sust-mar: O Beautiful Gaia - CD Launch

Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 07:32:39 -0400
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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

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