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Add comment December 2nd, 2007 11:17pm kerri
Salut my favourite listener!
Well, mes amis, I’m back. Born under that wandering star, I have delighted in wandering from coast to coast across this magnificent land of ours,exploring its vast beauty, learning its history, its culture, its music, and its diversity, letting it speak to me. Here on Valley Heritage Radio, it will be my privilege to be your tour guide for a musical ride across the melody that is Canada’s song.
Welcome to Ballads of A Blind Man, every Monday evening at 7 P.M. cjhr - 98. 7 on the FM dial.
When the first Europeans came to Canada they found a land of tall timber, bursting with fish, lush furs, peopled by the inuit and first nations, people who understood her ways. The ships that followed would bring fishermen,then explorers and fur-traders, followed by settlers. With them, they would bring their own stories and songs. With time, this land would seep into their hearts and souls, creating her own music. The tall ships would come again and again, drawn by the food, the furs, the forests, the wealth, the vastness.
Ballads of A Blind Man takes the listener on a musical voyage of discovery of Canada’s history, the successes and the mistakes. This is a land rich in history and rich in future promise, but as songwriter/balladeer, Oscar Brand said, we are a quiet people, not inclined to sing our own praises. Ballads of A Blind Man does just that, sharing Canada’s story with you, my favourite listener.
The music you will hear is, heritage music, for the most part,the work of talented Canadians, songwriters and artists. Music that gives a voice to this country and to its people past and present. Canada’s story is still not fully written; her final song has not been sung, but with artists such as The North Algona All Stars, Kettle Valley Brakemen, Stan Rogers, Fraser Union, David Francey, Glen Reid, The Travellers, Stringband, Lightfoot, Tanglefoot, and a plethora of others, have worked to give us a national voice. Their music is here, waiting to be heard, ready to share our story. It is my pleasure and privilege to take this music and put it to work to tell that story for cjhr listeners, and most of all for you, my favourite listener..
I look forward to spending Monday evenings with you as much as I enjoy hearing from you. Letters can be sent c/o Valley Heritage Radio Box 945, Renfrew Ontario, K7V 4H4
E-mail addressed to kerri@balladsofablindman.org or to kerri@valleyheritageradio.ca is always appreciated.
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Que Dieu te benisse, kerri
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