All Posts Tagged With: "Skeleton Park"
The Skeleton Park Community Songbook: Rueben deGroot with the Grad Club
Last year, we proudly featured a majority of the songs released as a part of the Skeleton Park Community Songbook, a collaborative project paring 12 Kingston community groups and local professional musicians. The songbook not only reflects the rich diversity of the local community but it also encourages Kingstonians to share music together and learn [...]
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The Skeleton Park Community Songbook: Kyra and Tully with the Grand Theatre
Today I’m thrilled to share the most recent addition to the Skeleton Park Community Songbook featuring Kyra and Tully, as well as huge cast of musician friends and volunteers from the Grand Theatre. Kyra and Tully describe the inspiration of their song titled ‘Love in all These Things’ as follows: The song, which celebrates family [...]
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The Skeleton Park Community Songbook: PS I Love You and The Sleepless Goat Choir
When I first caught wind of the Skeleton Park Community Songbook project, I wanted to spread the good word and share the first video from the series featuring PS I Love You and The Sleepless Goat Choir. There was a slight problem though, as we’d already featured a video by PS I Love You earlier [...]
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The Skeleton Park Community Songbook: Unconscious Encore
Unconscious Encore is one of those talked about bands that garnered some decent buzz, and in spite of my best intentions to check them out live, I’ve somehow failed to do so. This local group delivers an original blend of alternative hip hop that’s jam packed with unique instrumentation and real, honest lyrics. They’ve been [...]
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The Skeleton Park Community Songbook: The Gertrudes
In my search for some good tunes to share and help set us up for a fantastic Fall weekend, I came across the latest addition to the Skeleton Park Community Songbook. Hopefully you’ve heard of this project already, but in case you haven’t the Skeleton Park Community Songbook is being led by organizers of the [...]
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Skeleton Park Sing-along
The entire community is invited to an outdoor sing-along at Skeleton Park. Bring your guitar, your voice, and a comfortable chair for an evening of music making. Suggest songs for the set list right here and link to chords and lyrics. Let’s play it all – from nursery rhymes to classic rock ballads, Canadiana and [...]
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The Skeleton Park Community Songbook: Jenny Whiteley & Joey Wright
The Skeleton Park Community Songbook is a project that’s being led by organizers of the Skeleton Park Music Festival, in collaboration with 12 different groups of local musicians, and various community organizations. Live recordings of all of the performances will be combined onto a compilation DVD, while the associate sheet music is also being made [...]
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The Skeleton Park Community Songbook with The Swamp Ward Orchestra and Rideau Public School
Last May we proudly featured the second video made available via the Skeleton Park Community Songbook project. Having noticed similar initiatives in other cities, I was truly excited about possible pairings of musicians and community groups, as well as the shared sheet music aspect. Unfortunately, subsequent releases associated with the songbook project have not been [...]
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Porch Jazz
The Kingston Arts Council is proud to present Porch Jazz. The free neighbourhood jazz performances feature a star-studded line-up of local musicians including Dave Barton, Greg Runions, The Limestone Trombone Quartet, The Sounds of Jazz Big Band, Paul Clifford and The Downtown Trio. Jazz Performances will start in the Skeleton Park Neighbourhood and parade down [...]
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Weekly Poll: Smoking Bylaw Expansion
Once upon a time you could do it in restaurants, movie theatres, taxi cabs, and even in classrooms. Doctors prescribed certain brands as a cure all, and Hollywood would have you believe that all the cool kids are doing it. In case you haven’t figured it out, I’m referring to darts, death sticks, smokes…cigarettes. Nearly ten [...]
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