Siyahamba - Audrey Gunther Tribute

MP3 DOWNLOAD

A massive THANK YOU to everyone who contributed to the recording project - I've had a great deal of feedback from various folks saying how much they appreciated what we did. I think it was a great way to Honour Mrs. Gunther, so kudos to all for your efforts! Shout outs are given to you below!

Musician Credits
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Laurie Callao - Soprano voice

Jessie Soong - Alto voice

Richard Lee-Ying - Tenor voice

Matthew McGuigan: Bass voice/flutes/clarinet

Erin Macleod: Soprano voice/double bass

Jillian Beacon: Alto

Heather Gamber: Tenor voice/bassoon

Audrey Gunther Tribute Recording

Alright everybody, as you may be aware, the 3rd anniversary of Mrs. Gunther's tragic passing is next weekend (Oct 17). I know there's more than a few people out there who miss her every bit as much as I do, and if you're one of those people, I think you'll probably agree that we might as well try to do what we can to commemorate her amazing life and the impact she had on all of us.

Since I'm living away from Calgary, I'm not going to be able to attend any memorial gatherings in town, which I'm very sad about. Nonetheless, I was throwing ideas around with one James Billingsley a little while ago, and we came up with what I thought was a pretty nifty tribute idea.

What we want to do is produce a recording of the tune "Siyahamba" that we always used to sing in choir, with as many ex-Gunther students as we can get singing on it. I've prepared a compressed folder download with the full 4-voice arrangement, as well as the 4 isolated vocal parts, played on piano. What we need YOU to do is this:

1. Download the recording template folder

2. Using Garageband or whatever audio recording method is convenient for you, record yourself singing your vocal part along with the template download (wear headphones so the keyboard track doesn't get picked up by your microphone!). Singing along with the template will allow us all to be in unison tempo and pitch, even though we're all doing this in different places. If you need a little bit of help, here's a few links:

"siyahamba" sung by an actual choir (in case you forget how the words go and stuff!)
"siyahamba" printed lyrics

3. send me the recording of JUST YOUR VOICE (by email, or zshare, mediafire, whatever) so that I can compile all the different voices and mix together a master recording of everyone singing together. Please email me at brendanmcguigan@shaw.ca

And that's it! What I would really like to do (pipe dream maybe?) is release the master recording next weekend as a charity download mp3, with all proceeds going towards starting a fund for an Audrey Gunther Memorial Scholarship Fund. HOWEVER, in order to do that we need to make the recording first! So, if you have the equipment and technical know-how to record yourself, or if you know someone else who does, please consider taking the time to add your voice to what I hope will be a lovely tribute to a very meaningful teacher who meant the world to a whole lot of us. If you have any other questions please do not hesitate to email me at brendanmcguigan@shaw.ca

Oh, and please don't worry about trying to make a note-perfect, high-quality recording. I don't want anybody losing any sleep over this. It is not a big deal if your recording has a tiny difference in rhythm from the template, or if it's a little hissy, or quiet, or whatever. Just send me whatever you can throw together, and I'll handle the rest. I think the most important thing is to have as many different people on this recording as we can, so don't let trying to make a professional-sound recording stand in the way of you getting your track to me. That being said, if you can send the recording in .wav format, that would be ideal.

Thanks guys and gals, and hope to hear from you soon!

Oh, and happy Thanksgiving! Everyone chill with your families and take 'er easy now

-Brendan

sept 11 2009

all of me
when you're smiling
busted (ray charles)
let's go get stoned (ray charles)
see you in my dreams
kiss to build a dream on
sunny side of the street
daydream - (lovin spoonful)
That's life (sintra)
You make me feel so young
All the things you are
mack the knife
you rascal you
I dont care if the sun don't shine

fly me to the moon
that's amore
Makin' whoppee
Cheek to cheek
you've got a friend in me (randy newman
I don't care if the sun don't shine (elvis)
I've got you under my skin
lonesome town (ricky nelson)
My romance
a nightingale sang in berkeley square
old man river
somewhere over the rainbow
rainbow connection
Night and Day
Don't get around much anymore

My New Address!

14 Denison Square
Toronto, ON
M5T 1K8

August 24 - Auburn

The Field - Yesterday and Today
The Field - I Have the Moon, You Have the Internet
Bill Frisell - Blues for Los Angeles
Bill Frisell - I Heard it Through the Grapevine
Medeski, Martin, Scofield and Wood - Little Walter Rides Again
Medeski, Martin, Scofield and Wood - Legalize It
Wilco - You Never Know
The Sea and Cake - Up On Crutches
Tennishero - Midnight Love
Phoenix - Fences
Phoenix - Lisztomania (Classixx remix)
Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights (Erol Alkan's Love From Below Re-Edit)
Cut Copy - Rendezvous
Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
Nina Simone - Sinnerman (Felix Da Housecat's Heavenly House Mix)
Cut Copy - Saturdays
Lo-Fi-Fnk - City (The Teenagers Remix)
Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (The Teenagers Remix)
Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover
James Brown - Rapp Payback (Where Iz Moses)
The Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive (Teddybears Remix)
Empire of the Sun - Walking On a Dream
Lemon Jelly - '76 (Stay With You)
Bob Dylan - Rocks and Gravel (Jahbil Remix)
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
Classixx - I'll Get You (feat. Jeppe)
Chromeo - Needy Girl (Bloc Party Remix)
Athlete - Hurricane (Camp America Remix)
M.I.A. - Paper Planes (DFA Remix)
Lemon Jelly - The Staunton Lick
Florence and the Machine - You've Got the Love
The Teenagers - Make it Happen
The Twelves - Episode II
1 - Zeigeist - Humanitarianism (The Twelves Replay)
2 - Radiohead - Reckoner (The Twelves Replay)
3 - Mirwais - Naive Song
4 - Of Montreal - Gronlandic Edit
5 - David E. Sugar - To Yourself
6 - The Virgins - Rich Girls (The Twelves Replay)
7 - Daft Punk - Voyager
8 - Jupiter - CHIP
Metro Area - Dance Reaction
Cut Copy - Feel the Love
Junior Senior - Headphone Song
Hey Champ - Cold Dust Girl
La Roux - In For the Kill (Lifelike remix)
Pnau - Baby (Breakbot remix)
80Kidz - Getting You Off (Feat. Hey Champ)
Michael Jackson - P.Y.T.
Marina and the Diamonds - I Am Not a Robot (Starsmith remix)
French Horn Rebellion - Beaches and Friends (Hey Champ remix)
Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone (Deadmau5 remix)

Then my laptop shut down unexpectedly! Good Night Everybody!

Canadian Dance Party Tour?

Hey guys and gals!

Here's the deal: I'm moving to Toronto at the end of this month (leaving calgary around the 30th) and I'm thinking of using it as an opportunity to rock a guerilla-style dance party DJ tour. Bascially, I am going to be greyhounding from Calgary to Toronto, so if you live between those two cities and you want to host a party, I will make a stop in your town and put on a mad dance party show! I think this could be a real cool project, which, if successful, will be proof that we can use the internet to do unbelievably cool things! (not that we didn't know that anyway)

My first show in Toronto is on sept 4, so any shows would need to happen between aug 30 and sept 4. Small window, I know.... short notice, I also know! But I just had this idea today and I though, well, why not see what my internet friends/fans think!


Cool? If you're interested in helping me move to Toronto in style and have a synthpop tour on the way, give me a shout via my website and we'll make this happen!

Long and McQuade

wedding rental

4 mains
4 monitors
snake
a bunch of xlr cables
5 58s
5 stands
3 DIs

firebox - doesn't have midi? is there one that does?

gtr strings (12s)
picks