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Happy Canada Day Everyone!
Posted by ganglesprocket on 1 July 2011 - 10:38am.
Today is Canada Day! So to celebrate the coming together of this fine nation, feel free to post your favorite Canadian related stuff here.
I will begin with this song which I find oddly touching. According to BJ Snowden "In Canada, they treat you like a queen, and folks never can be mean." Amen to that.
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And I have just found this tune...
... in a similar vein, Oh Canada by Five Iron Frenzy
Spirit of the West - Home for a Rest
Poutine. Yum!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine
Chips covered in gravy and brown sauce?
You'd never guess a lot of these guys are descended from Scots, would you?
*salivates*
Al Purdy (1918-2000)
Top poet!
"This is the country of our defeat and
yet
during the fall plowing a man
might stop and stand in a brown valley of the furrows
and shade his eyes to watch for the same
red patch mixed with gold
that appears on the same
spot in the hills
year after year
and grow old
plowing and plowing a ten acre field until
the convolutions run parallel with his own brain —
And this is a country where the young
leave quickly
unwilling to know what their fathers know
or think the words their mothers do not say —"
(excerpt from "The Country North of Belleville")
k.d Lang's great album Hymns of the 49th Parallel
dedicated to songs by Canadian songwriters covers a lot of bases of fantastic Canadian musicians - Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Jane Siberry. I'dd add Gordon Lightfoot and Sarah McLachlan to the list as well. Here's kd's lovely version of Hallelujah from that album
Canadian Amp
As does honorary Canadian Neko Case's "Canadian Amp".
Here's her version of Sook-Yin Lee's "Knock Loud"
O Canada
HAIL to Canada...
It's the United States of America, but done properly.
By which you mean to say
It's the US with no guns and better healthcare.
Played in America - Made In Canada
Joe Thornton, St Thomas Ontario's favourite son...
Roberston
Davies' The Cornish Trilogy
Made me look at art with completely different eyes.
As per my comment in another thread
all hail the great Eugene Levy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Levy
who I hadn't realised was Canadian. No one on Earth could deliver the line "I never did it with baked goods" half as well as he did, and that, it seems from the Wiki entry, is just the beginning of his talents ...
The Nines
And Diana Krall singing about Departure Bay
I'm not your friend, buddy