Blue Skies Music Festival
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Blue Skies Choir performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 6 2023
The Blue Skies Choir is a pickup choir that performs every year at the Blue Skies Music Festival. The choir was first formed back in the 1980’s by Andy Rush. There have been several choir directors over the years, currently Brad Mills who directed this choir, for the festival’s 50th anniversary. Comprised of a mix of experienced and new choir singers, the choir holds five rehearsals on Saturday and Sunday that lead to a short set on the Main Stage on Sunday evening. The set list for this 2023 performance is: As Long As I Have Music - Besig and Price; Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon, arr. by Shaw; Love Call Me Home - Seeger, arr. by Amidon; Wana Baraka - arr. by Kirchner; and Take Down ...
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Blue Skies 2023 - Sunday night, August 6, 2023 - Part 1 of 5 - The Blue Skies Choir
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Blue Skies 2023 - Sunday night, August 6, 2023 - Part 1 of 5 - The Blue Skies Choir
Greg Forbes performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 4, 2023
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Greg Forbes has the distinction as the first person to ever play at Blue Skies, in 1974 he was the first performer on stage at the very first festival. Greg started playing music back in the 1960s, first as a folk singer, then as a rocker. In the Fall of 1973, Greg moved into the cabin at Oskar Graf’s in Clarendon (next door to what is now the Blue Skies festival site), using it as base for gig...
Scott Cook performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 4, 2023
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Albertan native Scott Cook is the personification of the travelling troubadour. He's one of the hardest-working DIY troubadours on the road today, living out of his minvan and is averaging around 150 shows annually, including a dozen festivals. Scott has been doing this EVERY YEAR since 2007. His latest collection (of his seven albums), Tangle of Souls (2020), sets the record for liner notes. I...
Blue Skies 2023 - Friday night, August 4, 2023 - Part 1 of 3
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Blue Skies 2023 - Friday night, August 4, 2023 - Part 1 of 3
Shannon Linton performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 4, 2023
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Shannon Linton is a singer-songwriter, classically trained vocalist, music educator and choir director. She is also an indie musician, climate activist, and mother of two children who narrowly avoided a career in opera. This performance with Shannon's dream-team band from the summer of 2023 weaves together songs and stories to explore joy in spite of everything. aiming to lift both spirit and s...
Blue Skies 2023 - Friday night, August 4, 2023 - Part 2 of 3
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Blue Skies 2023 - Friday night, August 4, 2023 - Part 2 of 3
Angelique Francis performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 4, 2023
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Ottawa-native Angelique Francis is a singer-songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist with her feet planted in multiple genres - Blues, Soul, Folk, Americana, Jazz, Gospel and Rock. Angelique released her debut album "Kissed by the Blues" in 2018. Her second album, "Long River" (2023) won her a Juno Award for Blues Album of the Year. In addition to lead vocals, Angelique plays upright bass...
Blue Skies 2023 - Friday night, August 4, 2023 - Part 3 of 3
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Blue Skies 2023 - Friday night, August 4, 2023 - Part 3 of 3
Michael McNerney & Bruce Downey performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 5, 2023
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Mike McNerney performed as a tweener at the very first Blue Skies, back in 1974, and has dug outhouses and volunteered for garbage duty since then. Michael is back at this year's 50th Blue Skies, again as a tweener, this time as a duo with Bruce Downey, a Blue Skies perennial for many years and a banjo aficionado of no small renown. Michael and Bruce's performance is eclectic and enthusiastic.
Amanda Rheaume performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 5, 2023
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Amanda Rheaume's music and performances are soulful, inspiring, deeply personal and aim to make a difference. Born and raised in Ottawa, Rheaume is a proud member of the 2SLGHTQ community and a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario. (Her Objiwe/Anishinaabe ancestors are from Lac Seul, Ontario. She is the granddaughter of Eugène Rhéaume, one of Canada's first Métis Members of Parliament.) Amand...
Blue Skies 2023 - Saturday night, August 5, 2023 - Part 1 of 5
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Blue Skies 2023 - Saturday night, August 5, 2023 - Part 1 of 5
Klaassen performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 5, 2023
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Klaassen is an instrumental folk group from Toronto. Peter Klaassen plays the bass, Sam Clark plays the fiddle and Oisin Hannigan plays percussion. Their music is based on collaboration, creativity, and inter-genre exchange with compositions that are syntheses of Bluegrass and Old-time, Eastern European and Irish music. Reimagining North American traditional music with a contemporary global voc...
Medusa performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 5, 2023
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Medusa is Georgia Hathaway, Lea Kirstein, Marta Sołek, and Saskia Tomkins. These four women are reimagining the Western string quartet, incorporating instruments previously regarded as too ugly for “polite society” in dynamic arrangements that cross-pollinate the sounds of Middle Eastern, Scandinavian, Celtic, Appalachian, and Eastern European music, plus original tunes. The band aims to connec...
Blue Skies 2023 - Saturday night, August 5, 2023 - Part 2 of 5
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Blue Skies 2023 - Saturday night, August 5, 2023 - Part 2 of 5
Lennie Gallant performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 5, 2023
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Lennie Gallant performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 5, 2023
Blue Skies 2023 - Saturday night, August 5, 2023 - Part 3 of 5
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Blue Skies 2023 - Saturday night, August 5, 2023 - Part 3 of 5
Polky performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 5, 2023
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Polky performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 5, 2023
Blue Skies 2023 - Saturday night, August 5, 2023 - Part 4 of 5
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Blue Skies 2023 - Saturday night, August 5, 2023 - Part 4 of 5
Abondance performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 5, 2023
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Abondance performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 5, 2023
Rebecca Campbell performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 5, 2023
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Rebecca Campbell performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 5, 2023
Blue Skies 2023 - Saturday night, August 5 2023 - Part 5 of 5
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Blue Skies 2023 - Saturday night, August 5 2023 - Part 5 of 5
Dave Dawson performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 6, 2023
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Dave Dawson performance at the Blue Skies Music Festival - August 6, 2023
Basset the Band performance at the Blues Skies Music Festival - August 6, 2023
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Basset the Band performance at the Blues Skies Music Festival - August 6, 2023
Blue Skies 2023 - Sunday night, August 6 2023 - Part 2 of 6
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Blue Skies 2023 - Sunday night, August 6 2023 - Part 2 of 6
The Vaudevillian performance at the Blue Skies Music festival - August 6 2023
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The Vaudevillian performance at the Blue Skies Music festival - August 6 2023
The Lifers' performance at the Blue Skies Music festival - August 6 2023
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The Lifers' performance at the Blue Skies Music festival - August 6 2023
Blue Skies 2023 - Sunday night, August 6 2023 - Part 3 of 6
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Blue Skies 2023 - Sunday night, August 6 2023 - Part 3 of 6
Janice Jo Lee performance at the Blue Skies Music festival - August 6 2023
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Janice Jo Lee performance at the Blue Skies Music festival - August 6 2023
Blue Skies 2023 - Sunday night, August 6 2023 - Part 5 of 6
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Blue Skies 2023 - Sunday night, August 6 2023 - Part 5 of 6

Комментарии

  • @nubiaagripinabado8432
    @nubiaagripinabado8432 Месяц назад

    Hermoso! ❤

  • @kamicinta187
    @kamicinta187 3 месяца назад

    fuck canada you should come to a more beautiful communist country in australia. id see you. more than have the cannuks have commented. enjoyed thankyou.

  • @oceanle
    @oceanle 5 месяцев назад

    What’s the one song they sing about friends. I don’t see it here.

  • @billyboulet-gagnon3517
    @billyboulet-gagnon3517 9 месяцев назад

    Amazing sets friends!

  • @billyboulet-gagnon3517
    @billyboulet-gagnon3517 9 месяцев назад

    This is great, thank you friends!!!

  • @abcdefghjjklmnop
    @abcdefghjjklmnop 9 месяцев назад

    They captured the spirit of the song. The high harmony is nice.

  • @ottawagray
    @ottawagray 9 месяцев назад

    so happy that i get to hear this again. i had no idea that you were filming. thanks for uploading all these 2023 vids

  • @kriskozolanka2665
    @kriskozolanka2665 9 месяцев назад

    Yes...insanely Brilliant group...saw them a year ago at Stewart Park...embraced these musicians. And again at BLue Skies this past year..Good Old Time Bluesy Music!

  • @Mynameisnumber5
    @Mynameisnumber5 10 месяцев назад

    I can't believe I get to relive listening to my favourite music again from this festival!! Thank you so much for this!!!

  • @rainbowpeace13
    @rainbowpeace13 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you friends....this lifts me up!

  • @JaffaRoad
    @JaffaRoad 10 месяцев назад

    So nice to see this - We miss the whole Blue Skies vibe.

  • @johnsedgewick9433
    @johnsedgewick9433 10 месяцев назад

    Sweet-boy was it ever fun.Thanks Brad.

  • @leonmatthys7709
    @leonmatthys7709 11 месяцев назад

    Drew .. Keep up the great work!!

  • @47LN81
    @47LN81 Год назад

    Best smile ever😊

  • @davidcarlson1208
    @davidcarlson1208 Год назад

    She is great singing with Dan Bern!

  • @benjaminelliott6199
    @benjaminelliott6199 2 года назад

    You guys were so good at the Festival this year in 2022! Thanks so much for playing for us. I danced so hard!

  • @michaelspencer301
    @michaelspencer301 2 года назад

    Loved it.

  • @maryannegoodrich4911
    @maryannegoodrich4911 2 года назад

    Cool beautiful angelic voices!

  • @TKGIOIA
    @TKGIOIA 2 года назад

    As heard and seen on Treehouse TV!

  • @JaffaRoad
    @JaffaRoad 2 года назад

    Great little solo set!!

  • @marisamichelletruzzitriebs6933
    @marisamichelletruzzitriebs6933 2 года назад

    Great band!

  • @melanieweber4522
    @melanieweber4522 2 года назад

    I just love this so much ❤

  • @janinafisher101
    @janinafisher101 2 года назад

    This showed up on my RUclips feed tonight and it was so lovely to re-live the magical summer day when we recorded this in Cindy and Gary's cedar grove by the river! And to hear the Covid Antidote Set again. This may have been my favourite fiddle-playing day ever!

  • @12RMS
    @12RMS 2 года назад

    Lovely as always Rebecca ❧

  • @zimp1447
    @zimp1447 2 года назад

    ez clap in a build battle tho and thats all that matters alpha"WELL DONE"

  • @garyglover5397
    @garyglover5397 2 года назад

    That's not this Gary Glover !

  • @ArtByCholeena
    @ArtByCholeena 2 года назад

    I love being able to watch this, bringing Blue Skies to the household, _any_ time of year! ❤️️

  • @ArtByCholeena
    @ArtByCholeena 2 года назад

    How lovely to be able to "be at" Blue Skies any time of the year! Thank you for putting this on RUclips!

  • @moonoggin
    @moonoggin 2 года назад

    Much better with the girl LoL Great version!

  • @johnmccabe8021
    @johnmccabe8021 2 года назад

    Took a lesson from him in Dunnville Ontario, amazing player and human being

  • @ArtByCholeena
    @ArtByCholeena 2 года назад

    Really enjoyed that. Insightful words and lovely tune. Especially liked the knocking on the mini guitar (sorry, I don't know the name of the instrument). Excellent filming, too.

    • @deb1463
      @deb1463 2 года назад

      They are both ukuleles, but the G string is tuned an octave lower, so it sounds a little different than a standard uke.

  • @thomasmartin2838
    @thomasmartin2838 3 года назад

    Short and sweet. Jonathan Byrd and the Pickup Cowboys are the only band that can pack this much punch into a 15 minute set!

  • @johnnyeaton
    @johnnyeaton 3 года назад

    Aetherial.

  • @janinafisher101
    @janinafisher101 3 года назад

    Nicely put together!

  • @BillDare100
    @BillDare100 3 года назад

    Good to hear you all come together.

    • @BillDare100
      @BillDare100 3 года назад

      Nice filming and editing too

  • @BillDare100
    @BillDare100 3 года назад

    I like the words to your song..."it's when it's not it" ... helpful.

  • @margaretanttila5805
    @margaretanttila5805 3 года назад

    Looking good, Mark ;) Fun jam!

  • @distantwhisp
    @distantwhisp 3 года назад

    thank you to all at Blue Skies for inviting me to take part, magoo for the fabulous folk fashion and to all of you in the real time comment section for your kind and lovely comments - I look fwd to seeing you all in person in a future Blue Skies year!

  • @billsdubious
    @billsdubious 3 года назад

    Great to see and hear ya’s again!

  • @MarkSentesy
    @MarkSentesy 3 года назад

    Gorgeous. What powerful music and message.

  • @Mynameisnumber5
    @Mynameisnumber5 3 года назад

    Thank you all so much for putting this together! :)

  • @christinemoore4036
    @christinemoore4036 3 года назад

    This has been a wonderful Blue Skies, thank you!!!

  • @iamsolar
    @iamsolar 3 года назад

    Saturday Night Virtual Blue Skies Success! 💙

  • @grantloewen8825
    @grantloewen8825 3 года назад

    Smooth and sweet as butter, then tart and edgey as a squeeze of lemon. So enjoyable, Jake. Thanks a milles! Happy Blue Skies. Big hug.

  • @MoniqueClare
    @MoniqueClare 3 года назад

    Thank you Blue Skies for having me virtually at your festival! Hope to see you all in person someday.

  • @rainbowpeace13
    @rainbowpeace13 3 года назад

    Wonderful....great little tune!

  • @johnbond4125
    @johnbond4125 3 года назад

    This is very cool Jake.

  • @HereonearthCa
    @HereonearthCa 3 года назад

    You all sound like a party I'd like to be at! Enjoyed!

  • @MrAlexKemp
    @MrAlexKemp 3 года назад

    Si bon!

  • @marycollins7832
    @marycollins7832 3 года назад

    well that was fun - by the invisible man & guests