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Oddities – A Community Choir:
We meet every Saturday Morning from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Primary Room at St.Pauls United Church in Perth Ontario Each Saturday morning you are invited to join us for Chant from 9 to 9:20 a.m. in the small chapel next to the Primary room For more information please contact Nicola Oddy Nicola_Oddy@ripnet.com ***************************************** Choral Directors: Nicola Oddy & Jack Hurd
As usual, we are meeting
from 9:30 - 11:30 in the primary room at St.Pauls
In song!
Nicola
Please
contact Nicola Oddy nicola_oddy@ripnet.com
or 613-264-0242 for more information
‘Oddities’ hosts Tom Lips at their year end concert
Oddities
is proud to present Tom Lips on Sunday, May 4th at 7pm, in
the Sanctuary of St.Paul’s United Church.
The choir will perform alone and with Tom, who will
then sing a set of his own.
Tickets
are $12.00 or $30 for a family and may be purchased at
Shadowfax, from choir members or by calling 613-264-0242 If
you haven’t heard Tom's songs you’re in for a treat.
You’ll cry and you’ll laugh!
He’s a gifted singer and songwriter as well as a
creative and dynamic teller of traditional and original
stories and a poet whose work has appeared in The
Fiddlehead and Descant. He has written hundreds
of songs in an eclectic mix of styles, rooted primarily in
the folk genre. Performance credits as a singer-songwriter
include opening for Hart Rouge and Christine Lavin, special
guest performer for Kingston's Open Voices Choir,
appearances at the National Arts Centre Fourth Stage, the
Blue Skies Festival (as guest of the Blue Skies Choir), the
Alnwick International Folk Music and Dance Festival (U.K.),
the Folk Upstairs Acoustic Series (Perth), The Ottawa Folk
Festival, The Strawberry Moon Festival, The Great Canadian
Theatre Company, Rasputin's,
and numerous contributions to theatrical productions. Tom
has been featured on CBC Radio's national comedy program,
"Madly Off in All Directions."
He has two recordings which have been well received.
You’ll be sure to want to take one or both home
with you that evening. "There's
a terrific new album by Canadian singer/songwriter Tom Lips
called Made of Sky. Tom possesses a deep, beautiful voice
(think James Keelaghan crossed with Lyle Lovett) and is a
masterful singing storyteller. The production is first-rate,
the ballads are soulful and the funny stuff, is, well what
can you say about lyrics like "if you've got a yen for
tall and scrawny men/all I have to ask of you is, honey,
where've you been?/I'm a skinny white male out here looking
for love." I recommend this album highly and already
know it will be on my top ten list for the year 1999."
Oddities, led by Nicola Oddy and Jack Hurd will perform during the opening set where you’ll hear an eclectic selection of folk, spirituals, and jazz accompanied by our own ‘Oddities’ band led by Ed Ashton.
******************************* Oddities’– a history
The journey
continues! Brother can you spare a dime: Elibama: Seasons of Love: Dawn: Over The Rainbow: ‘Oddities’,
which is now co-led by Nicola Oddy and Jack Hurd, began as a
church folk choir at St. Pauls United Church in Perth in 1993,
and has since expanded to become a community group with nearly
50 members. The name is derived from the name of the
leader, Nicola Oddy, but also reflects their selection of
music, and their musical arrangements.
The arrangements originated by listening and learning
to create their own harmonies, and, although they continue
creating harmonies for some of their repertoire, they now
primarily work with the written score. Their selection of
music is an eclectic mix of gospel, folk, spiritual, pop
and traditional. In
this concert you will hear arrangements by Jack Hurd, and a
composition by Peter Morgan, one of our choir members.
You will hear pieces such as ‘Holly Holy’ by Neal
Diamond, ‘Scarborough Fair’ by Simon and Garfunkle, ‘Out
of the Mira’ – a cape Breton folk song, and ‘This Little
Light of Mine’ – a fun arrangement of an old gospel tune. The
group is very fortunate to be joined by their long standing
band with Ed Ashton, Simon Bennell, Richard York and Joel
LeBlanc on Guitar. Jack Hurd and Maureen Young fill on keyboard and piano.
In Song,
Nicola
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