We’ve had so many wonderful
and talented musicians on our show over the nearly two years we’ve been on the
air. Speaking of which, the second anniversary of our morning show is just weeks away!
As we headed into the holiday
season, I contacted quite a few of the musicians who’ve visited us over the last several months to ask whether
they’d be willing to come on Global Montreal Morning News to perform Christmas
tunes.
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| Beija-Flor |
Dynamite Montreal rock band “The
Damn Truth” came on our show and did a spellbinding version of “Amazing Grace”.
Ethno-classical duo Beija Flor, who you see in this picture, with Charles on guitar
and the season-appropriately named Marie-Noelle on flute, performed themes from
the holiday favorite, “The Nutcracker”.
The Carolyn Fe Blues Collective,
who got all dolled up for their early morning performance, did a groovin’
holiday tune and 18 year old tenor Marco Bocchiccio sang “Santa Claus is Coming
To Town”. Ensemble Ko performed wonderful traditional Christmas carols and the
Lyric Theatre Singers were typically terrific!
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| Carolyn Fe Blues Collective |
December Rose, who performed
for our entire 2013 Christmas Eve show, came in to sing a smooth and oh so
cleverly choreographed version of “Santa Baby” on December 24th!
One of our crew favourites is the women who form the a cappella group Montreal City Voices, who came on during the holidays for a performance laced with their usual zeal and panache!
One of our crew favourites is the women who form the a cappella group Montreal City Voices, who came on during the holidays for a performance laced with their usual zeal and panache!
It’s such great fun to have
musical artists on our show! I believe it adds so much to our content quality
and originality, plus it gives our television station a chance to support local
art, culture and community.
We had a special appearance
by M.T.L. (Made Them Lions), a bunch of local guys who’ve been getting considerable
commercial success with their first album. Their first hit “Crazy” did well and
on our Christmas Eve show, they announced plans for their first nationwide release
with the song, “Forgotten How To Dream”. It's out now as (look at me - so in the loop) the guys do some songwriting and skiing in Vermont right now.
We pre-taped their segment
after our December 23rd show to air it the next day on our Christmas
Eve show.
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| M.T.L. |
The guys ran through “All I Want
For Christmas” once and we asked them to do it again as we tweaked the
sound. They ran through it twice and then three times as we tweaked some more! Finally, we did the interview and the song for real, only right after the interview,
I dashed into the control room to listen to them sing and blurted out a comment while my microphone was
still “hot”, meaning we could hear me talk in the middle of their song! Nice
going Rich! They gladly did the song a fifth time while I was properly muzzled
and then we edited the interview together with the final song version and aired
it Christmas Eve.
Through it all, the guys were
smiling, patient and grateful to be on the show. How awesome is that! How awesome are they? How awesome are all our musical guests? I thank all of them and many not named here for their generosity, patience, professionalism and for sharing their talent with us and our viewers.
I’m already stoked for the 2015
holiday season; I'm keeping my fingers crossed they are too!
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