| New CD Release...
Melanie Ross & Friends |
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A brand new album from Melanie Ross was
launched on Saturday, December 2nd, at 2:00 PM, at Saltwater
Sounds. This new release is the 2nd of a 3-album set promoting
and preserving songs and folktales of the Miramichi and Northern
New Brunswick.
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| Gillis–Mackenzie Excitement |
| Old world clan feuds, and romances,
and the day to day hustle and bustle have been put aside by two
well known musical families from the Miramichi. A new CD with their
first ever professional recording was released on Saturday December
the 2nd, at Saltwater Sounds. |
The Gillis Family:
Lynn Manderson, Barb and Gillian
Matchett have been performing in northern New Brunswick doing
community and charitable performances. Now with the help and
encouragement of Melanie Ross they have two numbers on the new
“From Our River “ CD. The first, the traditional
"Sarah", brought to the area two centuries ago by
the first fishermen via Newfoundland; the second the Keith Wilson,
"Song for Burnt Church".The first features a beautiful
use of acapella, and the second a wonderful melody and catchy
chorus, sure to be a toe taper for one and all.
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Eric & Mike MacKenzie
The father and son team of Eric and Mike
MacKenzie seem to be everywhere lately, helping out various
community organizations up and down the river with their home
country folk sound. Eric is only 16 and has written his own
song, "Closest Place to Heaven" which will do any
Miramichier proud. Mike has written, "What is the Miramichi?"
With very special words and melody in the chorus, which sum
up the values of our people. It will stick in your soul long
after the song is finished and you will find yourself humming
along.
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The Collaboration
The Gillis Family and the MacKenzies join
with the smooth sounds of Connie and Paul, in "Mattie’s Cove",
the booming baritone of Frankie McKibbon in " Miramichi Men", on
Melanie Ross’s new CD –Melanie Ross and Friends: From
Our River.
A free open kitchen
party took place on Saturday Dec. 2nd at 2pm at Saltwater Sounds
on Water Street to release the 14 track CD. A project of BooWoo
Productions and Promotions, this album was recorded in 3 separate
studios and mixed and mastered in the ECMA award winning Denmark
Productions in Halifax. |
For further information contact:
Greg King, Executive Producer, BooWooProductions, 902-860-0530 |
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