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A live concert and podcast series that brings Canadian history alive - and local Niagara history - with songs and words. These podcasts share Canadian history nuggets with the world.
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Extempo Songbook is a music creation podcast/project, featuring extemporaneous song recordings and exploratory, tangential monologues about various topics. ///////////////////////// Nigel from Nap Eyes shares first-draft compositions of new songs. He also talks for a while about some things he’s enthusiastic about (including songwriting and beyond), with an introspective and interoceptive focus. /////////////////////////////////////////// ////////////////////////////////////////// #CreativeA ...
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[RT] "Idea Of Spiritual Reality Seen As A Broken Pigeon Wing"
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This is the first RT (Revised Take) episode for the ETSB podcast. ///// [RT] = marks a "Revised Take", a song that's been developed beyond its initial OT form. /// This podcast is offered freely, and is not monetized. If you’d like to support it with a donation, you can send one via Paypal to extemposongbook@gmail.com. /// Thank you for listening!…
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[OT] "Did You Reify The Condition Of Feeling Negative Strange?"
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This is the second OT (Original Take) episode for the ETSB podcast. ///// (OT) = marks an "Original Take", or spontaneously composed song. === This podcast is offered freely, and is not monetized. If you’d like to support it with a donation, you can send one via Paypal to extemposongbook@gmail.com. ///// Thank you for listening!…
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[OT] "Future Deliberator Speculation Machine"
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This is the first OT (Original Take) episode for the ETSB podcast. ///// (OT) = marks an "Original Take", or spontaneously composed song. === This podcast is offered freely, and is not monetized. If you’d like to support it with a donation, you can send one via Paypal to extemposongbook@gmail.com. ///// Thank you for listening!…
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This episode is a brief introduction to the ETSB podcast, describing its origin and reason for being. /// (ST) = marks a spoken episode ========== This podcast is offered freely, and is not monetized. If you’d like to support it with a donation, you can send one via Paypal to extemposongbook@gmail.com. /// Thank you for listening!…
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The Niagara River flows between two of the Great Lakes – Lake Erie and Lake Ontario - and includes one of the seven wonders of the world, Niagara Falls. Niagara River, a natural border between Canada and USA, has been witness to thousands of years of history, from its native ancestral routes, to the role it played in the Underground Railroad. Sailo…
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On July 11th, 1874, seven young men sailed out of Toronto’s Royal Canadian Yacht Club on one of their father’s yachts, a 30 foot centerboard sloop called The Foam. They were sailing to Niagara-on-the-Lake for the Saturday Night Hop at the popular Queens Royal Hotel. It was a fine night for sailing, and their young ladies were waiting. -------------…
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William Red Hill Sr., lived in Niagara Falls and was always drawn to the river and its treacherous rapids. He dedicated his life to saving those who felt the pull of those waters, and received the life-long title of ‘The Hero Of Niagara’. -------------------- Credits: The Great Canadian Historical Songbook Created and Written by Barbara Worthy Prod…
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The Indian Act reduced entire indigenous nations to servitude and loss of language, culture, and self-respect. Residential schools continued the shame. This song highlights the need for hope and a renewed cultural voice. -------------------- Credits: The Great Canadian Historical Songbook Created and Written by Barbara Worthy Producers: Barbara Wor…
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She owned her name, but nothing else. As a slave in 1793 she was someone’s property. But her story – and her name – became the impetus for John Graves Simcoe’s historic Act Against Slavery. -------------------- Credits: The Great Canadian Historical Songbook Created and Written by Barbara Worthy Producers: Barbara Worthy, Aaron Berger and Joe Lapin…
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Nikola Tesla, engineer, inventor and futurist, changed our world with his breakthrough discoveries of electrical production, transmission, and generation. Yet he died in poverty, in a world forever indebted to him and his brilliance. -------------------- Credits: The Great Canadian Historical Songbook Created and Written by Barbara Worthy Producers…
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A truly brilliant man who helped create the railway network in Ontario that brought Canada steaming into the industrial age, but who died on his own railway tracks, due to poor construction as a result of political favours and handouts. -------------------- Credits: The Great Canadian Historical Songbook Created and Written by Barbara Worthy Produc…
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The unbelievable but true story of how Lady Agnes MacDonald, the wife of Canada’s first Prime Minister John A. Macdonald, christened his CP railroad in 1886, by riding in the cowcatcher in front of the engine, from Banff to Vancouver, with her umbrella! -------------------- Credits: The Great Canadian Historical Songbook Created and Written by Barb…
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