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Gavin's Woodpile- The Bruce Cockburn Newsletter Online 2010 MEDIA 2004-2009 media are in the ARCHIVES section
Earth Day Canada Earth Day Canada is pleased to honour Bruce Cockburn with this year’s Outstanding Commitment to the Environment Award. For three decades, Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn has been an outspoken voice on issues relating to the environment. He has performed benefit concerts in support of the Haida Nation and the Stein River Valley and their fights against logging; spoke out against the destruction of tropical rain forests and the Exxon oil spill off the Alaskan coast; narrated a television documentary on the Mali desert; acted as honorary chairperson of Friends of the Earth; and of course wrote the anthemic “If A Tree Falls.” “The whole point of writing songs is to share experiences with people,” says Bruce, looking back on a career that includes 26 albums, numerous international awards, including the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Tenco Award for Lifetime Achievement in Italy, 20 gold and platinum records in Canada, and countless concert performances since he released his first solo work in 1970. Born in Ottawa in 1945, Bruce set his sights on a career in music after growing up listening to Elvis records. He landed at Berklee College of Music in Boston in the early ’60s before moving back to Ottawa in 1965 to play in a series of rock bands. He eventually found his voice as a songwriter and developed a highly personal finger-picking guitar style that merged Mississippi John Hurt blues with modal jazz harmony, melodic lyricism and cycling rhythms. Bruce was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1982 and was promoted to Officer in 2002. The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) inducted him into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame. He has also received numerous honorary doctorates for his contributions to music, culture and social activism. Email from Bernie Finkelstein February 12, 2010
Bruce
is doing a TV show there [in Winnipeg] with one of Quebec's greatest stars,
Michel Rivard. You might remember many years ago Bruce performed with Michel
during a benefit concert in Montreal which also featured Crosby, Stills and
Nash.
The TV show is being taped February 17
during the Festival you're referring to [Festival du Voyageur]. I don't have
much more detail for you other than it's for the French CBC in Quebec and
the French national network in english Canada. I don't have the air date.
Bruce will most likely do three of his songs
with Michel (expected to be Pacing The Cage, Lovers In A Dangerous Time and
Homme Brulant) and then do three French songs of Michel's. All six songs
will be done with Michel in some form or another. This will all be worked
out in rehearsal in Winnipeg.
When I have the air date I'll get it posted
to you.
-Bernie Posted: February 3, 2010 From Bruce's management...
MP3s for a Cause: Paste Mag Launches ‘Songs
for Haiti’ Bruce has donated "Waiting for a Miracle" from Anything Anytime Anywhere. Go here.) When you have the ears and the
hearts of some of the leading musicians in the world, that is what you use to
get people to give. Paste magazine today launched its creative response
to the tragedy in Haiti with a “Songs for Haiti” Web site that offers access to
MP3 tracks to those who donate. Tracks come from artists like Ludacris, Of
Montreal, Andrew Bird, Hanson and Bruce Cockburn among 200 artists who
contributed their work to the effort. Visitors can donate to the charities with
whom Paste is partnered - Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross and Yele Haiti
Earthquake Fund - or they can declare where else they have donated in order to
access the Paste vault of 250 songs. It is on the honor system, the company
says. As of this morning, the site reported over $45,000 in donations.
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