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Acoustic Harvest is pleased to present ROSALEE PEPPARD (NS)
³Peppard¹s music is steeped in the sea.
She is bringing the rich Maritime past to LIFE in song.²
Toronto Star
One-Of-A-Kind: Rosalee Peppard is the only maritime Canadian musical oral
historian whose focus is transcribing Women's stories into song.
Nova Scotian, Rosalee Peppard and her effervescent art are truly unique: A
maritime musical oral Herstorian, Rosalee collects and transcribes an
authentic living echo of the voices of maritime-Canadian women she
interviews and researches. She crafts their stories into song, and shares
them powerfully in her ³Hauntingly beautiful live performance².
Through a variety of musical voices - from Folk to Blues to Opera - themes
of Love, Literacy, Triumph over loss and shame, Heritage and humour, all
soar on Rosalee¹s shimmering voice, self-accompanied on guitars and mountain
dulcimer. Rosalee connects listeners with a poignant, Living past and
reminds us of its "presents". She colours each show with traditional and
popular songs which are generously "peppered" with wit!
She learned music singing & dancing with her mother while her grandfather
MacPhee fiddled in the kitchen in Truro, NS. Mentored by her Father and
later Grade 6 teacher, she lisped her first poem when she was 3 years old.
She continued with her Bachelor of Music and English from Mount Allison
University and graduate studies at Banff School of Fine Arts, at University
of Toronto with Canada's First Soprano, Lois Marshall and with Bill
Vincent's Voices & Company.
Rosalee has won awards for singing, best musical theatre actress, and
songwriter. She regularly appears on radio and TV.
For the past 12 years, Rosalee has independently championed the Women's
perspective of East Coast Canadian Oral History. She has extensively
interviewed elder maritime women and has transcribed their rich stories into
song. She has been honoured by receiving 2 Dr Helen Creighton Folklore
Research Awards and a Colchester Heritage Award for her work published on
"No Place Like Home" (2001), "Legacy" (2004), and has just released her new
CD: "Voices" (2011).
Rosalee loves to share the secret of these voices and has great joy in
teaching the history, literary and music composition, in her concerts, or
her speaking/singing presentations, as well as vocal and writing workshops.
Please join us on Oct. 22nd, for this special celebration of Rosalee's
music.
Lillian Aida Wauthier
LAW Promotions, Toronto
Artistic Director - Acoustic Harvest - www.acousticharvest.ca
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WHEN: Sat. Oct. 22/11, 8pm, (doors 7:30pm)
WHERE: St. Nicholas Anglican Church
1512 Kingston Rd.
(NE corner of Kingston Rd. and Manderley Drive- 1 block east of Warden Ave.
in east end Toronto)
ADMISSION: $20/$18 Seniors/Students
INFO: 416-264-2235
Wheelchair Accessibility
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