Music, videos

A couple of my favourite musicians have had videos posted to YouTube in the last week or so, and they’re coming to London in the next several weeks, so it seems like a good time to do some promotion.

The first is a solo artist who I met at this year’s OCFF conference, Catherine MacLellan. She just released a cool video for her song Too Easy, a song from her newest CD Wedding Bell Blues. I’ve watched the video closely several times and I think they might actually have done the whole thing practically; I’m not sure they’d have included the last 30 seconds if it wasn’t. Catherine is going to be performing here in town very soon, so maybe I’ll ask her then.

The second—through fifth!—of the artists are the Girls With Glasses, a quartet of southwestern Ontario-based singer-songwriters who have been performing together for four years. Their debut together on YouTube is a series of videos (starting here) from their recent performance at Aeolian Hall. Some of the video and sound quality leaves a bit to be desired, but the songs and performances more than stand up. Worth particular mention are two of Evalyn Parry‘s songs, The Stone and the Bumblebee, performed completely off-mic to take advantage of the hall’s amazing acoustics, and her spoken word piece Bottle This!, which forms the core of her campaign against bottled water. Evalyn’s going to be at the Music Club soon too… good thing I live so close!

(The original title of this post was Video shilled the radio star, but it’s been done… and shill has negative-enough connotations that it’s not worth the wordplay.)