{"id":805,"date":"2008-02-22T01:31:06-05:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T06:31:06+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2008\/02\/22\/music-videos\/"},"modified":"2008-04-14T22:02:37-04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T02:02:37+00:00","slug":"music-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2008\/02\/22\/music-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Music,&nbsp;videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>A couple of my favourite musicians have had videos posted to YouTube in the last week or so, and they&#8217;re coming to London in the next several weeks, so it seems like a good time to do some promotion.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.contacteast.ca\/images\/artist_photos\/artist27-lg.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" \/>The first is a solo artist who I met at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocff.ca\/\"><abbr title=\"Ontario Council of Folk Festivals\">OCFF<\/abbr><\/a> conference, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catherinemaclellan.com\/\">Catherine MacLellan<\/a>.  She just released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c5VqmYRCaF4\">cool video for her song <cite class=\"title\">Too Easy<\/cite><\/a>, a song from her newest CD <cite class=\"title\">Wedding Bell Blues<\/cite>.  I&#8217;ve watched the video closely several times and I think they might actually have done the whole thing practically; I&#8217;m not sure they&#8217;d have included the last 30 seconds if it wasn&#8217;t.  Catherine is going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/upcoming.yahoo.com\/event\/433190\/\">performing here in town<\/a> very soon, so maybe I&#8217;ll ask her then.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The second&#8212;through fifth!&#8212;of the artists are the <cite class=\"name\">Girls With Glasses<\/cite>, 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 (<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=iswsds317qU\">starting here<\/a>) from their <a href=\"http:\/\/upcoming.yahoo.com\/event\/399700\/\">recent performance at Aeolian Hall<\/a>.  Some of the video and sound quality leaves a bit to be desired, but the songs and performances more than stand up.  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borealisrecords.com\/images\/parry_ev1.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" \/>Worth particular mention are two of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evalynparry.com\/\">Evalyn Parry<\/a>&#8216;s songs, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=WkMCYo661q8\"><cite class=\"title\">The Stone and the Bumblebee<\/cite><\/a>, performed completely off-mic to take advantage of the hall&#8217;s amazing acoustics, and her spoken word piece <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=1Xcd-ZuwLI0\"><cite class=\"title\">Bottle This!<\/cite><\/a>, which forms the core of her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evalynparry.com\/2007\/10\/29\/bottle-this\/\">campaign against bottled water<\/a>.  Evalyn&#8217;s going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/upcoming.yahoo.com\/event\/438166\/\">at the Music Club soon<\/a> too&#8230; good thing I live so close!<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>(The original title of this post was <cite class=\"title\">Video shilled the radio star<\/cite>, but it&#8217;s been done&#8230; and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shill\">shill<\/a> has negative-enough connotations that it&#8217;s not worth the wordplay.)<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple of my favourite musicians have had videos posted to YouTube in the last week or so, and they&#8217;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&#8217;s OCFF conference, Catherine MacLellan.&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}