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Sing-along Café 2025-05-01

It’s May!!!? This year is flying by. 

We had another lovely night singing songs by Canadian artists. We think we can probably sing only songs by Canadians for a year and never run out of songs that surprise us. And this is just songs that we can sing along to. There are Canadian opera singers, and jazz artists, and French singers, for example, whose music we wouldn’t be able to sing along with. There are big names in Canadian music, composers and performers of instrumental music, like Oscar Peterson or Moe Koffmann, Liona Boyd, Maynard Ferguson, Frank Mills whose music we're familiar with (I think I added these for Ian’s family). It’s wonderful that we Canadians have so much music in common. So many household names and common melodies that our ours. 

I just realized I had forgotten Shawn Mendes! I’m sure I’ll be adding to that list forever. Ah!Amanda Marshall. So much more to sing. 

Next week, please don't forget that we're not meeting on May 8th. I'm going to have a little vacation. The following week, May 15th, maybe we can have a Mother's Day theme?  We could use an Apple playlist. There's one called "Who Runs the World...MOMS". We can try that, and I have a Plan B: Beatles Love Songs. 

Here’s a sample of the songs we sang and listened to:

  • The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot
  • Early Morning Rain by Ian and Sylvia
  • When I'm Up by Great Big Sea
  • Diana by Paul Anka
  • Everything I Do (I Do It For You) by Bryan Adams
  • Spinning Wheel by Blood, Sweat & Tears
  • Wondering Where the Lions Are and Lovers in a Dangerous Time by Bruce Cockburn
  • I’m Scared by Burton Cummings
  • Little Darlin' and Sillouettes On the Shade by the Diamonds
  • 1234 by Feist
  • We all Need Love by Domenic Troiano
  • Day by Day by Doug and the Slugs
  • Istanbul and Together Wherever We Go by The Four Lads
  • Signed, Sealed, Delivered by Garou 




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