Hey Ho!
Yellowjacket is up for a Juno! Check it out, April 1st in Saskatoon. Send good thoughts!
Also, check out the gig page for my tour with B&RK in March (we're going to Europe) and my solo tour to the UK in the spring. I'm even playing a few gigs in April with my pals
Andy White, and Colleen Hodgson on bass.
I've been working with Andy White, a great songwriter and friend from Belfast, for the past 5+ years. We first met at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, where I initiated Andy into the ancient Canadian-musician traditions of T. Hortons. Since that first encounter and whenever Andy comes over from Australia (his current home) we work together writing and performing . In the past, the "Tall Friends" have worked together as a quintet, quartet and now as a trio with Colleen Hodgson on bass and harmony vocals, Andy on lead vocals, acoustic + electric 12 string and Hammertone and yours truly on electric guitars and harmony vocals. Together we have written several songs for Blackie and The Rodeo Kings and are currently working towards recording all our original material.
Also looking forward to the release of the Blackie and the Rodeo Kings album,
Let's Frolic Again, due in May 2007.
As always, I would like to point out the Community Pages are always open, click on the slide show above left to hit the photo galleries, leave me a message on the bulletin board, and here's hoping you can make it to one of the many shows.
See ya!
Stephen
Stephen has joined Artists for World Vision. You can make a difference in this world by sponsoring a child in need. When you go to one of Stephen's shows (or a Blackie and the Rodeo Kings show, or a Colin Linden show), look for the display by the CD's. If you sign on at the show, you receive one of Stephen's CD's as a thank you. Alternately, you can sign up at the World Vision website.
World Vision child sponsorship is a proven long-term solution to the kind of poverty that cripples families and steals hope from children. Your monthly pledge is combined with more than 325,000 other Canadian child sponsors. Pooling financial resources enables World Vision to maximize the productivity of every dollar.
Working together with local staff and community leaders helps create healthy environments and hopeful futures for children and their families with things like education, skills training, nutritious food, agricultural assistance, safe water, and health care.
The long-term goal of each child sponsorship project is to empower a community to become self-sufficient. Once that happens, usually in the span of 10 to 15 years, the project closes.
Of the funds given to World Vision in 2005, 84.3 per cent went directly into programs that help children, 10.6 per cent went to fundraising services, 5 per cent was allocated to administration, and 0.1 per cent was retained for future use. Audits are conducted regularly by external firms to verify the accuracy of World Vision's financial reporting.
