TREE SONGS 3

Celebrating and protecting trees!

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, JANUARY 22 AND 23, 2022

National Warm-Up Concert

Saturday, January 22

2:00 pm Eastern

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** Regional Concerts **

Sunday, January 23

2:00 pm Eastern

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** National Wrap-Up Concert **

Sunday, January 23

4:00 pm Eastern

ALL CONCERTS ARE FREE AND WILL BE STREAMED THROUGH LINKS ON
THE ‘TREE SONGS’ WEBSITE AT WWW.TREESONGS.CA

Tree Songs 3 is a free national event that will take place on Saturday and Sunday, January 22 and 23 starting at 2:00 pm Eastern.  On those dates, people across the country will express their feelings about *trees* through music, poetry, visual art, sculpture, dance, theatre, storytelling, culinary arts, healing arts, fashion design, quilting, tree talks, tree walks and more.

A Warm-Up Concert at 2:00 pm Eastern on Saturday, January 22 will feature performances from tree enthusiasts across Canada.

Regional Concerts organized by people across the country will take place on Sunday, January 23 starting at 2:00 pm.

A National Wrap-Up Concert starting at 4:00 pm Eastern will feature performances and reports from all of the regional concerts, along with some special surprise guests!

“These events are fuelled by people’s enormous love and respect for trees, and by a growing awareness that literally all life on the planet depends on them,” says Christophe Elie, one of the project’s organizers.  “Get ready for some beautiful and moving experiences at Tree Songs 3!”

In addition to links to all of the concerts, the Tree Songs website at www.treesongs.ca contains links to a number of tree protection campaigns across the country.  For example, Reimagine Ottawa at www.reimagineottawa.ca is challenging the arbitrary and disastrous plan to destroy 750 canopy trees, 53 acres of national park land, and countless wildlife creatures and habitats in the heart of Ottawa at Queen Juliana Park and the Central Experimental Farm, a national historic site.

Media contact:  Chris White – chris@folkzone.ca, 613-327-9621

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Tree Songs organizers and participants affirm the rights of the Algonquin Anishnabeg nation whose people have been stewards of this unsurrendered traditional territory since time immemorial.

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On October 17th, 2021, ‘Tree Songs’ project produced 20 excellent new songs about trees that were performed in two concerts:
an in-person concert hosted by Christophe Elie and Greg Kelly at the Central Experimental Farm, and an online concert hosted by Chris White on Zoom.

Tree Songs 1:  ONLINE Concert on Zoom and Facebook
Concert video. 

1.  Bob Gernon (Toronto)
2.  Kyla Tilley (St. John’s)
3.  Don Wismer
4.  Michaela Deng (Toronto)
5.  Sheila White (Toronto)
6.  Romani Bays
7.  Tony Turner (Nanaimo)
8.  Lorne Weiner
9.  Pat Mayberry
10.  Chris White
11.  Patricia Reynolds, Carmel Whittle, Barbara Dumont-Hill, Jen Gilbert and Laura Margita

Time codes:

11:45  Bob Gernon – ‘I Have A Tree’
22:30  Kyla Tilley   (Clark’s Beach, Newfoundland)   ‘No Wrong Tree’
28:35  Don Wismer – ‘100 Wooden Rings’
39:15   Michaela Deng (Toronto) –
47:30   Sheila White (Toronto) –
1:07:15   Pat Mayberry – ‘Change Change’
1:16:30   Tony Turner (Nanaimo) – ‘Survivor Tree’
1:20:45   Jason Sonier and Greg Kelly – A report from the in-person concert at the Central Experimental Farm
1:33:30   Patricia Reynolds and Carmel Whittle –  ‘The Trees Know Their Own Names’
1:41:50   Chris White – ‘Let’s Save The Trees’
1:47:35   Romani Bays –  ‘Give Back The Trees’

Tree Songs 1:  IN-PERSON Concert at the Central Experimental Farm
Concert video.

Christophe Elie
Darren LaBrash
Dawn Pritchard
Susanna Wiens
Tim Kitz
The Raging Grannies
Greg Kelly
Heather Adeney
Jason Dunkerley
Kathryn Adeney

Greg Kelly does an encore under the American Sycamore!