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Posted by Tree Songs 
· January 19, 2022 

Tree Songs 3 Press Release

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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Categories : Blog
Posted by Jake Morrison 
· January 19, 2022 

Tree Songs 3 Posters

Categories : Blog
Posted by Jake Morrison 
· November 22, 2021 

Tree Songs 2 – It’s a Wrap! Archive Links

‘Tree Songs 2’, Sun. Nov. 21, 2021, archive links

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Session A: Lunenburg Concert

Catriona Sturton

Streaming links: www.facebook.com/catrionasturton/
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Session B: Adrian Baker’s Tree Art

Chad Kirvan

Streaming link: Available later

Checkout the other great streams!

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Session C: The Medicine Tree

Coordinator: Doreen Stevens

Streaming link: www.facebook.com/CanadianSpaces/
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Session D: Ottawa Songwriters concert

Coordinator: Christophe Elie

Streaming link: www.facebook.com/TreeSongs/
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Session E: Peterborough Concert

Coordinator: Rick Fines

Streaming link: www.facebook.com/TreeSongs/
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Session F: Toronto Concert #1

Coordinator: Janis Daly

Streaming link: Don Heights Unitarian Congregation
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Session G: Toronto Concert #2 ( Postponed to ‘Tree Songs 3’ on Jan. 22/23, 2022)

Coordinator: Shelley Hamilton

Streaming link: NA
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Session H: Just Voices

Coordinators: Patricia Reynolds and Carmel Whittle

Streaming link: www.facebook.com/JustVoices/
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3:00 pm Eastern

Session I: Reimagine Ottawa’s ‘Action Sundays’

Coordinator: Sian Griffiths

Streaming link: www.facebook.com/Reimagine Ottawa/
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Session J:  National Wrap-Up Concert (please see separate description)

Coordinators:  Christophe Elie, Reid Smith and Chris White

Streaming link: www.facebook.com/TreeSongs/

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Categories : Blog, Concert
Posted by Tree Songs 
· November 11, 2021 

Tree Songs 2 Announcement


SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Twenty-Six Free Concerts And Events Across Canada On The Same Day
To Celebrate Trees Through Songs, Poems, Visual Art, Walks and Talks

** 25 regional concerts and events **
11:00 am Pacific / 2:00 pm Eastern / 3:30 pm Newfoundland

** National wrap-up concert **
1:00 pm Pacific / 4:00 pm Eastern / 5:30 pm Newfoundland

FREE ADMISSION

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‘Tree Songs 2’ is a national creation and performance project that will present twenty-six free live concerts and events across Canada in honour of trees on Sunday, November 21.

The 25 regional concerts and events will start at 2:00 pm Eastern.  The concerts are being organized by tree-loving individuals and groups across the country, and will feature songwriters, poets and visual artists who have creates new work for the occasion to encourage people to celebrate and protect trees.  Events will include woodland tours led by certified forest guides (‘tree walks’) and moderated community conversations about trees (‘tree talks’).

A national wrap-up concert starting at 4:00 pm Eastern will feature concert reports and live performances from the 25 regional concerts, along with some special surprise guests.

All ‘Tree Songs 2’ concerts and events are free and will be streamed live to Facebook starting at 2:00 pm Eastern on November 21.  Some concerts and events will offer an option to attend in person as an alternative to attending online.

Information and links for all concerts will be posted on the Tree Songs website at www.treesongs.ca starting on November 15.

All concerts will be archived after November 21st on the

Tree Songs Facebook page at www.facebook.com/groups/treesongs

The organizers and artists associated with this project acknowledge their responsibility to respect the traditional Indigenous territory on which we live and to safeguard the rights of those who have been the stewards of this territory since time immemorial.

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

Categories : Archive, Blog
Posted by Tree Songs 
· November 11, 2021 

Tree Songs 1 – Concerts

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!

Greg Kelly does an encore under the American Sycamore!

Categories : Blog
Posted by Tree Songs 
· November 11, 2021 

Tree Songs 2 Poster

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