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Haligonia CD Cover

Image by Avard Woolaver
This is my first album. It was released on July 23, 2010 on CD Baby--digital download only.

You can hear some of the songs on Reverbnation, as well as my new song "I Need Coffee."

www.reverbnation.com/avardwoolaver

itunes.apple.com/ca/album/haligonia/id384032959

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003X779I8/ref=dm_sp_alb

Haligonia has received airplay on CBC's Weekend Mornings, and CBC's Mainstreet.

The image used to represent the album is a peace sign. I was with my kids on the playground at the Halifax Commons and the sunlight on one of the play structures cast this shadow on the ground. I took a couple of photos, but within a minute or so the sun had changed position and the peace sign was altered. Coincidentally, I wrote the song on the same day--so it's kind of like a sign if you believe in that kind of thing.

Here is the precise time the photo was taken:

Halifax Commons playground, July 4, 2010 1:15pm (AST)--hey, it's just like stonehenge...

I have illustrations for the other songs in a flickr set titled Haligonia CD:
www.flickr.com/photos/avardwoolaver/sets/72157624917200749/

Haligonia lyrics:

There's a place we love the most
Nestled on that old east coast
It's got such charm and pandemonia
They should have named it Haligonia

I filled the sack in Sackville
Played darts in Dartmouth
Raised hell in Halifax
Went to bed in Bedford

I went all around the circle, did the loop
Saw some friends, spread some cheer, had a hoot

[chorus:]
Haligonia
Pandemonia
Euphoria
Oh yeah, Oh yeah
Haligonia
I'll telephone ya
I can never own ya
Oh yeah, Oh yeah
Oh, Halifax

I felt spry in Spryfield
Played fair in Fairview
Got burned in Burnside
Felt like hell and back

I went all around the circle, did the loop
Saw some friends, spread some cheer, had a hoot

I filled the sack in Sackville
Played darts in Dartmouth
Raised hell in Halifax
Feels like hell and back
Oh, Halifax

[chorus]

Hali-go-nia
Hali-go-nia



© 2010 Avard Woolaver. All Rights Reserved.

152/365: I am... Peter Gabriel

Image by DavidDMuir
"Intruder's happy in the dark
Intruder come
Intruder come and he leave his mark
leave his mark
I am the intruder."
-- Intruder by Peter Gabriel

I was led by ~ JP ~'s picture - Yeah Baby - to the the i am... a record cover pool. What a brilliant idea!

Here's my first efforts with Peter Gabriel. It took quite a few goes to get it right. I have another photo, taken without flash, where I line up better but this picture is much clearer. I will definitely have another go at this with some other covers from my record collection. :-)

"Concentrate on the song, concentrate on the song..."

Image by Rich007
Sir Paul McCartney almost gets distracted from playing I Saw Her Standing There by a 40-year younger version of himself in the gatefold of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP held up by a fan during his BBC Electric Proms performance at the Roundhouse, Camden, London, England. It was in 1967 - shortly after the eponymous Sgt Pepper was released - that Paul was last at the Roundhouse, during the Million Volt Light and Sound Rave at which the Beatles legendary 13-minute lost track, Carnival of Light, was played for the only time in public.

And the song he was singing was first recorded 45 years ago...

For more photos, audio and video of this special gig, see
www.bbc.co.uk/electricproms/2007/artists/paulmccartney/

What happened on stage minute by minute, as seen by the BBC's Jane Long.

19.59 - At 7pm the queue stretched halfway to Belsize Park. Five minutes to go and already the packed crowd are going wild.
20.05 - And straight into Magical Mystery Tour. This is one man who doesn't need to worry about wasting his hits early in the set!
20.07 - Paul's looking damn sharp in a skinny mod suit.
20.09 - It's "a long time" since he's been in the Roundhouse...
20.12 - He's got his mandolin out. Must be time for Dance Tonight.
20.15 - The jacket comes off. Some ladies down the front seem a bit over excited!
20.16 - Only Mama Knows is complemented by a string octet.
20.18 - First Wings song of the night and it's the early b-side C Moon.
20.24 - Sticking at the piano for The Long And Winding Road. It's the first big singalong of the night.
20.29 - There are a lot of glowsticks in the audience tonight. Anyone would think we were at a Klaxons gig.
20.36 - Macca pays tribute to John with Here Today and gets the biggest cheer of the night so far.
20.42 - The strings return for Calico Skies.
20.43 - Paul asks for an audience wave, and he gets one.
20.48 - Eleanor Rigby now and Paul's drummer is up and dad-dancing at the back.
20.51 - The Wings songs are going down as well as The Beatles ones. Band On The Run now and two headbangers down the front are loving it.
20.55 - Signs in the crowd show people have travelled from as far afield as Canada and Japan for this gig.
21.04 - Macca's band take over Lennon's vocals on I Got A Feeling.
21.06 - Macca's spotted an X-Factor contestant in the audience...
21.08 - The James Bond 007 movie theme Live and Let Die comes complete with pyrotechnics.
21.09 - Paul's thumping those keys Jerry Lee Lewis style.
21.11 - An impromptu baby face turns into the ultimate singalong, Hey Jude.
21.15 - "Na na na, na na na na, na na na na Hey Juuuuuude!"
21.21 - He's off but not for long...Back to the piano for Let It Be.
21.22 - The smoking ban hasn't stopped an age-old tradition. Lighters in the air.
21.27 - The bass is back on for I Saw Her Standing There. That voice doesn't seem to have aged. Close your eyes and you could almost be in The Cavern
21.31 - What a gig! You can tell this audience will be talking about it for years to come.
21.33 - Hang on, he's back!
21.38 - Macca plays Get Back and then he's gone...but you get the feeling he could have gone on for a few more hours at least.

Taken on October 25, 2007.

1.1 Hildur at 7 months

Image by JustDerek
The first photo on the first page of my grandmother's photo album. On the page is written "Hildur 7 mos."

and no one even wanted to have his babies

Image by presta
Here's the second round of shots from Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins, Saturday February Fifth at the Angel Orensanz Foundation.

This show. was. incredible. True, I adore Jenny Lewis like she's a gift from heaven (and am waiting for proof that she isn't), but I was not very much a fan of her solo album - until tonight. Theatrics aside, she showcased a vulnerability and musicianship that doesn't come across on the studio version or even on 2004's bootleg from The Echo in L.A.

This is my first time really shooting in RAW, and I think my haphazard editing shows that.

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