Waves To Water - Benefit CD/download

Canadian Artists have come together to release a benefit CD in response to the help tsunami affected communities. Volume 2 contatins Sarah Slean's single for When Another Midnight featuring K-os. As posted before, this version was previously only available through iTunes.

Puretracks (puretracks.com) and partner sites are raising funds for the initiative through online sales of two album compilations featuring music by leading Canadian artists, including several new and exclusive tracks. The albums can be downloaded on Puretracks and partner sites for $10 each plus GST. All proceeds will go toward WavesToWater.

-EMI press release

Volume 1: 1. Sarah McLachlan – Shelter 2. Martha Wainwright 3. David Clayton-Thomas – Night Be Kind 4. Loreena McKennitt – Dante’s Prayer (Spanish Version) 5. Jorane – Stay 6. Shaye – Beauty 7. The Clumsy Lovers – Mercy 8. Bruce Cockburn – If A Tree Falls (Acoustic) 9. Hawksley Workman 10. Jim Belushi – Mama Don’t Allow No Guitar Playing 11. Rush – Closer to the Heart 12. Tom Cochrane – Beautiful Day – Whither Must I Wander – We Will Still Need A Song

Volume 2: 1. Andy Stochansky – House of Gold 2. Sarah Slean featuring K-OS – When Another Midnight 3. Our Lady Peace – Imagine (live) 4. The Joel Plaskett Emergency – Extraordinary (Original Demo) 5. Stabilo – Beautiful Madness 6. The Tea Party – Oceans 7. Thornley – Mistake 8. The Marble Index – Days Seem Longer 9. Finger Eleven – Costume for a Gutterball 10. Kazzer – Focus on Tomorrow 11. The Salads – Time 4 Change (live) 12. Simple Plan – American Jesus (live)

You can buy the albums HERE

*You can not buy purchase individual tracks for these albums

Tour Officaly Announced

Slean's tour has now been offically announced.

Sarahslean.com's site features a list of shows and in the boutique section has a few ticket sales (done through maple music). It works out a dollar cheaper for the Toronto show compared to Ticket Master. For more details about any of the shows visit the SarahSlean.com message board as it has 2 Tour forums.

Ticket Master Canada had this as their front page today :)

New Shows added

Some new shows have surfaced on Ticket Master and other sites:

• Feb 17, 2005 - Thu 07:00 PM Mod Club Theatre, Toronto, ON
W/SPECIAL GUEST JORANE, More Info on sale Sat, 01/15/05 10:00 AM

• Feb 18, 2005 - Fri 8:00 PM Hamilton Place Theatre Hamilton, ON
  May be sold out, tickets currently not available on Ticketmaster
  
  
• March 3, 2005 - Thur The Grand Theatre, Kingson, ON
  See rockstar for ticket and show info.

• March 10, 2005 - Thur 8:00 PM Myer Horowitz Theatre Edmonton, AB
More Info on sale Sat, 01/15/05 09:30 AM

• March 15, 2005 - Tue 08:00 PM Richards On Richards Vancouver, BC
More Info on sale Sat, 01/15/05 09:30 AM

• April 4, 2005 - Delta Ballroom, NF
Unconfirmed, source

See this LIST for more unoffical dates on Sarah's Canadian tour.

Sarah Jammin' in Ottawa Friday - CBC

Sarah will be playing a free televised show in Ottawa this Friday. A new forum has been created on SarahSlean.com message board for this event. Cathy posted the following details:
We received this press release from Jammin' Downtown - here's how you can be part of the television taping:

FOLLOW THE MUSIC TO CBC/RADIO-CANADA THIS FRIDAY, WHEN JAMMIN’ DOWNTOWN COMES TO THE CBC BROADCAST CENTRE in Ottawa.

Jan. 14th at 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 7:00pm)
The evening concert will be recorded for television and features Roxanne Potvin, Jim Bryson, Maria Hawkins and Sarah Slean.

Be part of this television special.

Join CBC/Radio-Canada for JAMMIN’ DOWNTOWN, a free musical celebration sure to warm up even the coldest winter day, on Friday, January 14th in Studio 40 of the CBC Broadcast Centre at 181 Queen Street.

The event is free but as space is limited, tickets must be reserved in advance. Call (613) 288-6545 to reserve your ticket now. The public can enter the building at 181 Queen Street.

Update, January 27th:

The video taped evening concert marked the first-ever TV production in the new Ottawa broadcast centre. The show will air March 13 at 4 p.m. in
Ottawa, and features Sarah Slean, singer/songwriter/pianist from
Pickering, Ont.; Jim Bryson, singer/songwriter/guitarist from Ottawa;
Maria Hawkins, "Ottawa's Blues Lady"; and singer Roxanne Potvin, one of
the most promising new talents from the Ottawa area.

- source, Julian from Navy Soup

Littleslean.com Contest!

Littleslean.com is two!

Yep, it's confirmed. This pretty little toddler was conceived about 3 and a half years ago and birthed over the holidays 2 years ago. To celebrate, I am running a contest, only available to the subscribers of the newsletter (so go sign up if you haven't yet!) The winner will receive a mini slean button that reads "I want to be brave" (and has a picture of a nightbug on it) as well as an unopened brand spanking new album of one of my favourite local Torontonian female musicians. Sorry, it's gonna be a surprise, but I will let you know that said musician features our very dear Kevin Fox playing the cello on this album.

Contest details:
Answer correctly all 5 of the questions below and tell me (in 150 words or less) what your favourite sarah slean song is and why. The winner will have his/her story featured in the next newsletter, and of course win my wonderful prize package.

But you better act fast. Contest ends Sunday, Jan 2, 2004 at noon (Vancouver time).

Oh! And for the questions (hint, all answers can be found somewhere on littleslean.com).

1.) Which character from "Alice in Wonderland" did Sarah play when she was in grade 4?
2.) For what rock album did Sarah Slean and Damhnait Doyle collaborate vocals?
3.) Which previous back-up vocalist produced her own album with the help of Melanie Doane and her brother?
4.) In which horror flick was "Weight" played?
5.) Sarah Slean was featured on which daytime talk show in the past few months?

Submissions should be sent to nicole@littleslean.com or you can pm me on the sarahslean.com message board.

Good luck all you little passioneers!

~ng

Governor General Awards - Reminder

Reminder, that Sarah playing at the Governor General Awards will brodcast Thursday at 8:00pm on the CBC. According to viewers of the SRC broadcast on the 26th, Sarah will play "The Score" accompanied by an orchestra. She plays approximately 40 minutes into the performance (8:40pm).

Weathered Out?

Update December 29th. Sarah's management posted that Sarah was sick the morning off the Mix 99 concert and was unable to sing or attend. Full thread.

The Mix 99.9 Christmas show went on at 6-9:00am dispite being dosed with a heavy hit from winter. The Court House was packed with performances going off without a hitch and the addition of some of the boys from BNL. Sadly, pretty early in the show Sarah's name was dropped from their list of performers. In the end she couldn't make it to this show.

+ Tickets for the Hamilton Theatre show went on sale with Ticket Master this morning.

Governor General's Awards - Watch Dec 30th

Sarah was at the Governor General's Awards last month. It's being aired December 30th @ 8pm on CBC. The awards will all so be aired on December 26th @ 8pm on SRC. I'm not to sure about where the SRC brodcasts and what language it would be in.

"The Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Gala A glittering evening of
entertainment honours seven outstanding Canadian performers at the 13th annual
Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Gala, hosted by Gregory Charles. The
Gala, taped at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa in early November features
performances by Emmylou Harris, Jackie Richardson and her daughter Kim
Richardson, singer/songwriter Sarah Slean, The Drums of Arashi Daiko, George Gao on the erhu an ancient Chinese instrument accompanied by the National Arts
Centre Orchestra, sopranos Marie-Josée Lord and Lyne Fortin with baritone Gino
Quilico and Gregory Charles in a rousing finale with a 50-member choir. "

Source, YenC

Have breakfast with Sarah Slean

December 23rd, 6 - 9 a.m. Courthouse Bar & Grill in Toronto
Tickets are by winning on the Mix only

contests imformation

- source: Sweet One

On Monday December 13th's Mix 99.9 morning show, around 7:30 am, tickets for the Christmas Party started to be won with a Humble & Freds "Christmas Idol" competition. Each morning callers can sing a Christmas song on air and at the end of the show one of them will advance to Friday's final competition. The idol (winner) from the Friday competition will get to sing at the Christmas party. The good news is that everyone who competed is invited to the party.

You don't need to sing to win tickets. The "Pull My Finger" contest on Mix 99.9 contestant all so was granted an invite to the Christmas party.

Now I believe the Mix99 will be doing a live brodcast from the downtown Real Canadian Superstore (Dufferin & Steeles) and between 10-2 this Saturday. If you drop off a new toy, they should grant you an invite to the Christmas show.
Promos for this are being aired every hour or so all day on the Mix99, it might get pretty crowded. They are really looking for new toys for the 13+ age as thier is a shortage.



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