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Prism Prize Video - Madeleine Roger: Cottonwood

The 2019 Prism Prize for Best Canadian Music Video was awarded to Kevan Funk, for his clip for Belle Game’s Low. We will continue to profile noteworthy Canadian videos, including this one from a Winnipeg folk singer/songwriter.

Prism Prize Video - Madeleine Roger: Cottonwood

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The 2019 Prism Prize for Best Canadian Music Video was awarded to Kevan Funk, for his clip for Belle Game’s Low. We will continue to profile noteworthy Canadian videos, including this one from a Winnipeg folk singer/songwriter.


Madeleine Roger - Cottonwood

Madeleine Roger is a folk singer/songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She co-produced and co-engineered the track with Lloyd Peterson.

The lyrics of this song project a nostalgic feeling of growing up. She begins each ‘section’ of the song by singing about the type of tree and referring to how it starts off small from the edge of the century. Madeleine says she wrote this song for one of her best friends when she had learned that he and his partner were expecting their first child. She wanted to create a song that imagined them growing up from the perspective of her favourite trees.

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The video itself captures the beauty of nature, showing seeds emerging from pods, seedlings sprouting, flowers blooming and wilting - portraying the circle of life in nature. 

Video by Joel Penner. He is a filmmaker who uses computer scanners to create time lapses of plant and fungi growing and decaying with the goal of creating films that celebrates the beauty of everyday existence. 

AUDIO: 

Written by Madeleine Roger. Co-Produced by Madeleine Roger & Lloyd Peterson 

Recorded by Lloyd Peterson at Paintbox Recording in Winnipeg, MB.  Mixed by Lloyd Peterson & Madeleine Roger 

Mastered by Maeghan Ritchat at Lacquer Channel, Toronto ON 

MUSICIANS: 

Madeleine Roger on Acoustic Guitar, Piano, and Vocals 

Julian Bradford on Upright Bass 

Aisha Bell on Violin

Corey Ticknor on Mandolin 

Harmonies by Olivia Maxfield

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Jane McGarrigle with sisters Anna and Kate
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Jane McGarrigle with sisters Anna and Kate

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Obituaries: Remembering Artist Manager/Musician Jane McGarrigle, Singer Marianne Faithfull

This week we also acknowledge the passing of pedal steel pioneer Susan Alcorn and American publishing executive Ben Vaughn.

(Laury) Jane McGarrigle, a Canadian songwriter, musician, music publisher, artist manager and author who worked extensively with her sisters, folk legends Kate & Anna McGarrigle, died on Jan. 24, at age 84, of ovarian cancer.

A Celebrity Access obituary notes that "Jane McGarrigle began her career in music when she was just 14 after she was recruited by nuns to play organ at l’Église de Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts, a historic Catholic church in Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Canada.

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