Gardencourt

Mercurial Mercures

gardencourt — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:45:41 +0000

A snippet of Michèle Mercure in 1977 singing and playing her composition accompanied by her mum Monique Mercure the reknown Quebec actress and cellist and her twin brothers, Christian, sitar and the late Daniel, piano.
This is so lovely. I hope we can get the whole clip. Michèle was Gaby’s tenant at Gardencourt in the Winter of 1971. She and 2 friends rented Camp 63.
Mercurial Mercures

St-Sauveur New Year 2011-2012, in photos

gardencourt — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:15:05 +0000

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Hedge fun

gardencourt — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:53:28 +0000

Kate Anna Rufus Lily Martha and Sylvan - Gardencourt circa 1985, pic by Dane Lanken.

It would seem that not everyone enjoyed this singing session up against the old cedar hedge at Gardencourt.. Another pic in this series was used for the UK charity record Feed the Folk. Our contribution to the project was the song A Place in Your Heart.

Les gens de Gardencourt souhaitent à tous une joyeuse St-Jean-Batiste.

gardencourt — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 01:50:24 +0000

We aren’t flag people but Robert Lanctot loaned us his amazing fleur-de-lys and though it’s thoroughly soaked having been out in the rain since Vinnie hoisted it into the trees yesterday the wind just now managed to breathe a little life into it. Also Vin strung up the lights. They’re normally red and white to compliment the original Gardencourt colour scheme, no political message here, but tonight for a change they’re blue and white. Rufus and Martha join Robert Charlebois and a variety of wonderful artists in the big St Jean concert at Parc Maisonneuve in Montréal, Qc. Bonne chance à tous et merci.

Hommage à Claude Léveillée des gens de Gardencourt.

gardencourt — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:25:43 +0000

A snippet of Clo-Clo’s ‘Les après-midis d’hier’ from his 1961 Columbia Records release. (Sounds like he may have reworked part of this song into ‘Frédéric.’) Everything is authentic here including the scratches. A wonderful recording with liner notes by of all people Anita Loos who mentions that at the time of the sessions she and Claude were working together on a musical. Wonder what happened to that?

mittenstrings snippet at muziekfest in point st charles

gardencourt — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 01:05:21 +0000

a couple of verses of the song ‘rochester’ during the soundcheck.

The window people and Canadian Thanksgiving 2010.

gardencourt — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:29:32 +0000

I think Kathleen, Vinnie and Lily took these. They’ve been uploaded to the gardencourt site since last year but I think somebody forgot to click the publish button. What a beautiful Fall day that was. Today’s forecast, rain for the next 18 hours.
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arco and the ampeg wall

gardencourt — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:47:26 +0000

Huffpo + AOL (this blog was meant for the PITSOL site)

gardencourt — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:24:19 +0000

I would have thought Huffpo was worth a lot more than 300 million. I think having all those links to sensational stories cheapened it. It was better as a political blog and the commenters were smarter back then. I’m wondering if the way Al-jazeera English has come on in a big big way rushed Arianna into this forced marriage with AOL. And of course there was the scare of the Daily Beast, a digital rag now, but it never had the cachet Huffpo had, plummy British editor Tina Brown notwithstanding. Al-jazeera is relatively pure in that it sticks to political stories and it’s anchors are fully clothed though some have been showing more chest of late, drawing the line at cleavage. Our satellite provider has started giving it to us for free hoping we’ll be regular subscribers. I think we’re sold. Vis a vis CNN, I like Piers Morgan a lot and he should pick up more discriminating viewers for the network.

NPR host Tom Ashcroft is sounding alarmist as he grills some Egyptian mouthpiece with stuff like ‘what if Egypt falls into the hands of religious fundamentalists?’ Hello, Tom! What about the religious fundamentalists calling the shots in your own Government?

Today

gardencourt — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:14:39 +0000