The Ongoing Revelations of Kathryn Rose
Note from KR:
I am obviously too busy to Blog right now, between my concert schedule and two young kids (age 4 and 1), but please follow me at my Facebook fanpage and Twitter. I update those often! When I can, I will Blog again because I love to write. All past entries are still up for those who haven't been here before.
-KR, April 27/10.
Blog Description:
What began as a personal make-work project while on Sarah McLachlan's 2004 Afterglow World Tour soon evolved into a popular online diary. People have enjoyed Kathryn's prose writing so much they've told her she should write a book, and maybe she will!
Feel free to read this Blog from the beginning:
(Feb. 10, 2004): "Entry #1: The Grammys".
Please Keep The Socks Out Of The Sterile Field
May 30th, 2009THINGS
Things are busy and things are good.
My 10 weeks old baby son weighs just over 12 pounds. (He was 6 lbs, 14 oz. at birth.)
I'M COVERED
Melanie Doane covered my song "One Person" in The Songbook 3 with the Art Of Time Ensemble this week. This is the second song of mine to appear in the Art Of Time's Songbook concert series. Sarah Slean did "I Don't Need More" in The Songbook 1 in 2007. I was thrilled to be included in Melanie's choice of songwriters for her concert: Irving Berlin, Randy Newman, Tom Waits, April Wine, Joel Plaskett, Gene MacLellan, Hank Snow, Stan Rogers, Kathryn Rose, Kim Mitchell, Don Messer and Leonard Cohen. Not too shabby!
When introducing the song, Melanie mentioned that I had written it as a wedding gift for my husband David and had sung it at our wedding. The lovely Art Of Time arrangement of the song began with a "roller-coaster-y" string part, very delicate, and as Melanie began singing, David and I both got a bit weepy. It was great. I was wondering if I would get a chance to meet Andrew Downing who had done the arrangement. Right before the end of intermission, the guy next to me said, "are you Kathryn Rose?" He was Andrew Downing. Funny.
MASSEY HALL
Melanie and Emilie-Claire Barlow and I are performing as the trio at Luminato / The Canadian Songbook: A Tribute to Neil Young's Live at Massey Hall, taking place on June 10 at Massey Hall. We just got together and did a vocal arrangement of the song yesterday. Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming press that we've been doing for the show in the Globe & Mail and Inside Entertainment Magazine. Here's the list of artists and songs:
Bill Frisell Trio - On the Way Home;
Tony Scherr (with Bill Frisell) - Tell Me Why;
Holly Cole - Old Man;
Steven Page - Journey Through the Past;
Danny Michel - Helpless;
Cowboy Junkies - Love in Mind;
Stevie Jackson - A Man Needs a Maid;
Colin James - Heart of Gold;
Kathryn Rose, Emilie-Claire Barlow & Melanie Doane - Cowgirl in the Sand;
Cowboy Junkies - Don't Let it Bring You Down;
Issa (formerly Jane Siberry)- There's a World;
Roxanne Potvin - Bad Fog of Loneliness;
Chocolate Genius Inc. - The Needle and the Damage Done;
Carole Pope - Ohio;
Jason Collett - See The Sky About To Rain;
Harry Manx - Down by the River;
Colin Linden - Dance, Dance, Dance;
Sarah Slean - I Am a Child.
COLLECTOR'S ITEM
A hardcopy of the "Kathryn Rose" CD (2005) is about to become a collector's item! It's a long and boring story, but my old label can't find the artwork files and the layout artist's backup files were lost in a system crash, so instead of fretting about the fact that I'm just about sold out of that CD and can't make another run...
I'm going to release a CD compilation of my work with a few new tracks, called "Something I Can Use", which of course is the name of the first song from My Little Flame. This compilation will serve as a teaser for my next (4th solo) album (also still in the works), and will tide me over for having a current release to sell in my travels. Thomas Payne and I are putting it together right now. I have a photo shoot coming up for the compilation artwork. This will all be happening fast, so stay tuned!
YOU CAN KEEP YOUR SOCKS ON
When we said goodbye to our midwife Marlene after Ivor's 6th week post-birth appointment, I made her a gift package including a small stylish throw pillow embroidered with the words, "Please Keep The Socks Out Of The Sterile Field". It was hard to fit that on a pillow but that was the point. The quote is something she said as a joke during my labour with Ivor. She had been teasing me for wearing a certain pair of socks during the whole labour and birth. Anyway, here's a picture of the pillow. Thank god she laughed when she saw it, because it was a bit of a major project. But I knew she would. Marlene was our midwife for Miranda as well. She rocks.
Baby's cryin'. Must be off.
xo kr
Photos:
-Melanie, Emilie and I from the Inside E Magazine photo shoot for the June 10 Luminato/Massey Hall show.
-The pillow I made for my midwife.
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