Hello Timmins Voices fans. It is with great pleasure that I am announcing the premier of the television version of Timmins Voices that will be broadcast on Eastlink TV Channel Three in Timmins beginning sometime this week or next...I haven't been able to get the exact times, but here is the letter I received from Neil White the producer of "Voices" as the series will be called (see below).
For those of you who want to participate in the 2014 edition please send me an email at [email protected] please put Voices 2014 in the subject line.... And stay tuned for photos of some of the recording sessions.
This first season of "Voices" 2013 will feature the following performers:
Frank Giorno (author "Elvis in America", (2006), "Arrivederci Plastic Covered Couch," (2008), "Internee 328 - Camp Petawawa" in Beyond Barbed Wire, Guernica Editions (2012)Bill Shaver, (published in Northern Voices Journal)
Vern Cheechoo (twice nominated for Juno Awards,"Lonesome and Hurtin'" music was used in Bruce McDonald's film Dance Me Outside 1995),
Katlyn Malo (author, "Timmins: Portrait of My Hometown," 2012)
Paula Mascioli (author, "Hello Out There", published in Behind Barbed Wires, Guernica Editions, 2012
Charlie Angus, MP Timmins - James Bay (author "Cage Call", member of The Grievous Angels musical group)
Michelle Couture (author, Northern Voices Journal)
Ana Niemi Gibson
Mayor Tom Laughren, (Mayor of Timmins)
Ray Cool (local musician)
Rob Lillie (local musician)
Gilles Bisson MPP, Timmins James Bay (On need to improve safety in our mining industry)
