Sunday, April 3, 2011

Pawnshop Diamond releases archival images.

Hello All!  I haven't posted anything in quite a while.  I'm so very excited to release our (Pawnshop Diamond's) newest song, "Sea Captain".  It is pure Canadiana folk-pop and I'm so very proud of it.

We will be release a song each month and when we are done, there will be a super huge, fun party!  Until then, enjoy the song.  Click the link provided and you can immediately download the song into iTunes or whatever music platform you use.

The song is embedded with images and the song lyrics.  The images are archival images that relate directly to the song and to our beautiful Northwest Coast of British Columbia, Canada.  If you like the song, pass it on!   Sea Captain download.

A quote from Katie, our songwriter extraordinaire:
"The archival photos attached to the track were provided to me by my cousin, Glenn Ormiston, who has made our family proud by following the Ormiston tradition and is himself a captain in the Coast Guard. The ship is the Estevan, the last ship my grandfather captained before retiring.  The man standing on the mast is John Ormiston and in the other two photos is my grandfather, the Captain.

I would like to dedicate this song to the memory of my Aunt Sybil. She was the child of the pregnancy referenced to in the song and recently passed away just days shy of her 103 birthday. My father didn't learn about her until late in life and though I never met her, I did type all the letters my father wrote to her when he made contact. They were beautiful letters telling her stories about their father, a man she never knew. May she rest in peace and live on in song."

Lynn

2 comments:

  1. This is awesome and such a wonderful piece of commemorative family history.

    Jennifer

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  2. Hi Lynn

    My daughter maja's second name is Sybil.
    Also, do you know any good spoken word artists? I'm searching for edgy, political and for a long shot-blue collar worker like Tom Waits meets Ani DiFranco. email me at info@cumberlandmuseum.ca

    Michelle Peters (three upcoming fundraising events)

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