Album Review: Fortunate Ones - That Was You And Me
Album Review: @FortunateOnesNL - That Was You and Me
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This is a long overdue review of the new album by JUNO-nominated Canadian folk duo, Fortunate Ones. Having released on May 6th of this year, That Was You and Me is a gorgeous musical journey full of wonderful melodies, dancing harmonies, and heart felt story telling.
The duo consists of Catherine Allan and Andrew James O’Brien. This album was written during a challenging time in their lives,…
25-May-2018: ‘Hold Fast’, album by Fortunate Ones
Record Label: Old Farm Pony Records.
The fifth album by Fortunate Ones is titled ‘Hold Fast’ and was just released on label Old Farm Pony Records and is now available on Spotify. The album has no rating on Last.FM, indicating it is not all that popular (or just to soon to tell).
Album cover for Fortunate Ones’s new album: Hold Fast
25-May-2018: ‘Hold Fast’, album by Fortunate Ones
Released on Label: Old Farm Pony Records.
Fortunate Ones’s fifth album was just released on Old Farm Pony Records and is now available for streaming on Spotify. The album is not rated on Last.FM, indicating it is not all that popular (or just to soon to tell).
Album cover for Fortunate Ones’s new album: Hold Fast
Catherine Allan Accepting the 1997 Peabody Award for “LIBERTY! The American Revolution”
What does it mean to be an “American?” In a country of immigrants, ill-defined by race or ethnicity, political beliefs and principles are our common thread. No single era of American history has more to do with shaping those beliefs than does the revolutionary period. What the American Revolution created, and how it continues to influence a nation now heading into the 21st century, are the subjects of LIBERTY! Spanning 1763 to 1789, this six-part dramatic documentary chronicles the impressive, often conflicted story of how 13 diverse colonies became a nation, bound by faith in a new kind of government.
Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/liberty-the-american-revolution
Catherine Allan & Gerald Richman Accepting the 1995 Peabody Award for “Hoop Dreams”
Nearly ten years ago, film makers Steve James, Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert began documenting life on an around Chicago’s playground basketball courts. Their camera focused on William Gates and Arthur Agee, two schoolboy athletes whose dreams of paying in the National Basketball Association collided with academics, family life, economic hardship and injury. The issues addressed in the film include teen and single parenting, the lure of drugs and violence, the importance of self-motivation and self-acceptance, and the conflict between athletic and academic performance.
Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/hoop-dreams
2012 Student Academy Award Winners Document Japanese Internment, Cuban Expatriates and Environmental Burial
Don't let the novice-insinuating connotation of the Student Academy Awards fool you. Recipients of these annual junior Oscars tend to go on to great things (such as Hoop Dreams executive producer Catherine Allan, Food, Inc. editor Kim Roberts and comedian Bob Saget, who apparently directed a short about reconstructive surgery).
And sometimes the winning films are nominated for the big league Academy Awards as well. Those double-dippers include Elaine Holliman's Chicks in White Satin and Roland Hallé and Peter W. Ladue's Karl Hess: Toward Liberty, which took the Oscar in 1981.
On Friday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented this year's student prizes, which as usual included three medals given to short documentary films. The winners are on an Olympics-like scale of gold, silver and bronze, but for the most part their status is fairly equal. Some press don't even report the distinction between them.
And back when Incident in New Baghdad helmer James Spione won a Student Academy Award in 1987, for Prelude, the secondary prizes were called "Merit" medals and the primary prizes were called "Achievement."
Gold Medal: Hiro: A Story of Japanese Internment by Keiko Wright of New York University
"This film explores the life of Hiroshi ‘Hiro’ Hoshizaki, a retired grandfather of six, who was imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp during his adolescence. As we follow Hiroshi on his own journey to confront the events and memories of his past, we learn of his experiences while imprisoned at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center and the traumatic repercussions this experience has had on him, and his family."
Silver Medal: Dying Green by Ellen Tripler of American University
"Set in the foothills of the Appalachians, this film explores one man’s vision of using green burials to conserve land. Dr. Billy Campbell, the town’s only physician, and his efforts have radically changed our understanding of burials in the United States. Dr. Campbell’s dream is to conserve one million acres of land. Dying Green focuses on the revolutionary idea of using our own death to fund land conservation and create wildlife preserves." - Environmental Film Festival DC
Bronze Medal: Lost Country by Heather Burky of the Art Institute of Jacksonville
"Over fifty years later, three Cuban ex-patriots tell their stories of how they fought the Castro Revolution and how their homeland was lost to communism only ninety miles away from the United States."
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