5 on Friday -- Set 249

Spinning Friday tunes since 2010...

For anyone who wants to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the set posted by the other 5 on Friday blogger -- you can sign in over at Golch Central's Rambling Stuff.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American readers!

My husband and I had a great evening at the Sarah McLachlan concert here in Halifax last week.

This week's 5 on Friday includes songs from her concert set list. 

1 - Adia 

2 - Angel    

3 - Sweet Surrender   

4 - River

This one was a request from the audience -- could she sing a favorite Christmas tune?

   

5 - The Sound That Love Makes

This was the last song of her encore, a tune by Luke Doucet  

5 on Friday -- Set 230

Spinning Friday tunes since 2010...

For anyone who wants to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the set posted by the other 5 on Friday blogger -- you can sign in over at Golch Central's Rambling Stuff.

Happy 4th of July to my American family and friends! If you're not on the eastern seaboard, may you have a great long weekend. For those of us in the path of Hurricane Arthur, take cover and be safe.

Up here in the Great White North, we celebrated Canada Day on Tuesday, which split up the work week into manageable little chunks.

Now that July has arrived, it's time for my monthly feature for 5 on Friday -- The Hit Makers.

Once a month I'm going to feature the songs that launched careers. I'll be looking at different musical styles and the groups or singers from those styles who I love the best.

To celebrate my home and native land, here are five of my favourite Canadian artists and the songs that brought them to the masses.

1 - High School Confidential -- Rough Trade

2 - Lovers in a Dangerous Time -- Barenaked Ladies

3 - Constant Craving -- k d lang

4 - Building a Mystery -- Sarah McLachlan 

5 - Brother Down -- Sam Roberts

5 on Friday -- Set 195

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

The great NaNoWriMo writing marathon of 2013 has begun. If you're doing the marathon and you want to find me, I'm NaNo-ing as vamprom.

For today's music mix, let's go for the chicks. Female point-of-view, and all that.

1 - Bubbly -- Colbie Caillat

2 - Sweet Surrender -- Sarah McLachlan

3 - The Battle of Evermore -- Led Zeppelin with Sandy Denny

This is a combo song, with folk singer Sandy Denny joining with male supergroup Led Zeppelin and lead singer Robert Plant. They compliment each other beautifully. Strangely enough, I'm a big fan of Led Zeppelin, while my husband is an admirer of Sandy Denny.

4 - Come Away With Me -- Norah Jones

5 - You Were Meant For Me -- Jewel

SAINT SANGUINUS is reviewed at Books, Books and More Books, and is the featured book at Coffee Addicted Writer / 5 on Friday - Set 125

SAINT SANGUINUS is reviewed on Friday the 29th at Books, Books and More Books.

It's also the featured book at Coffee Addicted Writer.

Meanwhile...

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

Happy Canada Day weekend to all of my fellow Canadian bloggers and readers!

To celebrate, here are five Canadian chanteuses to get this party started.

1 - In Perfect Dreams (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues soundtrack) - k d lang 

2 - Possession - Sarah McLachlan

3 - Basement Apartment - Sarah Harmer

4 - Chances - Jill Barber

5 - All Good Things (Come to an End) - Nelly Furtado