{"id":2448,"date":"2009-04-02T22:51:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T02:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2009-04-02T23:12:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T03:12:43","slug":"the-warriors-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/02\/the-warriors-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"The Warrior’s Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I ordered a copy of Possibilities<\/a>, an EP by Sierra Noble<\/a>. I’d never heard of the ridiculously young Métis from Manitoba prior to today–which actually kind of surprises me–but as soon as I encountered her on the web today I knew I was going to buy the album.<\/p>\n

What I encountered today (indirectly, via Penguin Eggs<\/a>) that made up my mind was a video of Noble<\/a> performing her composition, “The Warrior’s Lament” at the 90th Anniversary<\/a> of the Assault on Vimy Ridge<\/a> at the Vimy Memorial<\/a> in France a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n

I expect this will mean more to the Canadians reading, but take a second to watch this:<\/p>\n

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She was 17 when that was recorded. She wrote the piece when she was 11Actually, a little work with Google reveals that she wrote it as a lament for her grandmother at age 11, and subtly changed it as it transformed into “The Métis Prayer” and then “The Warrior’s Lament”.<\/footnote>. Man. Two years earlier she had been involved in the Aboriginal Spiritual Journey, which probably laid the groundwork for that performance–there’s a bit of her writing about the experience<\/a> up at the Veterans Affairs site.<\/p>\n

I think my father-in-law was actually at the ceremony, and I may give him some light abuse for not mentioning this performance to me. It sure looks and sounds great in the video.<\/p>\n

Noble has an MP3 of the performance<\/a> at her site. You can hear more of her stuff, generally a lot more upbeat, at a CBC concert on demand from last year<\/a>, and her MySpace page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not ordered today, but I swear sometime before I die: a close to actual-size museum quality reproduction<\/a> of William Longstaff<\/a>‘s painting The Battle Of Vimy Ridge<\/a>. And maybe I’ll work a little embedded electronics into the frame, so it can play that tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I ordered a copy of Possibilities, an EP by Sierra Noble. I’d never heard of the ridiculously young Métis from Manitoba prior to today–which actually kind of surprises me–but as soon as I encountered her on the web today I knew I was going to buy the album. What I encountered today (indirectly, via Penguin Eggs) that made up… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[82,260,61,86,84,144,459,124,126,208,241,214,85],"class_list":["post-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-storytime","tag-art","tag-beautiful-things","tag-canada","tag-cbc","tag-embed","tag-mp3","tag-music","tag-performance","tag-something-great","tag-things-to-listen-to","tag-war","tag-youth","tag-youtube","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-Du","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}