2021 NEW Book: MY MAGIC WINDOW, Everyday Encouragement in Poetry and Prose
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Rosalee's New Book
For over 20 years, Rosalee has celebrated Grandmothers' Voices in story and song and now she is a grandmother! Rosalee is excited to announce her new book:
MY MAGIC WINDOW
Everyday Encouragement in Poetry and Prose
This is a very light, easy reading, touching and witty heartfelt book of poetry and prose and photos reflecting the beauty, simplicity, frustrations and fun of everyday life in our trying times.
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MY MAGIC WINDOW is available now in Print and Digital Ebook. Just click the button below for links to get your copy.
Rosalee's CD's
DIGITAL ALBUMS AVAILABLE ! Click below
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Voices album is about rising from adversity. It includes original oral history and personal songs as well as covers to uplift and inspire.
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Legacy is full of Canadian women's oral history stories, masterfully crafted into beautiful songs.
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No Place Like Home immersed 20 years ago as Rosalee's acclaimed debut album of Canadian women's oral history
Rosalee
ROSALEE's NOTES
Who am I?
1. I am a singer. My voice is strong yet delicate and I have been trained to use the whole thing. I sing in different styles: I love roots, I also love blues, jazz and opera and sing them all in my folk-fusion style. My voice and art are unique.
2. I am a poet. I started lisping life in poems at age 3. I love to distill life into potent poetry. I love to taste words and phrases, to say and sing them until they quicken in others ears and imaginations. In Spoken Word and in Song, I am a poet.
3. I am a composer of music. Along with life's lyrics come its tunes. I hear music in words and phrases. Melodies leak from life as readily as tears of joy or sorrow. My music is singable, both serious and silly.
4. I am a musical, women's oral historian. Since 1999 I have been honoured to listen to our elder women, record and research their stories, write them in song and perform them for international audiences. I am passionate about imparting women's stories. They are the foundation of how our societies work. They are the largest majority of unsung heroes. They are the Grand Mothers of our country. I am passionate about our women's oral history and love sharing our stories.
ROSALEE's WORK
Nova Scotian, Rosalee Peppard and her effervescent art are truly unique: A musical women's historian, Rosalee collects and transcribes an authentic living echo of the voices of Canadian women she interviews and researches. She crafts their stories into "Song Portraits", and shares them powerfully in her “Hauntingly beautiful live performance”.
Inspirational, Educational, Motivational
Through a variety of musical voices - from Folk to Blues to Opera - themes of Love, Literacy, Triumph over loss and shame, Heritage and humour, all soar on Rosalee’s shimmering voice, self-accompanied on guitars and dulcimers. Rosalee connects listeners with our poignant, "living" past. She colours each show with her exciting interpretations of traditional and popular songs we all know and love, and polishes each concert with the light of laughter and fun.
Rosalee loves to share the secret of these voices and has great joy in teaching the history, literary and music composition, in her concerts, or her speaking/singing presentations, as well as vocal and writing workshops.