Magical Solstice Broadcast

Listen on Dec 21st – available for 24 hours

CHRISTMAS IN CORNUCOPIA, the popular winter story about a town so beautiful it inspired songs and stories since ‘time immemorial’ will be broadcast and available as a podcast on December 21st 2020, all day, for free, to celebrate the Winter Solstice and to bring light into our lives at the end of this Year of the Pandemic.  

The story toured British Columbia and Washington state to excellent reviews, and was broadcast on CBC national and regional radio numerous times. This recording features beautiful four-part harmonies by After Hours, a Sunshine Coast vocal jazz quartet, singing Christmas favourites in and out as background to the story. Locals Patrice Pollack, Brian Harbison, Brian Corbett and Mary Ellen Scribner were members of this group and the recording was produced at White Line Studios in Gibsons with Dave Kelln. 

CORNUCOPIA begins with “In everyone’s life, there are magic times!” and traces a child’s love for ice skating back to a moonlit moment on a dangerous frozen lake on Christmas Eve. An ode to creativity, the story reaches back into her childhood and her relationship with her best friend Marnie, who loved to play the drums, but was not encouraged by her family to play. Both girls become women as the town changes and they follow their separate fates, only to be reunited on the same dangerous, frozen lake of Christmas Present. 

Performed by Caitlin Hicks, with sound design by Gord Halloran, the short story can be downloaded and listened to in the 24 hour period of the Winter Solstice, December 21st, as a temporary episode in the podcast series SOME KINDA WOMAN, Stories of Us – on iTunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio and wherever podcasts are found. 

 

 

Listen here, your invitation to CHRISTMAS IN CORNUCOPIA on The Winter Solstice, December 21st

 

 

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