Come celebrate Canada with Mr. I & the Rainbow Singers. Bring the family, bring your friends, bring your neighbours, heck – bring the dog too! And most important, bring the kids. This highly entertaining and interactive show sings its way across Canada, coast to coast, east to west, with a visit up north as well. Children from the audience are invited up on stage during the show to hold the Canada flag, play special instruments to simulate the sound of the ocean of the ocean, play train whistles, display giant Canadian coins, and to shimmer about in colourful sheets to represent the fantastic northern lights. After a wild ride across the country the show ends with a special tribute to Canada as a peace-maker in the world today. Listen to the Canada CD to hear some of the songs.
Canada Day Show at the Teddy Bear Picnic 2017
Great fun at Schools too!
Mr. I and the Rainbow Singers perform an incredible CANADA SHOW. It all started years and years ago drawing from the vast knowledge of Canadian folk songs that I have compiled and used in my teaching over the years. And then every year one of my favourite concerts was the CANADA DAY concert. I felt a great sense of community when performing this show. Now it has developed into quite an entertaining, interactive family show and makes one laugh and cry, and feel very proud to be Canadian.
Canada Day, Abbotsford, 2003
Canada Show at Golden Spike Days.
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THE SHOW:
1) HAPPY DAY DAY – Introduces Mr. I & the Rainbow Singers. Happy Song!
2) JUDY LEA’S CANADA SONG – As the first line states, “There’s a rainbow of colours in our faces….” A warm, spirited introductory song to this multicultural country we live in. Audience has tricky clapping part.
3) CANADA RAP – echo rap song listing all province and territories of Canada. Children come up to hold Canada flag.
4) WHEN I FIRST CAME TO THIS LAND – Evokes the sense of the pioneers who first came to this country. Fun and funny as well.
5) THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND – The Canadian version. Everyone sings along and claps hands.
6) WHALE WHALE WHALE/BRITISH COLUMBIA – Let’s begin on the west coast. Children up with rain sticks to evoke the sound of waves.
7) CARIBOO ROAD – Lots of kids up to create a soundscape of what it must have sounded like to drive up the Cariboo Road by horse drawn wagons.
8) CANADA IN MY POCKET – Great song by Michael Mitchell. Describes how the coins in our pockets tell us about our Canadian identity. Children come up to hold giant cardboard coins.
9) 40 BELOW IN THE WINTER – Folksong from Winnipeg area. Tongue-in-cheek song about the cold of the prairies.
10) THE NORTHERN LIGHTS – Children come up to twirl coloured sheets depicting the flickering Northern Lights.
11) CAPE COD SHANTY – Funny song about what one can do with cod fish.
12) LAND OF THE SILVER BIRCH – We sing this classic purely with audience member up to play a real native drum made in Chilliwack, B.C.
13) FRENCH TRAIN SONG – Prep song sung in French.
14) TRANSCANADIAN EXPRESS – Great, spirited tune about a train trip across Canada, coast to coast, children up playing train whistles.
15) IN CANADA – Original song by Mr. I telling how Canadians are peace makers in the world.
