A Moveable Musical Feast features 25 minutes of previously unreleased musical performances. From a vantage point even better than a front-row seat, we join Loreena and her musicians centre stage.
A Moveable Musical Feast features 25 minutes of previously unreleased musical performances. From a vantage point even better than a front-row seat, we join Loreena and her musicians centre stage and observe the musical alchemy first-hand as they perform “The Highwayman”, “Never-Ending Road (Amhrán Duit)” and “The Gates of Istanbul”.
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There are so many roads and so many journeys – the long and winding road, a road to nowhere, the road less travelled – many have been celebrated in song and in verse. For travelling musicians, life on the road holds its own ephemeral images of voyage and discovery.
In a long-honoured tradition, itinerant minstrels moved through the landscape using carts, carriages and portable stage platforms. Now we modern nomads roam the world in buses, trucks and planes.
The themes are always the same. From “Where are we and what is there new to see and learn?” to “What is there to eat?” We are all too familiar with the trundling on the highways and byways through the middle of the night, with lights flashing and a sign that says we are only 2,000 miles from our destination.
I have invited my fellow travellers and musical companions to sit around the table with us and share their voices, as it was with those tales that knew a thousand and one nights.
In the end, we seek to deliver a musical experience that in many ways resembles a lovingly prepared meal. Of course we would like to think it a feast, but that is not for us to say. What I do know is that the music is not complete until we have broken bread together.
Welcome to our table! Partake of our journey. LM
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CREDITS
Executive Producer: Loreena McKennitt
Director: Rich Schlansker
Editors: Michael Slavens, Michael Simses
Producers:
Perseus Productions Inc.
Loreena McKennitt, Su Hutchinson
Zoomarifilms
Rich Schlansker, Marc Bloomgarden
Associate Producer: Jesse Ash
Audio:
Recorded & Mixed by Jeff Wolpert
Mastered by Bob Ludwig, Gateway Mastering Studios, Inc.
DVD authoring and encoding: Thomas Ryan Gateway Mastering & DVD
Graphic Design: Dean St. Croix
Select Photography: Bob Stamp
Live Performances
“The Gates Of Istanbul”
Music and Lyric by Loreena McKennitt
“The Highwayman”
Words by Alfred Noyes, abridged by Loreena McKennitt
Music by Loreena McKennitt
“Never-Ending Road – (Amhrán Duit)”
Music and Lyric by Loreena McKennitt
Additional Music:
From the Quinlan Road CD An Ancient Muse
“Incantation”
“The Gates Of Istanbul”
“Caravanserai”
“Kecharitomene”
“Sacred Shabbat”
“Beneath A Phrygian Sky”
From the Quinlan Road CD The Book Of Secrets
“Marco Polo”
“La Serenissima”
From the Quinlan Road CD The Mask And Mirror
“The Bonny Swans”
“The Dark Night Of The Soul”
From the Quinlan Road CD The Visit
“Between The Shadows”
From the Quinlan Road CD Elemental
“Come By The Hills”
All songs written and/or arranged by Loreena McKennitt. All songs are copyright throughout the world by Quinlan Road Music Ltd.
(SOCAN/BMI). In Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, all rights are administered by Quinlan Road Music Ltd. Throughout the rest of the world, all rights are administered by Universal Music Publishing MGB except for:
“The Highwayman”
Words by Alfred Noyes
abridged by Loreena McKennitt
Music by Loreena McKennitt
“Sacred Shabbat”
Traditional, arranged by Loreena McKennitt
“Edelweiss”
Written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (Williamson Music)
Special Thanks
Manoir Hovey, North Hatley, Quebec
www.manoirhovey.com
The Madrigal Classical Record Shop, Halifax, NS
www.themadrigal.com
Still photography courtesy of:
Ann Cutting
Jane Edmonds
Elisabeth Feryn
John Hazen
Pamela Hughes
Demetris Koilalous
Gerry Kopelow
Stefan Malzkorn
J. McArdle
Sveva Sanseverino
David Street
Additional Footage Courtesy Of:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: TV Archives Sales
“Super Dave Osborne Show” footage courtesy of Super Dave Productions Ltd
Real World Studios footage – York Tillyer
How to Make and Sell Your Own Recording book jacket courtesy of the author, Diane Rapaport
Billboard, Nielsen Business Media
Special thanks to Real World Studios, Bath, UK
Documentary Production
zoomarifilms, (Canada):
Camera Operators
Rich Schlansker
Andre Khabad
Stephane Kesgeski
Brian Miller
Pierre Dussault
Nicholas Faust
Andre LaPointe
Norman Lateur
Sébastien LeCorre
Eddy Paul
Bob Zimmerman
Carl Alcock
Sean Cable
Jim Borecki
Steadicam Operators
Gilles Fillion
Jim Van Dijk
Norbert Kaluza
Steadicam Assistants
Larry Portman
Robert Wood
Engineers
Keith Holding
Brent Marchenski
Key Dolly Grip
Guy Bissonnet
Audio Operators
Chris Breier
Mike Curtiss
Dan Stewart
Brent Robichaud
Utilities
Claude Pothier
Nelson Renaud
Production Assistant
Raynald Lavoie
zoomarifilms, (USA):
Camera Operators
Rich Schlansker
Brian Miller
Michael Mulvey
Mark McCauley
Audio Operators
Mike Curtiss
Dave Baker
Production Assistant
Raynald Lavoie
Edit Assistants
Andrew Neary
Skyler Rousselet
Production Rentals
Video Equipment Rentals, Craig Ellefsen
Gary Theobald Productions, Inc.
Tour Personnel
Executive Assistant:
Mark McCauley
Tour Manager
Roger Searle
Production Manager
Grant McAree
House Sound Engineer
Clive Alcock
Lighting Designer
Bob Stamp
Set Design
Doug Paraschuk
Stage Monitor Engineer
Dave Pallett
Stage Manager
Terry Mueller
Production Assistant
Darlene Blaeser
Stage Technician
Philippe Hebert
Stage Technician
Jonathan McAuley
Harp and Piano Technician
Peter Danilowicz
Audio System Technician
Keith Watson
Audio Technician
Pete Villeneuve
Lighting Technician
Graeme Rivers
Merchandiser
Errol Fischer
Merchandiser
Susan Rolph
Masseuse
Christine Sutherland
Dietician
Suzi McGowan
Make-up
Diana Carreiro
Artist Bus Driver
Tom Blauvelt
Band Bus Driver
Tom Torrisi
Crew Bus Driver
Linda Wiley
Crew Bus Driver
Steve Morgan
Truck Driver
Pierre Labelle
Truck Driver
Francois St-Jean
Tour Support
Allstar Show Industries
Christie Lighting
Stratford Festival Design
Les Enterprises Truck n Roll
Roberts Bros. Coaches
Carlson Wagonlit Blowes Travel
En Tour LTD.
BZEE Brokerage
Quinlan Road Limited Perseus Productions Inc.
Ian Blackaby
Business Affairs
Ron Hay
Legal
Stohn Hay Cafazzo Dembroski Richmond, LLP
Michael Till and Peter Williams
Archives
A Moveable Musical Feast is a unique souvenir of Loreena McKennitt’s 2007 An Ancient Muse tour and offers a rare backstage look at one of contemporary music’s most interesting live performers.
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