tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48554216659425985242024-02-20T15:05:55.648-08:00Emmanuella GraceEmmanuella Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017556794281620301noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855421665942598524.post-81754626381944375512011-09-08T04:58:00.000-07:002011-09-08T04:58:11.679-07:00Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight / Joan Osborne - One of Us - Mashup<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Emmanuella Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017556794281620301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855421665942598524.post-36891959594064100782011-08-22T16:41:00.000-07:002011-08-22T18:07:28.181-07:00Its been a while...Its been a long while since I blogged. I have deleted some posts so as to focus the blog on what you all know me best for, my songs. Long before I wrote songs I wrote poetry and it is still the starting point for 99% of the songs I write. In fact for every song you hear there is a note book full of poetry and rhymes written.<br />
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Since the last post the album has been launched. Norway has suffered a great and heart breaking battering. Amy Winehouse has died. England has experienced terrifying riots. And that is just 2 weeks in August. I will post about Oslo and London in a separate post.<br />
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What has finally prompted me to expose perhaps the most vulnerable part of my artistic process is this. My Grandmother is dying. She is 89 and I can't imagine a life without her. She is my history. My mothers history. My sisters and aunts and uncles and cousins history and without her I wouldn't have life.<br />
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I know we will mourn. Living so far away from home and knowing this was coming for some years now, I have mourned somewhat. Mostly because I have been back to see her twice in the last year and my heart breaks to see a strong willed, incredible and fascinating woman who gave birth to 7 children in the outback of Australia (and so many grandchildren and great grandchildren I have lost count) in so much pain and so frustrated with her helplessness. But I can choose how I want to remember her. So the first poem I will share with you, Reader, is for her. And for me.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Do you remember the orange trees,</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i> </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>How fruit would sweeten in the winter?</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Cold hard bullets of juice,</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i> </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Thats what I want to remember.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Remember standing in your dressing gown,</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Arms wide when we came home?</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>A little sister for me was born!</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Thats what I want to remember.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Do you remember Vegimite sandwiches,</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i> </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Soft white bread and butter,</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i> </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>I'd squeeze them flat before I ate them,</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i> </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Thats what I want to remember.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Remember swings in the back yard,</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i> </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Ice cream dipped in sprinkles?</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>You always knew a child's want,</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i> </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Thats what I want to remember.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i> </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Remember taking us to Church</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Giving each a coin?</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Stain glass windows, velvet offering bag.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Thats what I want to remember.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i> </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Remember the old toy box on the veranda?</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Brightly jumbled, nothing matched.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Legacy of a happy child.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>You're in my blood so I'll remember.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i> </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span><br />
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For a little preview you can go to: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/emmanuella-grace">http://soundcloud.com/emmanuella-grace</a><br />
It will be available for purchase on the website from the 20th of April!<br />
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I am excited that it is almost done but I am also relieved. We initially had aimed to have it done August last year! Now I just want to get out there an play for you!<br />
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I have a few live sets coming up this month:<br />
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Hope to see you soon!<br />
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<br />Emmanuella Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017556794281620301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855421665942598524.post-36666733774517341702010-11-03T02:08:00.000-07:002010-11-03T02:11:42.581-07:00EMMANUELLA GRACE ON BALCONY TVSORRY that it has been so long since I posted. We have been frantically trying to get the album done in time for Christmas. In the mean time here is a little taster of what I have been up to!<br />
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It was absolutely FREEZING up on that roof top! And POURING down rain....Thank God I brought a marquee with me....I-An the cellist is playing a Cello made in 1786 for a Bohemian Princess.....I was freaking out that it would get wet....On Guitar is Josh Trotter who has played extensively and also Co-Produced on the Album....<br />
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More from me soon....til then....EMMANUELLA GRACE ON BALCONY TV!<br />
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