Friday, April 02, 2010

Rebirth of a Nation

I've tweeted this a few times before but I haven't fallen in love with a song so fast and so much in a long time, so I'm posting it for Good Friday/Easter. Strange especially since this is a Canadian All-Star remake of a current Canadian radio hit (and upcoming South African FIFA World Cup song) that I don't actually like that much. K'Naan's "Wavin' Flag" is still currently making its way up the Canadian charts but now he's lent it to Young Artists for Haiti and I'm LOVING this new version.

Okay, so it's Canadian stars so the rest of you probably won't know many of them, and heck, there's a bunch of folks I still haven't figured out who they are, but I see Nelly Furtado, Sam Roberts, Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan's Pierre Bouvier, Lights, Sum 41's Deryck Whibley Whibley, Blue Rodeo's Jim Cuddy, Jully Black, Jacob Hoggard, Justin Nozuka, Fefe Dobson, Corb Lund, Drake, Nikki Yanofsky, and Justin Bieber.



I love the french dude. Pierre Lapointe.

To donate to Haiti, go here. Or in general to Doctors Without Borders.

Oh, here's the full list of artists:
Soloists (in order of appearance)
K'naan
Nelly Furtado
Sam Roberts
Avril Lavigne
Pierre Bouvier
Tyler Connolly
Kardinal Offishall
Jully Black
LIGHTS
Deryck Whibley
Serena Ryder
Jacob Hoggard
Emily Haines
Hawksley Workman
Drake (solo rap)
Chin Injeti
Ima
Pierre Lapointe
Elisapie Isaac
Esthero
Corb Lund
Fefe Dobson
Nikki Yanofsky
Matt Mays
Justin Nozuka
Justin Bieber

Chorus (including the soloists)
Arkells
Lamar Ashe
Broken Social Scene
Torquil Campbell
Canadian Tenors
Aion Clarke
City and Colour
Tom Cochrane
Jim Cuddy
Jim Creeggan
Kathleen Edwards
Dave Faber
Jessie Farrell
Colin James
Patrick Kordyback
Brandon Lehti
Colin MacDonald
Jay Malinowski
Stacey McKitrick
Suzie McNeil
Fefe Dobson
Stephan Moccio
Kevin Parent
Josh Ramsay
Red 1
Hayley Sales
James Shaw
Shiloh
Tim Baker



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1 comment:

Juan David said...

I got this video too when it came out. I've got a couple of Pierre Lapointe's albums, too.