11-21-2007, 12:09 PM
I just came across this article. I thought it might be appropriate to post here. 
I might have to look for one of these this weekend.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/lifestyle.a...&zoneid=14
I might have to look for one of these this weekend.http://bangornews.com/news/t/lifestyle.a...&zoneid=14
Quote:
Maine talent shines on holiday CD
By Dale McGarrigle
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - Bangor Daily News
The holiday season is a time of traditions, both new and old.
For the past 20 years, "The "Maine Christmas Song," as sung by Malinda Liberty, has become one of those new traditions.
In celebration of those two decades, that song’s writer, Con Fullam of Saco, has produced an album of holiday songs featuring many of Maine’s best-known performers.
On "Christmas in Maine" are Grammy winners Noel Paul Stookey and Paul Sullivan, Schooner Fare, Dave Mallett, The Windham Chamber Singers, Don Campbell, The Dave Rowe Trio, Anne Dodson, Joan Kennedy, Dan Merrill and Melanie Dorice Saucier. The album also contains Liberty’s "Maine Christmas Song," complete with an introductory poem written by Fullam and read by the late Gary Merrill.
Fullam started organizing the album in April, calling performers he had met through his many years as a multimedia writer and producer. "Everyone I called is on there," he noted.
Some of the songs come from previously recorded albums, others were recorded specifically for this project and a couple were from a similar compilation released 15 years ago, Fullam explained.
A major portion of the CD sales will go toward the Maine Credit Union League’s "Ending Hunger in Maine" campaign, which was chosen after Fullam sat on the board of the Maine Children’s Cancer Walk with Jon Paradise of the MCUL. "I thought that they would be a great partner for this," Fullam said.
"The Maine Christmas Song" had its roots in a whimsical report by the late WCSH broadcaster Bob Elliot on the same old Christmas music that gets played year after year.
While preparing that report, Elliot contacted his friend Fullam about writing a Christmas song for the state of Maine.
"I told him to contact me the next August, so we’d have time to write and produce it," Fullam recalled. "Then he told me he needed it tomorrow, so they could record a quick demo."
This urgency may have turned out to be a part of the song’s success.
"It wasn’t something I tried desperately to do," Fullam said. "It came very naturally. I didn’t have the time to think about it. I wrote about my childhood in Sidney, Maine. I lost my father when I was 5, leaving my mother to fend for three kids and a 250-acre farm, and the community all pitched in to help us out. I put those memories down in a way that connected to people."
"Christmas in Maine" is available at all Maine Credit Union locations throughout the state as well as all Bull Moose and Mr. Paperback stores and select gift stores in Maine.
By Dale McGarrigle
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - Bangor Daily News
The holiday season is a time of traditions, both new and old.
For the past 20 years, "The "Maine Christmas Song," as sung by Malinda Liberty, has become one of those new traditions.
In celebration of those two decades, that song’s writer, Con Fullam of Saco, has produced an album of holiday songs featuring many of Maine’s best-known performers.
On "Christmas in Maine" are Grammy winners Noel Paul Stookey and Paul Sullivan, Schooner Fare, Dave Mallett, The Windham Chamber Singers, Don Campbell, The Dave Rowe Trio, Anne Dodson, Joan Kennedy, Dan Merrill and Melanie Dorice Saucier. The album also contains Liberty’s "Maine Christmas Song," complete with an introductory poem written by Fullam and read by the late Gary Merrill.
Fullam started organizing the album in April, calling performers he had met through his many years as a multimedia writer and producer. "Everyone I called is on there," he noted.
Some of the songs come from previously recorded albums, others were recorded specifically for this project and a couple were from a similar compilation released 15 years ago, Fullam explained.
A major portion of the CD sales will go toward the Maine Credit Union League’s "Ending Hunger in Maine" campaign, which was chosen after Fullam sat on the board of the Maine Children’s Cancer Walk with Jon Paradise of the MCUL. "I thought that they would be a great partner for this," Fullam said.
"The Maine Christmas Song" had its roots in a whimsical report by the late WCSH broadcaster Bob Elliot on the same old Christmas music that gets played year after year.
While preparing that report, Elliot contacted his friend Fullam about writing a Christmas song for the state of Maine.
"I told him to contact me the next August, so we’d have time to write and produce it," Fullam recalled. "Then he told me he needed it tomorrow, so they could record a quick demo."
This urgency may have turned out to be a part of the song’s success.
"It wasn’t something I tried desperately to do," Fullam said. "It came very naturally. I didn’t have the time to think about it. I wrote about my childhood in Sidney, Maine. I lost my father when I was 5, leaving my mother to fend for three kids and a 250-acre farm, and the community all pitched in to help us out. I put those memories down in a way that connected to people."
"Christmas in Maine" is available at all Maine Credit Union locations throughout the state as well as all Bull Moose and Mr. Paperback stores and select gift stores in Maine.
