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2004 Nostalgie

May 21, 2013 by snapshotsandneedledrops

I’m thinking it’s a sign, that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images and when we kiss they’re perfectly aligned. Inspired by Zach Braff’s latest Kickstarter campaign, I got cozy and watched Garden State this weekend. The soundtrack transported me back to my early high school days, exploring indie music for the first time. Coldplay, Andrew Murdoch, The Shins and most notably– Iron & Wine’s cover of “Such Great Heights.” Covers are strange, 98% of them don’t come close […]

Categories: Alternative, Cover, Covers, Folk, Indie, Pop, Strings • Tags: alternative, Australia, balloons, Canberra, cover, covers, festival, folk, Garden State, indie, joy kills sorrow, music, photography, Zach Braff

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Australian graffiti black and white man silhouetted Canberra

Dancing in the Dark

February 5, 2013 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Some of my first memories involve my matinee performances of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Showcased daily from our living room. I adored that soundtrack. I would clear off all the laundry from a wooden chest behind the couch, climb up, dance and sing out all the lyrics– including the twenty-nine shades, repeated twice so it sounds endless, listed in his “coat of many colours.” If I really wanted to pull out a particularly show-stopping performance I would wear […]

Categories: Acoustic, Alternative, British, Cover, Covers, Folk, French, Indie, Lo-fi, singer-songwriter, Soul, Soundtrack • Tags: Acoustic, alternative, Australia, Ben Howard, British, Bruce Springsteen, childhood, contemporary, cover, covers, dance, entertainment, folk, french, indie, lo-fi, Matt Luck, memories, modern, music, new, performance, photography, photos, singer-songwriter, soul, soundtrack, swimming, travel, Yael Naim

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Child plays around art sculptures, Australian National Gallery

Walk Off the Earth

January 21, 2013 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Playing around the installations in the Sculpture Garden of the National Gallery of Australia. Walk Off the Earth is a Canadian group that gained viral notoriety from their amazing cover of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” performed with their five members playing on one guitar. Which at the moment has nearly 145,000,000 views on YouTube. Indeed the band does outstanding covers of many artists. A couple weeks ago I featured them on the Snapshots and Needle Drops’ Facebook Page […]

Categories: Alternative, Canadian, Covers, Folk, Indie • Tags: alternative, art, Australia, Canadian, covers, entertainment, folk, indie, music, photography, sculpture

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Cirque du soleil acrobats perform in Place des Arts, Montreal

Cirque du Suprise

December 30, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Reason number 129 to love Montréal: sporadic street performances by Cirque du Soleil. This is Birdy. You might have heard her wonderful cover of Bon Iver’s Skinny Love earlier this year. If you like the song, be sure to check out “Shelter” as well. “People Help the People” by Birdy

Categories: Covers, Folk, Rock, Soul • Tags: Bon Iver, cirque du soleil, cirque soleil, folk, Montreal, music, photography, photos, street performances

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Banister decorated for Christmas

Carol of the Bells

December 24, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Merry Christmas Eve Tonight I’m sharing a favourite Christmas song from my childhood. I used to dramatically dance to the following piece in our living room. “Carol of the Bells” by David Foster And if you’re in any doubt about the passion of this piece, you can always double check with Mr. Schrute.

Categories: 20th Century Classical, Canadian, Classical, Covers, Instrumental, Symphonic, World • Tags: Christmas, Christmas Eve, classical, David Foster, instrumental, music, photography, photos

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Looking through a snowy window at Montreal

“Worse than….”

November 23, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Last night I arrived home from my 10 day trip in Paris and Scotland. It turns out I was just in time! I woke up at 6:30 this morning to find it had been snowing all night. It’s a magical day, that first day of snow. The world is all of sudden a completely different landscape- granted it is a landscape you’ll be tired of in five months- but for now, coupled with the newly strung Christmas lights around the […]

Categories: Covers, Dance, Pop, Soundtrack • Tags: bakewells, Canada, dance, girls aloud, jump, Love Actually, Montreal, music, photography, pop, snow, Soundtracks, winter

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Carved pumpkins, wolf, jack-o-latern, Liverpool, LFC

Happy 90s Halloween

October 31, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

My close friends would be able to tell you that Halloween is not a favourite holiday of mine. Halloween was so much better in the 90s when I was a kid. The costume barely mattered because you had to put a coat on anyway and you got to run around your neighbourhood with friends getting candy. As an added bonus, I grew up in a small town, so every time my friends and I went to a house that we […]

Categories: 90s, Covers, Pop, Rock, Soundtrack • Tags: 90s, Canada, carved pumpkins, covers, halloween, jack-o-lanterns, LFC, Liverpool Football Club, memories, music, photography, pop, pumpkins, Rock, Soundtracks, Sugar Ray, wolf

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Gaia by Guy Liberté, photos from space in Montreal's Place des Arts

Commuting Home

October 2, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

So when you commute home from your job at 6:30am, do you get to bike through beautiful aerial shots? At the moment Montreal’s Promenade des Artistes is adorned with sixty spectacular photographs of earth and its waterways. They were taken by space tourist Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil, during his 2009 trip to the International Space Station. The images can also be found in his coffee table book Gaia. Proceeds from Gaia go towards his One Drop Foundation which supports […]

Categories: Acoustic, Alternative, Covers, Folk, Indie • Tags: Acoustic, alternative, beauty, covers, folk, indie, Montreal, music, night, photography, space

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Dannish train platform, black and white photo

Closing Jazz Fest

July 5, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

The Love Shack is a little ole place where 100,000 people can get together. Last night my friends and I went to the closing concerts of the 2011 Montreal International Jazz Festival. On the main stage the B-52s were rocking it like it was 1989. The place was a mad house. Apparently by the time the 80s band graced the stage over 100,000 people had crowded into Place-des-Arts. After paying our respects to the B-52s by grooving to their tunes […]

Categories: Covers, Funk, Jazz, R&B, Rock, Soul • Tags: Black and White, covers, Denmark, festivals, funk, jazz, Montreal, music, photography, R&B, Rock, soul, summer

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