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Donna Orchard

off-coloratura

About Me


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/19/2006
Band Website: jibcut.net/donnaorchard.html
Band Members: A Good Man Like You has Steve Idol playing absolutely everything; in the home-made demo of Northcross Bay I play autoharp, YamahaPSR16, and harmonica; in the classical pieces I'm accompanied by the wonderful Lori Neufeld on piano(Le Carafon) and brilliant Jonathan Picklyk on guitar(Jota)
Influences:
Jan deGaetani, Anna Moffo, Bidu Sayao, Edith Piaf, Lotte Lenya, Roy Orbison, Ray Davies, Emmylou Harris, Cerys Matthews, Maria Callas, Paul Linklater, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Daniel Johnston, Jan and Steve, Teresa Stratas, Edita Gruberova, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Bach, Purcell, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Brahms, Wolf, Wagner, R. Strauss, Satie, Weill, Dancers, Debussy, Poulenc, Cage, Crumb, Berio, Peter Maxwell Davies, R. Murray Shaeffer, Oskar Morawetz, Menotti, Gorecki, Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotton, Judee Sill, Marimba Ponies, and of course, His Royal Highness Farrokh Bulsara: King of the Musical Cosmos
Sounds Like: Florence Foster Jenkins crossed with Yoko Ono crossed with an obscene telephone caller
Record Label: www.jibcut.net
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Geniuses I love

(Aside from the 11 phenomenal musicians and 1 phenomenal writer I have in my friendspace) Daniel Johnston This Guy Marimba PoniesHinterland Who's Who...
Posted by Donna Orchard on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:50:00 PST

Popular Melodramatic Song (?!?!!!!)

So, it looks like MySpace has added some new genres to pick from for listing info!! And you may have noticed that they have "Melodramatic Popular Song"!! And how I decided to pick it to classify my ow...
Posted by Donna Orchard on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:30:00 PST

Introducing: The Laments!

Here's our new MySpace:www.myspace.com/thelaments
Posted by Donna Orchard on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:51:00 PST

Down-Home Down-Tempo

I dont know a bloody thing about Down-Tempo. It was easy to categorize my classical music since MySpace keeps things simple by not muddying things up with sub-genres like romantic, baroque, classical...
Posted by Donna Orchard on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:02:00 PST

TEN THINGS I LIKE ABOUT TORONTO

Or, I should say, ten things that stop me from waking up each morning wanting to run on down to the train station and blow my gigantic wad of rent money on a one-way ticket to my moms. If you live in ...
Posted by Donna Orchard on Wed, 31 May 2006 05:35:00 PST

Poor Pav!!!!

Poor Pav!!!! So sick he had to reschedule until October 25th... and I was so excited that he was going to sing on my birthday...  I actually could write a substantial blog on him, but I'll do tha...
Posted by Donna Orchard on Sat, 27 May 2006 12:40:00 PST

One New Song

Okay, I lied in my previous blog by saying I don't have any original material-- I have  one : Branch Song,  appropriately titled I think with my last name.  It's  really really bas...
Posted by Donna Orchard on Tue, 23 May 2006 05:20:00 PST

Slacker with a capital ACK

Apparently I just made it under the wire, birthwise from being grouped into gen x, I instead am a senior memember of gen y, and am apparently given credit for enjoying clean shiny malls with many recy...
Posted by Donna Orchard on Sat, 20 May 2006 02:46:00 PST

Meeeeee-owayer

Now I have 2 of the mp3s I wanted to upload but poor old My Space can't take them until 11:00pm.I'm worried the result won't warrant the anticipation...
Posted by Donna Orchard on Sat, 20 May 2006 10:51:00 PST

tech woes

I'm fumbling about trying to get something on here that people can listen to, but it'll be some time I think.... I swore my head off at SonicStage because for some zany reason it won't recognize my so...
Posted by Donna Orchard on Sat, 20 May 2006 08:11:00 PST