In honour of Pink Shirt Day on Wednesday, I’m featuring a group called Walk Off the Earth. Following the death of Amanda Todd in 2012, they collaborated with several other Canadian musicians to re-record the song True Colors by Cynthia Lauper, with proceeds donated to Kids Help Phone. They started on Youtube and features mainly covers, often using uncommon instruments or found sounds.
Some songs we might be listening to this week:
– True Colors by Cynthia Lauper (collaboration with other Canadians musicians to form Artists Against Bullying; inspired by increase in bullying/cyberbullying and Amanda Todd‘s death, with proceeds donated to Kids Help Phone)
– Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye (5 people playing 1 guitar!)
– O Canada (not your typical picnic in the park!)
– Shape of You by Ed Sheeran (boomwhackers, kalimba, pop tubes, container of dried pasta, doing splits to play cymbals)
– Hello by Adele (whirly tubes, boomwhackers, bells, fly zippers, tap dancing, cymbal high kick)
– Shake It Off by Taylor Swift (kazoo, shakers, ukuleles, cajon)
– Savage Love by Jason Derulo & Jawsh 685 (ukulele tossing, toy piano, steel tongue drum, squeaky horns)
– Old Town Road by Lil Nas X (hand bells, mug, bowls of coins & guitar picks)
– Cheerleader by OMI (inside their tour bus)
– A History of The Beatles 1962-70 (20 songs in 7 minutes)