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LATEST NEWS Carmel recently made a quick trip to Melbourne in May to sing at her friend George's birthday party. Some years ago while traveling around WA he and his wife Mary bought one of Carmel's recordings - 'Songs of the West' from a tourist bureau at Wave Rock, Hyden. They continued to play it for the rest of their trip. They have become great friends with Carmel and are her No 1 fans in Melbourne.
Singing at George's
A new music resource entitled ‘Out of This World’ is now available. It is an exciting collection of 16 catchy original songs that were composed to entertain and educate children of our history and heritage, health, precious resources, unique fauna, environment and citizenship/values. The pack includes a double disc - Vocal CD and an instrumental (backing) CD and a Teacher's Manual containing music, guitar chords, harmony lines, percussion parts and suggestions for use. All songs encourage active participation. Carmel has previously produced 5 CD’s including ‘Precious Water’ for the Western Australian Water Corporation to educate children on the value of water in their ‘Waterwise’ schools program. She is regularly commissioned to compose songs for schools and special events. Songs include:
Water More Precious than Gold,
C. Y. O’Connor I Wish You Were Here, Respect,
Numbat, We have been investigating space over the term so the obvious topic for our assembly was space. As soon as the children heard 'Out of This world' they voted unanimously to use it. It is a beautiful song which was easy both in tune and words for the children to pick up and run with. if I had only one sentence to describe my feelings as they performed your song I would have to say they were 'Out of This World'. Gail Westlund - Woodlands Primary School Carmel is heading to the Gold Coast in July to present a workshop for teachers entitled: Out of This World - A New Music Resource. Educational songs to compliment primary school curriculum and energize learning activities. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Carmel's recent CD 'Calling My Name' a tribute to St Mary MacKillop is a much requested album with requests and re-orders coming from all around Australia. It comes out of an admiration for what she did and what she stood for, Carmel said. The beautiful didgeridoo playing on the track comes from James Webb. For more information please email carmel@carmelcharlton.com
_______________________________________________ Other CD's by Carmel Whispers on The Wind
The beautiful video clip of Horses Coming Home 'Horses Coming Home' on youtube is a moving tribute to the soldiers and horses of WW1. In 1914 a small boy at Bakers Hill saw soldiers and horses going by train to Albany, Western Australia. The convoys took 160,000 horses to the first World War. Only one returned. Due to quarantine regulations they were either put down or left behind. That boy was Frank Smith. He later gave me his poem that I set to music. The footage is courtesy of the Australian War Museum in Canberra.
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