Besides missing my home, I’ve really been missing singing professionally and I thought, ‘if I am going to start anywhere again it’s going to be on P.E.I.’ ” musicians Todd MacLean and Cynthia MacLeod are backing up her first professional show in eight years. Something that is not a surprise is her father, Charlottetown Festival alumni Danny Costain, is associate producer for the show. Of course there’s Gene MacLellan, so I’ll sing ‘Snowbird’,” says MacLean, who wants to keep the rest of the program a surprise. “Then we’ll show a brief film about each of the artists we’re celebrating and sing a song by each one. It starts with a video about the brief history of Atlantic Canada, compiled by filmmaker Jason Rogerson. It was also one way to get me back home,” says MacLean, who instantly came up with a complete set list.Ī year later, her brainstorming has resulted in Atlantic Blue, a show that hits the boards of Harmony House Theatre in Hunter River on July 23 and 24. “I wasn’t feeling like writing anything new. Then an idea for a new show that celebrated East Coast songwriters popped into her head. singer-songwriter Lennie Gallant, telling her about the wonderful time he was having back home, spending the days at the beach with his daughter and his nights performing his show, “Searching For Abegweit: The Island Songs & Stories of Lennie Gallant”.įor a second, she felt envious. One day last summer she got a phone call from P.E.I. So when I’m missing P.E.I., I listen to music from home and I call my Nanna,” says MacLean, a resident of B.C.’s Salt Spring Island. I go straight to the heart of the feeling. “When I’m grieving about something, I listen to sad songs. Tara MacLean knows all about homesickness.Īfter years of living on the West Coast, where she and her husband, Ted, have been raising their three children, the singer-songwriter has been thinking about P.E.I.
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