As the tens and tens of Grateful We’re Not Dead fans are aware, the band has been involved in the fund raising initiative promoted by Mufindi Orphans. Last summer Grateful We’re Not Dead entertained at a fundraiser held on August 14 in Manotick, Ontario. Over $8,000 was raised at that event.
A Shocking Revelation!!!
Just a quick post to point you to a shocking revelation concerning Grateful We’re Not Dead. In fact, it is so disturbing to the eyes that we had to publish the information on a different site. If you feel you can face the truth, check it out.
But be afraid, be very afraid!!!
You have been warned!!!
Season’s Greetings
Grateful We’re Not Dead would like to take a moment to wish everyone all the best for the festive season. We would also like to thank you for the support you have given the band’s fund raising efforts during 2010 for our favourite charitable causes. We hope to see you frequently during 2011.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
from Al, Don, Gord and Bruce
Grateful We’re Not Dead
from Al, Don, Gord and Bruce
Grateful We’re Not Dead
P.S. Wouldn’t you like to find one of those boys wrapped up under your Christmas tree?
Updating The Blog… Finally!
The original Grateful We’re Not Dead blog was started in 2007 on Google’s Blogger platform and has been maintained there since then. Because of the number of photos and articles that have been posted concerning band over the last 3+ years, we intend to continue to use that as out main blog concerning the band’s activities. As a result, blog articles here will sometime point to the original blog for band updates.
This being said, check out Stop And Smell The Flowers, an update of Grateful We’re Not Dead activities for the past five months.
Mayor Wendy LeBlanc and Grateful We're Not Dead
It’s Nice To Be Appreciated
On Thursday, September 23, Grateful We’re Not Dead performed in the auditorium of the Ottawa Main Library. The occasion was a presentation of the National Film Board of Canada film The Peackeepers. This event was part of the 4th Annual Ottawa Peace Festival. Our participation was simply to provide some musical entertainment while the audience arrived and during the intermission after the film and before the question period.
Now it takes a bit of time to set up and tear down the equipment for any performance. It can seem a bit much when we’re only going to do a few instrumentals and songs but it does give the band exposure. So we usually agree to do these short gigs.
The nice thing about this event was the amount of feedback we received over the next few days. So just to toot our own horn, I decided to print some of it here.
- “I was impressed with the musical act. Too bad the time was so short. I’d hoped to have the chance to tell these gentlemen how much I liked what they presented, especially that first song. – Mary-Sue H.”
- “I fully agree with you that Grateful We’re not Dead were superb. – Bill B.”
- “I found your website and put the link on my FB page and a comment on your FB page. Your renditions reminded me of the mature Johnny Cash (maybe partly because of the black hats!) but there’s extra power in those decades of life experience that add depth to how a song is interpreted. Great stuff guys.”
- “I second Bill in thanking … Gord for a superb and professional performance. … the National Secretary of RCMO Veterans Association took Gord’s email and will be contacting him about an RCMP event. – Iman”
I guess we’re doing something right.
Don
Progress Being Made
I’m making progress on the new Grateful We’re Not Dead website faster than I anticipated. In the process I’m also getting a better handle on using WordPress 3.0 to develop a website. It seems that the new version is incorporating more content management capabilities. I normally use Drupal or Joomla as Content Management Systems for website seeing as my days of hand coding in HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc have been put behind me, so employing WordPress as a CMS has been interesting to say the least.
If you see any glaring errors in the site please feel free to contact me at gratefulwerenotdead@gmail.com.
If your interested in having Grateful We’re Not Dead perform for your charity, fundraiser, private party, etc you can contact us at the same email address.
Don
Welcome To Our New Home
Welcome to the new, revised home of Grateful We’re Not Dead. Over the next few weeks we’ll be implementing a lot of new features including mp3 files, videos, lyrics, etc.
If you arrived here via a link in a search engine and could not find the page you expected to land on that is because all of the old pages have been deleted and new pages will be taking their place.
We hope you’ll drop by on a regular basis to see what we’re up to.
You have a good day now, ya hear.
Don
