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Rosemary with her guitar
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 Short Biography
Some Past Performances - also see Schedule
For Bookings please contact me
Discography
Creative Longer Biography (Remember I'm a writer)
Short Biography
I may be a bit of a late bloomer when it comes to the performance world but I have been singing since the age of four when I took some lessons and sang for a benefit in London, England. I put singing on the back burner until I got my first guitar at age 18. Since then I have sung with choirs and performed solo. That's forty years ago! My how time flies. But during those forty years, while continuing a career as a designer and writer (among some of my professions), I have sung for special events, concerts, fairs, festivals, churches, hospice and now the unique Mediumship and Music concerts. Audiences evidently have loved my voice and for years have told me I should be making recordings and appearing on television. Others tell me I should be performing more for children. I guess I never took all this too seriously as I kept on being a writer. Now I'm taking it seriously! But of course, keeping in mind it should be fun to follow your dreams! Feedback from audience members and reviewers about my singing can be seen on the Reviews page. The following is a summary of my performing career to date.
Some Past Performances
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| Children's Festival, Campbell River, 1994 |
(Psychic) Mediumship & Music - Talking & Singing with Heaven: Quadra Island, BC (2009); Calgary First Spiritualist Church - Alberta (2009); Spiritualist Society of Burlington - Ontario (2009); Church of Universal Love - North York, Ontario (2009); Lighthouse Centre - Cloverdale, BC (2009); Cowichan Valley Spiritualist Centre of Light and Healing (2008, 2009); International Spiritualist Alliance, New Westminster (2006 & 2007); Brotherhood Spiritualist Church, New Wesminster (2006); Inner Garden Balance Point On-Line Chapel, Surrey (2007, 2008); Celebration Centre, Penticton (2006); Grand Forks, BC (2004-2006); and Port Hardy, BC (2008). House Concerts - public and private on Vancouver Island (2008-2009).
Music as Healer workshops or concerts for Hospice (1999-2007): Shushwap Hospice Convention; Retreat for Chilliwack Hospice Society; Kootenay Region; Fort Nelson; Boundary Hospice for Grand Forks, Rock Creek, Midway, Castlegar, BC.
"One Seed" Tours of schools in British Columbia (2002-2009) – Kootenays, Okanagan, Boundary, Peace District, Northern BC, Vancouver Island.
Theatre Concerts and Shows
Port Hardy Literacy Fair, Port Hardy, BC 2008
** Music in the Park, Grand Forks, BC 2004-2005
Festival of Freedom at the Forks, Grand Forks, BC 2003 and 2004
** Community Peace Concert, GFSS Auditorium, Grand Forks BC 2003
** "Over the Rainbow", Port Theatre, Nanaimo BC October 1999
** "Rosemary & Friends", Sid Williams Theatre, Courtenay March 18th 1995
** "Love Songs", Tidemark Theatre, Campbell River February 11th 1995
** "Rosemary & Friends", Tidemark Theatre, Campbell River September 1994
"Nunsense", role of Sister Leo, Rivercity Players Spring, 1993
** Community Concert, Tidemark Theatre Fall, 1992
** Healing Concert with Ann Mortifee, Tidemark Theatre April 1992
(** = Produced, promoted, and performed.)
Coffee Houses & Concerts, Quadra Island 1992-1995; Lansdowne, Ontario 1978-81
Touch the Sky - Toronto OISE Auditorium with Duke Redbird 1972
Weddings and Celebration of Life Ceremonies, BC and Ontario
Performance for seniors, all the time.
Television Shows
For CRTV-10 Campbell River (producer and host):
“Spotlight” - bi-weekly show for the Tidemark Theatre to promote shows and activities
“Campbell River Unlimited” - bi-weekly live phone-in show on Healthy Community issues
“Opening Doors, Keys to Health and Happiness” - a weekly series on issues of health, conventional and alternative.
Discography
Rosemary sings... - Demo CD - June 1998
Homemade with Rosemary - CD released December 2001
"One Seed"  – CD released September 2002
Me and My Guitar - CD released summer 2007
Kids Stuff - CD released Summer 2007
Creative Long Biography
My first ever public performance was at the tender age of four singing “Animal Crackers” for a London orphanage benefit. In no way did I resemble curly-top Shirley Temple – my hair is naturally dead straight – in addition I believe I got ushered off the stage before I finished because I wouldn’t face the audience – I was rebelling because I wanted to sing “Teddy Bear’s Picnic”. I have been singing for audiences large and small ever since, wherever I happen to be.
Vocal training
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| Rosemary singing for Commander Connell and his guests, summer 1968. Tips were very good that night. |
I took a few vocal lessons when I was four, sang in a school choir until I was eleven and then stopped singing after a stern matronly teacher, who must have been having a bad day, told me I didn’t have a voice. I rather took that to heart until I was about 18 and got a guitar for $25, thanks to Jane. I learned a whole bunch of songs to sing for guests at Allen’s Restaurant, run by Jane’s mum and dad. The chicken-house restaurant was situated on a Canadian island in the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River, the boating playground off New York State. (Never tasted chicken like that since – it was delicious.) Oh, the stories I could tell!
Guests were often known to whisper in my ear, “You gonna sing ‘The Shrimp’ tonight?” My picking up the guitar was a guaranteed boost to tips for all the waitresses on those evenings, and an excellent way for me to get out of washing dishes – by hand. Except for one night when Joan Crawford’s daughter came for dinner; I was so nervous I hid in the woods out back. I had lots of dishes to wash that night.
Glo Ferrer - vocal coach
At age 21, after my often-swollen tonsils were removed, I was invited to take singing lessons from Glo Ferrer in Toronto. I was in my fourth year at Ryerson at the time, taking interior design, so I didn’t take the singing too seriously – I mean, wasn’t I supposed to be an interior designer? So when Glo sent me off to audition for Godspell (1972) I guess I really didn’t have my heart in it. I was too shy, standing beside all those professionals, rather those who became professionals, like Martin Short and Gilda Radner.
All the while I was writing strange poetry, and sensing things far beyond my ken. I was writing about the bud on a tree that comes time by time, life by life (reincarnation). I was designing cities in different dimension. I had always sensed things, known things, and didn't know why. It wasn't until my grandmother suggested I go see a medium while I was in London (UK) did it all start to unfold for me. A few years later Cockney Joe Benjamin (one of the UK's top mediums of the time) told me I was psychic. So that was what it was all about.
So over the last 25 years the singing has developed, confidence has grown, and the gifts of mediumship have begun to flourish. The voice has mellowed and matured, and I do feel more comfortable on stage even though I may trip and get tied up in cables.
Performing now takes on several avenues: for children, One Seed presentations, casual dinner music, full healing concerts, Music as Healer workshops and presentations, and the new adventure - Mediumship & Music - Talking and Singing with Heaven.
Awards
I don’t have any awards or anything, just lots of thank you cards and smiles, and warm handshakes. Knowing that someone has been touched by my singing and performance is award enough.
For Bookings - For bookings, please contact me for information.
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