Fun Moments With George Littlechild: Part 2

2022

Learn if George Littlechild prefers to sing or dance, his favourite music artist and more! You can see his exhibition ‘Here I am-can you see Me?’ at the AGA now, sponsored by Capital Power.Learn if George Littlechild prefers to sing or dance, his favourite music artist and more! You can see his exhibition ‘Here I am-can you see Me?’ at the AGA now, sponsored by Capital Power. …

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well i i’m a club i have a really good

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story growing up here in edmonton i was

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sick i’m a 60s scoop survivor so it’s

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raised in white foster care in the dutch

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canadian community

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and actually a lot of my life was just

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over here down the street

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i went to a church just down the street

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here on 96th street and there was seven

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christian reformed churches in edmonton

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so our church was first and then there

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was a second

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christian form church and so they had

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choir classes

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and i remember clearly so mom had

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enrolled me for choir

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and the same day of the choir one of my

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friends at the school had his birthday

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party and i remember going to this

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birthday party and being so i went crazy

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i like had three hot dogs i had so much

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food and nobody was telling us not to

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and so i got to the choir practice

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oh my god so we’re on stage and she

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tells us that this week you know we

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would sing and then next week she would

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deliver who was going to be in the choir

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or who wasn’t

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and

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so anyway

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in dutch if you translate the word to

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english it means

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he gave over well i threw up all over

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his stage

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from eating way too much of the birthday

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party right

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so

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we came the next week and then she was

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telling the kids

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and then she mentioned my name and she

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said well you’re going to be cut from

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the choir

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because your voice is too deep and i’m

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sure who knows why was because who knows

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because i threw up on her stage is it

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because she didn’t like uh indigenous

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kids

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why was i cut but it scarred me for

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years and years and years and i still

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at 63 still lament on why haven’t i ever

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been able to sing publicly because i

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actually i don’t think my work voice is

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that bad

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um and so one thing i’m gonna do in the

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next few months i was power walking the

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other day and there’s this lady and i

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looked and it said voice lessons on her

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gate and i’m gonna call well i think

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it’s a lady call this number and i’m

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gonna just say i have huge fear around

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publicly singing can you help he’ll heal

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me because i would love to sing in

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public

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you know but i can’t because of this

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whole experience so one thing i do love

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doing is singing i sing a lot

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i’m always singing at home in the car

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but to sing in front of you two it’s not

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gonna happen

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well if you think about the longevity of

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what i’ve lived i mean someone who i

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really

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like right now can i say that i love the

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weekend i love the weekend so that’s

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someone current but you know like think

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about my ear i was at the tail end of

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the hippie era so joanie mitchell

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taylor carol king al green uh lou rawls

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i like r b

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favorite how can you have a favorite and

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then if you think about indigenous music

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i love buffy st marie have had the great

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fortune of being at three of her

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concerts met her a few times

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so yeah that’s kind of where i’m at r b

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um

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folk and some contemporary i really like

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no rock and roll though

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