From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #302 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, January 11 2012 Volume 16 : Number 302 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Talitha MacKenzie [Was: Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide] [Paul Bl] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:00:42 -0800 From: Paul Blair Subject: Talitha MacKenzie [Was: Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide] On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:18 AM, The Ectophiles' Guide wrote: > Latest changes to the Ectophiles' Guide > > 08 January 2012 > New Guide entries added for: > ... > * Talitha MacKenzie > ... Now this is fascinating as I was just thinking to myself the other day, "I wonder what ever happened to Talitha MacKenzie?" So when I saw the ectoguide mailing I thought I'd missed something new mentioned on ecto. As far as I can see, however, there's still nothing mentioned past 1996. I got curious and found this on Wikipedia: "In 2004, MacKenzie flew to Hollywood to sing with Dessislava Stefanova and the Bulgarian Women's Choir on the soundtrack of the blockbuster film *Troy *. She used the proceeds to set up her own record label, Sonas Multimedia, in order to release her music in both CD and digital download formatb&. "In 2007, MacKenzie began to release digital download-only singles via Sonas Multimedia. The first of these was "Wind Chases The Sun" (released February 10, 2007) which was an original MacKenzie country ballad dealing with the plight of Native-American political prisoner Leonard Peltier . "Two more download singles were made available on March 25, 2007. "Family Tree" (described as a pop single) was another MacKenzie song written as a musical conversation between a father and daughter as they prepared for a summer vacation of research into the family roots. "Amazing Grace" was a more traditional work - a MacKenzie vocal arrangement of the popular hymnb&On April 26, 2007, MacKenzie released another download single *Indian Summer* - a fusion of ragtime and Old Timey music incorporating elements of country swingb& "On July 22, 2007, MacKenzie released her fourth album *Indian Summer* which celebrated the connection between Celtic and American cultures and explored her own roots on both sides of the Atlantic." According to her website, she is also working on a new album, *Global Sequence.* ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #302 ***************************