November 14th, 2013

Karine posted this way earlier, but I completely forget about it – Sarah will receive a honorary degree during the fall convocation on 19 and 20 November. Read the full articles right here.

Coming off of Grammy Awards for her hits Building a Mystery (1997) and I Will Remember You (1999), no star in the music industry shone brighter than Halifax, Nova Scotia-born artist Sarah McLachlan. But her influence on the music industry runs deeper than a string of hits and 14 albums since 1988 that have sold some 40 million copies worldwide. McLachlan is the founder of Lilith Fair, the historic all-women concert tour that raised more than $10 million for national and local women’s organizations and elevated the profile of many female artists. Realizing that many children had little or no access to music, McLachlan founded the Sarah McLachlan School of Music, an after-school free music education program for underserved and at-risk children from low-income families in her longtime home of Vancouver. Beyond music, McLachlan has used her international profile to raise millions of dollars for AIDS sufferers, and has put her name and much of her philanthropic effort behind a number of animal-welfare groups. She was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 1999. Sarah McLachlan will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree Nov. 20 at 10 a.m.

I also got two articles about the Alberta Ballet, this one right here and this one.

“I know what the song is about and it’s very emotionally charged for me, and it was just this pained love and loss playing out on their faces and bodies, and I started bawling,” she remembers of the powerful pas de deux, speaking to the Straight from her West Vancouver home. “And there was this room full of people watching me reacting and I’m trying to suck it up.”