Long Reach (November 3, 2005) – Carolyn Murray, a retired teacher who lives on the Kingston Peninsula, has released her first CD, Peninsula Child, Songs of the Kingston Peninsula.

During her years as music teacher at Macdonald Consolidated School in Kingston, Mrs. Murray constantly wrote and arranged songs for her choirs and ukulele groups.  She wrote the music for In Days Before Ours, a historical musical written especially for New Brunswick’s Bicentennial celebrations, and presented by the students of Macdonald in 1984.  The same year, she and her daughter Stephanie wrote a Christmas Cantata, Everybody Loves A Baby, which won the Kingston Peninsula Bicentennial Prize.  During a move to Charlotte County in the mid-90’s, Mrs. Murray continued to write for her school and church choirs.  Absent Friends, a song written especially for the graduating class of St. Stephen High School, was featured on a broadcast by the CBC.   Mrs. Murray’s Ode to the Kingston Peninsula has been a fixture at concerts and celebrations on the peninsula for many years. 

From her many compositions, she has chosen ten, all with a Kingston Peninsula theme.   She accompanies herself at the piano and sings her own harmonies.  Her daughter Stephanie Mainville, who herself released a CD of Celtic/Christian music earlier this year, joins her mother on violin for six of the ten cuts.

A web site has been set up, http://www.carolynmurraymusic.com, where the CD is available, in addition to outlets on the Kingston Peninsula.

The CD Launch will be at St. Bridget’s Hall in Chapel Grove on Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 7:30pm.  Special Guests include Father Clark McAulay and Stephanie Mainville.

For more information, contact Carolyn Murray 763-2002

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