Christie Bradley Celebration of Life slideshow production notes
With the help of family and friends, I gathered together a lot of great photos to produce this slideshow celebrating the life of my sister Christie Bradley. The photos include family, friends and work colleagues. I was fortunate enough to have music to accompany it I had already composed that was just right for the occasion. You can read the words of the following songs on the Lyric page of this website if interested.
“AWAKENING”
This is a short interlude that I wrote when our father, Glenn Houle, died a few years ago. I actually dreamed it and woke up crying. I immediately rolled out of bed – grabbed a guitar to play the chords and melody so I wouldn’t forget.
“IN NAME ONLY”
I wrote this song several years ago and recorded it with my old recording band The Local Group at my old studio MusicAmaze. I still need to record the vocals, so I mixed an instrumental version for this slideshow. The passing of Christie has renewed my sense of urgency to finish, mix and release my large back catalogue of songs.
“SUN”
I wrote this song a few years ago about alternative energy sources – how Mother Earth and forces of nature could provide us with all that we need. It would be nearly free and clean – if we would just overcome our human greed and shortsightedness. The environment was always a very important issue to Christie. I had already recorded the acoustic guitars, so I finished everything else and mixed it for this event.
I hope you enjoy the slideshow which I wanted to be be a special tribute to a very special person….thanks, Curt