TORONTO – CBC Music is planning to take its annual celebration of music education to new heights thanks to some help from Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
Hadfield, who is also an accomplished musician and songwriter, will team up with Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies fame to write and premiere a brand new song in time for Music Monday 2013. Music Monday is celebrated on the first Monday of May each year as students and teachers take their music programs outdoors and into their communities, performing the same song at the exact same time.
Over the coming months, Hadfield and Robertson will craft music and lyrics for the official song, with Hadfield in space aboard the International Space Station and Robertson here on Earth. CBC Music will produce a series of videos of the collaboration progress, giving music students and fans an inside perspective on their songwriting partnership as it unfolds.
The finished song will debut on all platforms on CBC (CBC Radio One and 2, CBC TV and cbcmusic.ca) in 2013, and will be performed by hundreds of thousands of students across Canada on Music Monday, which is slated for May 6, 2013.
