The 2006-2007 Saint Patrick Regional Secondary Chamber Choir Men singing Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers during a cultural exchange with students from Edogawa Highschool Students on October 26, 2006 in Vancouver, BC.
You guys rock! Jerrperez, ignore anyone who speaks ill of your choir. I have been in music for quite some time and your choir is one of the best high school choirs I have ever heard (even better than most university choirs as well). I hope all of you continue to sing, even if you choose something else for a career. You're all very talented.
14 years on and I still watch this. A friend started singing it canoeing by Atikokan, Ontario, in 2007. I found your choir's version shortly after. Now I'm in Antarctica, thinking about exploration and what it all meant, what it still means, how we're all inexorably tied to the land and each other, how context changes. Thanks for posting this, and even more, thank you for singing.
Thank you all for the kind words! And for the negative comments, no offense taken - life’s too short. I remember singing it like it was just yesterday. Second from the right! The cantor is Tony Araujo - complete legend. At the time he was actual our choral instructor that taught all the gents in that video (and 1000s more) everything they know about singing.
Jean Paul Sartre said that novels are how the intellectuals of one culture communicate with another culture. I think the same is true with music. All these guys understand this song!
My father used to sing this song (Among many other good ol folkie tunes) to my little brother and I as we were going to sleep. sounds great to hear this again, sends chills throuhg my spine
Well done. And on an unrelated note - Hakodate is the twin city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. I visited Honshu and Kyushu in 2016 but hope some day to visit Hokkaido.
I'm often disappointed by covers, too, but this one is grand! There are great original harmonies and real power and emotion in their delivery....superb guys, keep it up!
great job! you guys sounded great and it is a tribute to the late Stan Rogers. it is a testament to one of Canada's best song writers. i liked your interpretation and arrangement of the song. Vocally, a song much more challenging than what it may appear, you guys made it look easy! a very moving rendition.
I sing in two choirs, one is A Capella, so I can appreciate the difficulty of this piece. I googled it because my community choir is working on an arrangement of this. Great job guys!
This is MAGNIFICENT!!! It's the best version on youtube. I don't know where these young men are from, but they do a terrific job. It's a great song and they do a wonderful job of it. My favorite is still George Cavanaugh's (with the Browne Sisters) but that isn't on youtube. This is great! Thank you.
Found this while searching for a Due South Vid(the song appears at the very end of the last ep). This is an excellent performance, especially given the acoustics in what I guess is a school gym, and the fact that they had to borrow a cantor who seemed more of a 'folkie' than a chorister.
I have always heard his music refered to as Folk music. But I know how you are BlackAdder6, my dad would sing such songs, except one that he sang a lot of was Barrets privateers. Always good to hear these songs again.
Never seen so many young japanese men singing so beautifully, and doing such incredible justice to a canadian folk classic. Edogawa highschool should be bursting with pride.
Oh wow! I am finishing one of my last papers for a History Honours degree, and its on the northwest passage. I took a break while deciding whether to hyphenate 'northwest' or not, and while browsing the web i saw this video and was swept away with emotion by your singing. Keep it up!
Wow, guys. great work. I don't tend to care much for Stan Rogers covers as it's hard to beat the original, but this is beautiful. I really like the last run through the chorus.
