It's like having a new baby and not getting to show anybody,” he said. “I've had actually a lot of shows particularly around Saskatchewan in the last couple of weeks and I've been itching to sing this song. Get the CTV News app for Saskatchewan breaking news alerts and top stories.He said it has been a struggle to keep the song a secret. While at the same time, it's his voice throwing out a challenge to all people.” “I am really excited about what I came up with for this tune because it's a song, in a way, that I would imagine is his voice talking to himself in his head.
“One thing I think we all realize at some point in time is we all really should be working to leave this place a little better than what we found,” he added.Īnd that become the title of the song: Better Than What We Found, he said. “However, the more I thought about this, I realized there's something we all have in common, whether you're a teacher, a labourer, a dentist, a farmer, or a lawyer, whatever, as we go about our jobs.” What I started to realize is that we kind of look at people like the monarchy as people who are so different than us,” he explained. “So I had that burbling through my mind, as well as the stuff I'd read about him. To prepare the composition, Straker said he did some research and received a little guidance from the Lieutenant Governor’s office, who defined the King as a practical, community-minded change-maker. I love that it helps Saskatchewan mark this occasion. And that's, frankly, the reason why I wanted to do it. Straker said he’s written pieces to celebrate other leaders who are leaving public office.
There's no track record you're celebrating with a song per se, you're marking something.” “So in this role for King Charles the Third, he's just starting. “The challenge with writing a song for an event like this is you're writing a song to mark the start of something,” he told CTV News. He said this was a unique opportunity he couldn’t pass up. He received the 2020 Roots/Folk Artist of the Year award at the Saskatchewan Music Awards, and in 2019, he was given his first Western Canadian Music Award. Straker has performed over 100 shows across Canada, Europe, and Latin America, his website said. “Resumption of a commercial use will bring the premises back into productive use and re-establish an active frontage within this part of the town centre – where investment and new vitality seem badly needed.Homegrown musical talent Jeffery Straker will perform a new song composed for the King’s coronation during a celebration at Government House in Regina.
“The proposal to revert to a hairdressing salon within is entirely appropriate and compatible with these surroundings on the town centre fringe. It was not established long enough to have developed any status as a community asset and other small bars and established pubs are available in the rest of the town centre. “The gin bar at 79 Low Street was very short lived. In the past the premises were used as a Council Benefits Information Office. The unit in Keighley’s Grade II listed Royal Arcade has most recently been occupied by a bar called The Ginning Rat – which shut last year.Ī planning application to convert the unit into a hairdressing salon had been submitted to Bradford Council by Janet Holroyd.Īpproving the plans, officers said: “The premises were very briefly used as a gin bar at the ground floor level.
Plans to turn a former bar in a Victorian town centre arcade into a salon will bring vitality into an area “where it is badly needed.”
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