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$16,000 raised for the Ottawa Food Bank

Big Soul Project produced and performed their annual Christmas Concert at Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre after 3 years of pandemic closures. The theme "Let's Celebrate!" was aptly named for everyone, choir, band, and audience alike, as we all felt very joyous during and after both the open dress rehearsal and the full concert.

Funds were raised within the choir to welcome guests to our concert who might not have otherwise been able to attend and we were so pleased they could share this joyful event with us.

This year we are thrilled to announce that between the two concerts BSP was able to raise $8,000 for the Ottawa Food Bank which was matched by an anonymous donor bringing the total to $16,000!! A reason to celebrate indeed.

We are looking forward to the next season and the opportunity to sing for other good causes in the Ottawa area. Hope to see you there!

Being in a movie--just another thing that happens when you're part of BSP!

Posted on August 12, 2016
Eric Peterson and Roxanne Goodman

Big Soul Project and Deep Groove Band, with guest saxophone player, Zeek Gross, appeared in a scene in a movie being filmed in Ottawa in mid-August. The movie, which will be released some time next year, is called His Master's Voice. It's the story of a young man who goes in search of his estranged father, who is played by Eric Peterson of Street Legal and Corner Gas fame. In the scene that Big Soul Project and Deep Groove were in, Eric Peterson is in a church and starts singing along with the congregation, played by choir members. Eric Peterson shown here with Music Director, Roxanne Goodman. 

His Master's Voice, which already made the news for using the National Research Council's wind tunnel facility as a spaceship for another scene in the movie, is a Canadian-Hungarian co-production written and directed by award-winning Hungarian filmmaker Gyorgy Palfi.