Oct 9 2025 Frankie's Jazz Club, Vancouver
"Mimi Snider with Guests in 'Boleros, Bebop and Bossas' "
Thank you Vancouver! With many guest vocalists, the night of music was expressed through a special reunion of many voices and hearts, some of which there had been no videos for. And not everyone could attend. But the memory lives on in the heart and soul. The following vocalists are presented in this film as duets with Mimi Snider in the following order: LJ Mountenay, Suki Saggu, Pressley Ellese Murillo, Laura Crema, Harrison Ivaz with musicians Nick Apivor (vibraphone, percussion), Boris Favre (piano), Brent Gubbels (bass), and Chris Haas (drums).
Mimi Snider and Guests at Frankie's Jazz Club, Vancouver Oct 9, 2025
Mimi Snider Trio
Vancouver International Jazz Festival with Russ Botten (b), Tony Foster (keys) and Joe Poole (dr)
"I Thought About You" (Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Johnny Mercer) with Phil Belanger, (drums), Saul Berson (saxophone) Paul Blaney (bass), Dave Ivaz (guitar) (seen holding a recently reunited clarinet) at "The Third Thursday Vocal Jazz Jam" Nov 2016. Thanks to Nancy Newman for hosting these jams. Nancy Newman still holds these jams online to date!
"By The Bayou"
Music and Lyric (poem) by Mimi Snider
Aug 28 2010 ©
imagining the Bayou's in New Orleans…
as a tribute to Dr. George Blake (Storyteller, Psychologist, Buddhist)
"The tradition of the Mardi Gras Indians is one of the least known in the southern United States. Every year in February or early March, over forty “tribes” with names such as Wild Magnolias, Golden Eagles and Washitaw Nation join the New Orleans Carnival* to compete in symbolic jousting, outdoing each other with their ritual songs and dances. The exuberance…inspired by the ceremonial clothing of the indigenous people of the Plains. This is one way for the city's African-American communities to pay homage to the Native Americans who took in runaway slaves in the bayous of Louisiana."
https://en.unesco.org/courier/2021-1/new-orleans-black-neighbourhoods-pay-homage-native-americans
A pantoum put to music. (The modern pantoum is a poem of any length, composed of four-line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines of each stanza serve as the first and third lines of the next stanza).
Who’s the one who’s trying to reach me through these words
Giving inspiration so your voice is heard
No. I am not the one with wisdom to proclaim
You’re the One, the One without a name.
Giving inspiration so your voice is heard
Through this pen the ink flows forming all your words
You’re the one, the One without a name
You’re the One who frees us from our strain
“If you’re feeling helpless
To do anything at all
Just pray for love to come
And we will meet
In spirit time”
By the Bayou, Bayou Bayou, Bayou, Bayou, Bayou
By the Bayou, Bayou, Bayou, Bayou, Bayou, Bayou
Through this pen the ink flows forming all your words
Songbirds flying, reaching out towards the world
You’re the one who frees us from our strain
Reminding us our prayers can break these chains
Songbirds flying, reaching out towards the world
Out beyond with promises to soon return
Reminding us our prayers can break these chains
Returning to us ancient chants to cleanse the acid from the rain
“If you’re feeling helpless
To do anything at all
Just pray for love to come
And we will meet
In spirit time”
By the Bayou...
"I Love Loulé"
Factor Demo Award (2000)
Franco Foggetti composition
lyrics and vocals Mimi Snider