At midnight there was the premiere of the music video for the song “Wavin’ Flag” (originally by K’Naan), in which more than 50 talented young artists from Canada were involved – including Pierre from Simple Plan.
Check out the music video that includes the recorded song and also shots from the recording session:
The single is now available for online purchase at the Young Artists For Haiti official website. Please, go and help Haiti by buying this song:
Few days ago, we’ve informed that Pierre revealed on Twitter his participance on “a song for Haiti”. If you have been following our Twitter and Facebook updates, you already know that we had kind of a hunch that he had been talking about the so-called Young Artists For Haiti project. And now we can finally confirm we were right!
Pierre Bouvier from Simple Plan truly is one of more than 50 canadian artists, who have been asked to participate on the Young Artists For Haiti project, which gathered talented artists to re-record a song, originally by K’naan – Wavin’ Flag (you can listen to the original version here).
The names of all the participants should be released during this week, but thanks to the video from E-talk we are certain that besides Pierre, artists like Jacob Hoggard (Hedley), Nelly Furtado, Avril Lavigne, Lights or Justin Bieber also joined this project. Check out the E-talk video right here:
“With the wealth of young artists coming out of Canada, it was obvious that this is something we had to do,” says musical icon Bob Ezrin. “K’Naan’s lyrics in Wavin’ Flag embody the pain, passion and determination of the Haitian people and lend the hope of a brighter future. The response from the artists has been sensational, and I am so proud that together we may help to make a difference.”
“I’m honoured to have experienced the soulful energies of so many talented individuals who contributed their voices and expertise to ‘Wavin’ Flag’,” says K’naan. “The unity and spirit of everyone involved in the recording reminds us that we all share in the responsibility to help. We can’t let the situation in Haiti fall off the public’s agenda.”
The song and the video will both be released this Friday, March 12th, and all the proceeds will go to Free The Children, War Child Canada and World Vision Canada in support of their on-the-ground efforts in Haiti.
As you already know, Sebastien from Simple Plan was yesterday a part of the so-called Busking For Change event – during which canadian musicians were busking for change in the subway stations in Montreal, raising money for the War Child organisation.
Apart from Sebastien, also other canadian musicians attended this event – for example the bands October Sky or The New Cities or the signer Jason Bajada. Just like on his mini-tour, Sebastien had a little help of Frenchie with supporting musical instruments.
The money that was raising by this event (and which can still be donated online) will go to the War Child organisation, which helps children affected by war – by the way every year it’s about 200,000 children their and families.
Out of all the musicians that played in the Montreal’s subway stations yesterday, Sebastien managed to attract the most people.
Sebastien said: “It’s for the kids, you know. Two thirds of war casualties are children and when you see that statistic, you don’t have a choice, you have to be generous, you have to make a donation, and you have to get involved somehow and that’s why I’m here, I guess,”
Patrick’s Objectif Coulisses already made a video about Busking For Change, where you can check out how the event looked like and what the musicians said about it. Even thought the video is in French, it’s definitely worth watching!
And finally here is one video right from Sebastien’s performance on Busking For Change with his song Life Goes On:
Although Simple Plan didn’t perform at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver 2010, they DID perform at the closing ceremonies!
Their performace was a huge surprise for all the fans, as most of the stars, who were attending this event were confirmed before – but the guys from Simple Plan kept their surprise to themselves and they announced it only few minutes before they hit the stage with the song “Your Love Is A Lie” in front of an enormous audience in Vancouver, plus being watched by millions all over the world.
Local canadian stars ruled the closing ceremony – apart from Simple Plan also musicians Nickelback, Avril Lavigne, Alanis Morisette and Michael Buble performed.
Also. even though most of the Europe was asleep at that time, Simple Plan managed to get into the “Trending Topics” on Twitter!
You can already check out first 4 pictures from this event in our gallery:
And finally here is the promised performance of Simple Plan with the song Your Love Is A Lie at the clsing ceremonies at this year’s Winter Olympic games in Vancouver:
Last night, Pierre and Chuck posted a thanks to a special videobubble a videomessage to the fans, updating them on what they’ve been up to lately. You can check out the short “vlog” made by these two guys, who are currently still in LA working on the final material for the upcoming album, by clicking on the image below:
