The Traveling Mabels released their fourth studio album – TAKE ME HOME – this weekend, featuring a special book collaboration with an Alberta publisher.
“We’re so excited that baby Albertans will now have their own Alberta-themed lullaby,” says Calgary-based Lana Floen, one of the four Mabels, and lead vocalist on the song Alberta Blue. “I guess our voices could be putting babies to sleep all over the province,” she quipped.
The new album features “a prairie sky lullaby remix” of Alberta Blue, one of the Mabels’ most popular songs, with guest vocals by singer-songwriter Ian Tyson, and lyrics by High River songwriter Pat Hatherly.
Two CD / book release concerts are scheduled for June 18 and 19 at the Flare n’ Derrick Community Hall in Turner Valley, Alberta. Tickets to the concerts can be purchased at Showpass.
The Alberta Blue board book can be ordered at thetravellingmabels.com, redbarnbooks.ca and local bookstores; or via University of Toronto Press (UTP) Distribution. The board book features seven watercolour landscapes by Calgary artist Jesse Horne.
