{"id":8007,"date":"2011-07-01T06:16:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T11:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=8007"},"modified":"2017-11-13T01:55:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T20:55:59","slug":"canadian-recording-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/canadian-recording-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Recording Artists&#8230; latest stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8008\" title=\"canadian_recording_artists_3_souvenir_sheet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/canadian_recording_artists_3_souvenir_sheet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8009\" title=\"canadian_recording_artists_3_bruce_postcard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/canadian_recording_artists_3_bruce_postcard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8010\" title=\"canadian_recording_artists_3_mcgarrigles_postcard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/canadian_recording_artists_3_mcgarrigles_postcard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8011\" title=\"canadian_recording_artists_3_ginette_postcard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/canadian_recording_artists_3_ginette_postcard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8012\" title=\"canadian_recording_artists_3_robbie_postcard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/canadian_recording_artists_3_robbie_postcard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8013\" title=\"canadian_recording_artists_3_ofdc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/canadian_recording_artists_3_ofdc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"258\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Montr\u00e9al, Quebec<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just in time for Canada Day, I&#8217;m happy to announce that our latest set of commemorative stamps in the <em>Canadian Recording Artists<\/em> series has been launched. This series of stamps features black &amp; white portraits of the artists, supported by typographic tapestries comprised of song titles. The iconic Canadian artists featured in this series are Bruce Cockburn, Robbie Robertson, Kate &amp; Anna McGarrigle, and chanteuse Ginette Reno. CD-shaped booklets of 8 die-cut, pressure-sensitive stamps (along with envelope seals and information about each artist) are available in four styles, with individualized covers for each of the four artists. Also available are souvenir sheets, postcards, and an Official First Day Cover (OFDC, popular with philatelists).<\/p>\n<p>CIRCLE\u00a0has been designing the <em>Canadian Recording Artists<\/em> stamp series since 2007; the first series featured Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, Anne Murray, and Paul Anka; series two featured \u00c9dith Butler, Stompin\u2019 Tom (Connors), Bryan Adams, and Robert Charlebois.<\/p>\n<p>These limited edition stamps are available through post offices across the country as of 30 June 2011. They can be ordered online by following the links at Canada Post\u2019s website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadapost.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.canadapost.ca<\/a>, or by calling toll-free: 1-800-565-4362 (Canada and the United States), or 1-902-863-6550 (from other countries).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Images: the round souvenir sheet on gummed stock; the four \u201cpostage paid\u201d postcards, each featuring an enlarged stamp\/portrait; and the Officidal First Day Cover (OFDC) with date-of-issue cancellations.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montr\u00e9al, Quebec Just in time for Canada Day, I&#8217;m happy to announce that our latest set of commemorative stamps in the Canadian Recording Artists series has been launched. This series of stamps features black &amp; white portraits of the artists, supported by typographic tapestries comprised of song titles. The iconic Canadian artists featured in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,11,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15526,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions\/15526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}