Winnipeggers take shot with hockey tune

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Go, go Jets, go / The Whiteout is here / The Stanley Cup is so near

A pair of creative Winnipeg Jets fans have turned their passion for the team into a campfire anthem inspired by the NHL playoffs.

Go, go Jets, go! is a catchy, easy-listening piece of fan art with lyrics and melody by Winnipeggers Freya Hansen and Gary Wallace.

“It’s meant to be a light, positive message so we can all get together and get behind the team,” says Hansen, who grew up in Saskatchewan and became a Jets booster when the team returned to Winnipeg in 2011.

This is the amateur poet’s third attempt at recording a Jets-related song. While previous drafts involved hockey-fied lyrics to popular rock songs, Hansen decided to pen an original ditty for this year’s playoff run.

She asked Wallace, a friend from bridge and a hobbyist composer, to come up with some music to accompany the lyrics about her favourite players and their notable skills — from Mark Scheifele skating very well to Kyle Connor scoring goals and goals to Connor Hellebyuck blocking, stopping and saving pucks.

“I’ve always been a Jets fan and I thought, ‘Hey, this is a project which I’d like to try,’” Wallace says.

The song is the retiree’s 148th original composition and his first on the topic of hockey. Wallace — who performs at open mics and with his church choir — typically writes about nature, spirituality and his family, and records the songs in his basement on a reel-to-reel tape recorder.

Go, go Jets, go! came together in a matter of days and is now available on YouTube (wfp.to/gojetsgosong). Sharing the song online represents a personal milestone for Hansen.

“It has been a lifelong goal of mine to turn one of my poems into lyrics and have it recorded. I’m really happy with the result,” she says.

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Both Hansen and Wallace hope the song inspires others to come up with their own Jets-inspired art.

The gentle, strumming ballad could also serve as a much-needed balm for the frayed nerves of Jets supporters following the team’s recent back-to-back losses in St. Louis.

“I’m trying to stay hopeful that they’ll win two more games,” Hansen says.

“I’ve always been a Jets fan and I thought, ‘Hey, this is a project which I’d like to try.'”–Gary Wallace

Readers are invited to share their Winnipeg Jets fan art, musical or otherwise, with the Free Press. Email your creations to arts@winnipegfreepress.com or send a copy, courtesy of Editorial, to 1355 Mountain Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba, R2X 3B6.

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