Review of Ontario and Vancouver Show
May 11th, 2008 - An update and a show in Vancouver
Alright.
Posting time again. Sorry to all of you who are checking in regularly
that there hasn't been much to content up here to check out. So what's
been going on? Well, we wrapped up our tour of Southern Ontario. Played
a few great shows with the guys out there. We managed to get stuck in
that monster blizzard which was pretty interesting. Dan and I, (Dan
plays guitar in the band and is a great guy) were staying a little
outside of town with a good friend of mine and had to fight our way in
to make it to our show. The storm seemed to peak right when we were on
stage. It was madness.
En route to the gig we saw a homeless
fellow fall in the snow, totally hammered, and proceed to lay right on
the middle of the tram tracks as he was too drunk to stand up again. It
was pretty harsh...for a second I figured we were going to watch this
poor guy get run over by the tram. Fortunately, with our honking and
the tram drivers attention the guy avoided getting squished. I did have
to run out and help the guy to the side of the road though as he still
couldn't get up.
We made it all over the place in Ontario
including Ottawa, Waterloo, London and Toronto. We had a really good
time at the boathouse in Waterloo and it was really great to connect
with some of the people from the radio station there that have been so
good to us.
Things since then have been good. I'm busy right
now working on one of the language projects that I have been working on
for the past few years. Across Canada and the United States many
aboriginal languages are either threatened or endangered. Michif, the
language of the Metis, is considered to be critically endangered. I'm
part of a team that is creating an interactive website to try to
preserve and revitalize this language. It is a pretty major undertaking
and we're really trying to improve the site a lot this year. You can
have a look at it at www.learnmichif.com
I'm now getting ready
to play a bunch of shows in the near future including a showcase a New
Music West. We're playing Friday, May 16th a 930 pm at Cafe Deux
Soleils on Commercial Drive. Should be a pretty good time. We're also
going to be playing at a touring festival called Two Fest with shows at
the McPherson Theater, Port Theater and Centennial Theater in Victoria,
Nanaimo and Vancouver.
So that's a little mini update for
now...I'll be sure to write more soon. If you're around the Vancouver
area, come check out the show on Friday. I think tickets are $10.00 at
the door.
Peace