Well this past Saturday was our last full performance of the summer. While I am sad to see it go I am also happy that we will get back to learning new songs and hopefully doing some school workshops and community clinics. That’s the great thing about it just when you are ready for a change of pace, voila! The performance went well. It was at the Parry Sound Airport’s 8th Annual Fall Fly-In. It’s kind of fitting, we started the year at the Parry Sound Dragon Boat Festival and we ended it back in Parry Sound. Little history fact for you, our very first public performance was in Parry Sound way back in 2001. There was this cray little plan that runs on two 15 hp motors. Can you believe it? They also had a Fokker triplane (maybe better described by saying, The Red Baron’s plane) and a Sopwith biplane. Also some guy flew in with a pretty cool stunt biplane. I heard that they had 3,000 people through out the day. The runway was super busy. I sure am glad I wasn’t the guy on the ground directing all the air traffic.

As a kind reader pointed out the link I had put up for the podcast sure did link you to a CBC podcast of the “The World This Weekend”. It just so happened I linked it to the wrong one. I have fixed the previous link and here it is again. CBC PODCAST. Thanks for the heads up!

Come on people, no comments? Your going to make me think you don’t like us. OK, not really but don’t make me resort to making aliases and comments on my own posts. People have told me that they like the blog and they find it fun to read, well you could also say it in the comments so that other people know. SPREAD THE WORD! Tell me what concerts you have seen, what your favorite song is and think of it, you won’t just be telling me you will be telling the world that you are a true blue fan! I know you’re out there.

We are just eating dinner as we wait to start our performance for the Hospice Muskoka “Summer Sizzler” Charity Benefit at the J.W. Marriot Rosseau Resort & Spa. Boy, that’s a mouthful! This is the second year we have participated and it’s great. It’s a beautiful setting here at The Rosseau. We are set up on the Lakeview Lawn. The name says it all. It is right behind the main building up on a bluff that overlooks Lake Rosseau. The weather is perfect! It’s nice and warm but not to humid. Maybe next time I’m here it will be as a guest so I can just kick back and chill.

I’m sitting here at my computer more than a little disappointed. Tonight’s concert for the Festival of the Arts in Huntsville has been canceled. Normally we would already be setting up, but not this evening. Something about a tornado watch. It seems hard to believe as I am looking out my window and the weather is actually starting to clear but that too is part of the forecast, the calm before the storm, I guess. It makes since. We really can’t risk being caught out in the kind of storm that is predicted, besides who would come? A lot of us really like this performance it is such a nice setting. The park at the town docks makes for a perfect little open air amphitheater and the audience is just great. Oh well, it is not to be this year. Here are a few pictures from last year.