Velvet

Truly, 'tis the panda bears that doth do win. (merci bouche!!!)

Thanks Edger (for the donation and for the kind words)!! It seems to get easier all the time - I guess because it feels so good. It's sort of the opposite of the snowball effect. I'm aiming to get to the top in 22 minutes or less this time but that might be a little unrealistic...so long as I post my best time so far (25:56) I'll be happy.

Looks like we're climbing the tower again this year on April 25! if anyone would like to donate to World Wildlife Fund and support our climbs, here are the links to our fundraising pages. Cheers! phorbesie's page: https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/FundraisingPage.aspx?registrationID=2829084&langPref=en-CA Velvet's page: https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/FundraisingPage.aspx?registrationID=2826180&langPref=en-CA&Referrer=%26Referrer%3dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.wwf.ca%252f#&panel1-2

Clearly I'm referring to the Quebec Summer Music Festival and not the Ottawa Bluesfest.

Wow. $81.33 per ticket for an eleven-day festival, taxes/fees/shipping included. And hands down the most accurate, efficient, and non-frustrating online ticketing system ever. Like, ever. Leaps and bounds better than anything else. The site had a countdown to onsale. When onsale happened you were randomly given a place in line. The page told you your place, told you how long your wait was, kept a descending tally of how many orders remained ahead of you, had an email notification option to let you know when your turn came up, told you you'd have ten minutes to fill the order when your turn came and you could leave the page without leaving your place in line.

This is gonna be an awesome month of shows at Mugshots with Mike. I'm especially excited for the April 16th show with just the two drummers. Can't go to every one without going tomorrow! See you there Bradm, hope to see some of you other music-lovers there too. No cover.

I guess I found out how much pacing it takes to see that many shows in such a short timeframe. Fest runs from 11am-7pm, after shows start at 8pm, 10pm, midnight...there are after shows that START at 3am and/or 5am!

During New Orleans Jazzfest I found out about stamina. This time I'm there for these three shows and hope to have little in the way of distraction. I almost balked at this Grisman thing just because it'll basically mean going from the show to the lot, but hell, I gotta have brunch somewhere; might as well have a good live band over coffees!

http://www.infofestival.com/Home/ Lots of good stuff for me that isn't at Bluesfest (though some of these acts have played Bluesfest): Boston The Stones Foo Fighters Barr Bros. ZPZ Primus Doobie Bros.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/bob-burns-lynyrd-skynyrd-drummer-killed-in-car-crash-1.3021343

By the way, thanks for the info Rob. Hope to see you there!

Just this for us. I prefer pre-shows to post-shows.

Wow, the doc looks super-great. Oh, and that Dan Walsh guy rocks.

That should be good.

Hope not.

Geez. http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/a-moveable-musical-feast-this-falls-folk-festival-will-expand-into-bank-street-clubs-with-video

I don't think so. You might be thinking of The Who.

I'm about halfway through listening to this in an on-again off-again manner. I gotta tell you, that's a lot of great music for free on a Sunday afternoon. Zeke Gross has such a great tone on the sax. He makes everything sound like the closing credits of Saturday Night live. You should listen to this recording.

Great show on Sunday. People should listen to this.

Tomorrow is Doug's (from the John Henrys) birthday too. I think he'll be there.

All I'm gonna hit is Skynyrd and the final Fri/Sat/Sun unless I score a fest pass again.

Newly announced on CBC All In A Day: June 24 Huey Lewis & The News June 28 Beirut

Thanks for the head's up on Mr. D. I might just make it out for this one.

Still have my (sticky) fingers crossed for a Rolling Stones announcement on Monday.

Shouldn't be too many conflicts.