Tag: great canadian adventure
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The Great Canadian Adventure, Day 5–MEMOIRE ET RACINES!
I’m going to do an entire post about Memoire et Racines, because I am here to tell you, Internets, that deserves an entire post to itself even if we only made it to one day’s worth of awesome! And this is going to get long, so this is getting a fold!
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The Great Canadian Adventure, Days 4 and 6–Montreal!
I don’t have any pics from Montreal, I’m afraid, so y’all are going to have to just make do with my textual descriptions to cover Days 4 and 6 of the Great Canadian Adventure–which I am combining on account of Memoire et Racines, Day 5, gets its own post! The bulk of Day 4, really,…
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The Great Canadian Adventure, Day 3!
And now, let’s get back to recounting the details of the great Canadian Adventure, shall we? Because I gotta tell you people about Memoire et Racines, not to mention GBS, but I ain’t skipping ahead! Our last day in Toronto involved less wandering around than the two previous ones, in no small part because we…
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The roundup post of All the Musics!
Internets, I came back from this vacation with a grand spanking total of 13, count ’em, 13 CDs! Most of these were bought in Newfoundland, but considering that Quebec threw me discs by Bernard Simard et Compagnie (and any band that includes Olivier Demers is by definition GODDAMN RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS) AND three out…
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The Great Canadian Adventure, Day 2!
Day 2 of the Great Canadian Adventure involved more wandering around through Toronto, and in this particular case, that meant that our fine host cow took solarbird and me along Queen Street towards downtown Toronto. The plan was to stop and have lunch and hang out for a bit, until it was time to meet…
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The Great Canadian Adventure, Day 1!
So yeah, the Great Canadian Adventure has begun, folks! solarbird and I made it safely to Toronto last night, after a surprisingly relaxed and groovy jaunt out of Sea-Tac. Thanks to spazzkat kindly running us down to the airport on his way to work, we got there super-early and had acres of time to kill.…
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A link roundup for the imminent Great Canadian Adventure!
Since Canada is very, VERY nigh, I now present for you, O Internets, this roundup and summary of everything that and I will be doing while we’re there! First up, Toronto! Where we will be enjoying the hospitality of the most excellent , as well as getting to meet Susan Who Is the Most Awesome…
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One week and counting down to the Great Canadian Adventure!
PEOPLE OF ATLANTIC CANADA AND QUEBEC! There are but seven scant days until and I will be among you for two weeks of hanging out, meeting up with people, and general musical awesomeness! We are looking very, very forward to meeting up with , with fellow Le Vent du Nord fan Susan, with hopefully (HEY…
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Memoire et Racines is GO!
I just doublechecked the Memoire et Racines site, and see to my massive, massive delight that Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer do, in fact, have a presence on the schedule on the 28th–the day I’m targeting for and me to be there! Which means I will get to see them! Seriously, seriously excited by that! Aside…
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Further musical planning for the Great Atlantic Canadian Adventure!
*squeal* Keeping a hawk’s eye on the tour Calendar on leventdunord.com just paid off. Looks like they ARE booked to play on the 28th at Memoire et Racines, the weekend that Dara and I will be in Quebec! Which means that the priority of getting to that festival for a day trip on the 28th…