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So, after all this time, I finally girded up my loins enough to gear up this incredible sho with some fantastic people at the Dream Cafe. I was enthralled, first of all, that the mighty Pierre Coutore was into the idea of recording a live show at the Dream Cafe. Accordingly, I booked the great and gentle giant, who is Corwin Fox, who was plumed with some of the sickest recording gear I have ever in my life been privy to. Then I begged Chris to come up from Nanaimo on a whim. He…

Wow... Most people didn't know what was going on when I sent out my invites for the show last night. The Streaming Cafe is a very cutting edge venue that gives indepedent, unsigned, relatively unknown artists a platform to perform for a global audience in a live streaming environment. It is another entrepreneurial endeavour of Kelowna's new elite artists group who have been scheming up innovative ways to promote the artists moving throughout our community in super high tech mediums. Totally nerve racking, performing for a global audience. We had 80 viewers logged onto the site (streamingcafe.net) at 8pm,…

My knuckles are totally bruised on my right hand, from knocking on things during yesterday's shows. My evening show at Salty's Beachouse every night has me in this tight little tiki shack like nook of the room, and I can't help but transform the 3 walls that surround my little stomp stage into a drum kit when the night gets really rockin. And my left hand is mangled from playing so much guitar (nearly 8 hours!). The technical end of the summer heralded in a whole new batch of opportunities, and things don't really slow down in this town until…

What a year!! What a rich and complex elixir of grace and clumsiness. What an intoxicating blend of learning and aptitude! Not just music. Not just the poetry that makes my life an interesting read. Every facet of my every day has been like the finest cognac… and I'll pour it down my throat and smile. Wow, we've been blessed with the harvest of a fine season. I've had a couple of months off from my vigorous schedule of gigging, and it's been wonderful to scratch away at the lottery ticket of my layout and see what kind of gifts…