Come to Music Camp This Summer!

Week One: Aug 3-7

Week Two: Aug 14-18

Early Bird registration ends on June 30th! You can still get in after June 30th but it costs more. 

If you don't want to come for the instruction, the nightly concerts are awesome!

Concerts are $8 a person per night, or $25 for the week. There is dancing to follow on all but the last night. The first three nights are instructor concerts (top class musicians all styles), and the last two nights are featuring students. The fourth night we get to try and explain a certain genre of music (Cross-Canada Challenge), by playing/singing/dancing/talking. The last night is the student concert where the groups get to play what they learned that week. 

It's a blast! Pull that instrument out of the closet, or come and try a totally new instrument! And don't forget to try out the square dancing (which you can still do if you just come for the concerts)! 

Oh, and by the way, I'm there both weeks! :-) 

Music and Life

I haven't posted for a while... Sorry to all who read my posts. 

I've been settling in here with work and all. Unfortunately the cat, Snow, decides that he likes me. So now, I who dislikes cats in general, have a 'friend' who thinks that I should pet him, and feed him treats. But, I have my revenge. Snow is a very dignified cat, he never plays, I make him do tricks for his treats. Which he dislikes greatly, but he does the tricks because he really likes the treats. 

On Wednesday, the 13th, we went to a 50th birthday party for a good friend, Will E. There was lots of food, drinks, desserts, laughter, talk, and LOTS of music!!! Naomi and I sang two songs, Streets of London and Ole Dan Tucker. It was a lot of fun practicing the songs in preparation, even more fun singing them at the party. There was a lot of good music! Bluegrass, country, folk, fiddle, blues (Ken Hamm for 3/4 of an hour!), and comedy. We all had a blast!   

Don Carter took this picture of Naomi and I singing Streets of London. I was pretty much blocked in with mics. I had to stand behind the piano with Naomi so I could read the words. 

On Saturday I got even more music! We were in Regina and I didn't want to go to the movies with Naomi and Jesse, so I went and hung out with Ray Bell and Tahnis Cunningham at the Music In The House recitals. Good music! If you live in Regina and are looking for, guitar, fiddle, drum, piano, bass, or voice lessons, I would suggest you check out Music In The House this fall! I know several of the instructors who teach there. They're good people who know their instruments. 

Another thing that happened in Regina was that I got an iPhone 4S. So far I am loving it! :-) If you want my number you can Facebook me or email me. 

I am going for a riding lesson on Thursday! I'm really excited about that! I hope it works out for me to take lessons steady. Maybe eventually I'll move Coyote down here and take lessons on him. 

Music, Borsch, and BEETS!

Septmeber! All our hay is baled, and we're harvesting out of the garden! Today we're making borsch and sourquraut. So I spent the morning washing beets, peeling beets, chopping beets, and chopping cabbage. Borsch takes a LOT of beets. :-) My hands are now stained dark red. :-P But it'll taste good this winter! :-) It's so fun to see the freezer filling up with produce again. Rhubarb, raspberries, and a few packages of peas. Maybe, if we don't have a frost for a loooong time, we'll get some corn. Our garden got in late, so we're not gettting too much off it. Thankfully our neighbour's have given us lots of produce from their gardens.
Today I started learning Sweet Georgia Brown. I had played Gold Rush before and knew it pretty well, I just needed to memorize it. And that didn't take very long. :-) One of the tunes that I practiced today is, Down Yonder. The version I know is a Steve Kaufman version, and it has lots of slides. It's fun to play. :-) I'm listening to the Whistlepigs again. Their so good. :-) It seems funny that we know them. Usually the bluegrass Cds are from people that Dad's parents have heard at a festival in WA, and they send us a Cd. But this time we met the band first, and then told G&G about them. ;-D I like all the Cds from camp, but I think I like the Whistlepig's and Daniel Gervias' best of all. I love the song, The Old Home Place, off Unjugged by the Whistlepigs and my favourite off Daniel's Cd would be Phantom Of The Opry. It has a haunting feel to it that I love.
I'm hoping that we can have Gerald and Marge Dietrich up sometime. Gerry plays guitar, and he sings one song that's called, Old Log Cabin For Sale. It's so pretty. I knew the tune and can play it on the guitar, but I don't know the words. I should learn them, then us girls could learn an arrangement for it. I'm going to try to post some pictures from camp. Hopefully it'll work, Hannah's computer doesn't always like to post pictures.
That's all for now. G'day and keep on keepin' on!
Lyddy