We had a nice day today, Lary carved on his bird with the group, he and Dave put in the eyes in their blue jays, and together with the woodburning he has done recently, the bird is coming to life. Wendy and I spent the afternoon together, and we came over and looked at our new house. That was super, I see new things each time we visit over there.
This evening we went over to our neighbouring park, Catalina Spa and saw Sheila and Freddie Pelletier's concert, they are a very talented pair of Canadian entertainers who sing and play guitars. Freddie has played in some very good bands, and his playing is excellent, he is an incredible guitar picker and player overall.
Their enjoyment of each other comes across very clearly too, as does Freddie's nearly insuppressable sense of humour. When they return home after their winter tour entertaining through Texas, Arizona and California they hold a summer music camp in their small town in Saskatchewan. I think it is Duck Lake, and the camp focuses on guitar playing, with both children and adult students.
They have great energy, and send off such friendly positive vibes, it's the end of the snowbird season here in the valley, and over 60 people were there to listen to the 2 hour concert tonight. Their CDs are available, they have recorded quite a number of them. He often plays in a Chet Atkins style, but as we saw tonight, they can play music and songs from nearly any era, they did a number of spontaneous requests tonight, in a ton of different styles. My favourite was the guitar song, Apache. Sheila sang a pretty Karen Carpenter song which I loved. The audience gave them a standing ovation at the end of the high energy concert.
I forgot to add that he clogs or plays beats with his feet while he plays the guitar, he has a piece of thick plywood that he has under his feet, and he taps loudly, it really enhances his sound. So fun. Sheila can yodel, it's very pretty.
Tomorrow we have our last flute lesson with Annie, then I will help with the poker afternoon here in our park. They play weekly, this might be the last session for this season.
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