Toronto bound

We have arrived in Toronto, in a gorgeous little house, in a totally trendy hipster central part of town where we will be living for the last three weeks of the tour. We have come to the part where we have a base and venture out of the city on various smaller drives to surrounding towns to play, but get the comfort of all those little homely appliances that are missed so much when moving every day.

In the last three weeks we have seen so much of Canada, its ridiculous. We drove from Vancouver all the way to Toronto, a fairly decent chunk of Canada if your geography is up to scratch. We have had some terrific shows. Highlights have included The Streaming Café; a show that was streamed online live as it was happening which was interactive with the audience (online and physically in the room) who could ask questions, make comments and that sort of thing. What a blast we had and such a nice thing to do the middle of a big trip away from home.

We worked our way through to Winnipeg and then onto Lac Du Bonnet which is where we had one brilliant weekend at Fire & Water Festival. All the artists were put up at a lakeside paradise, with cabins, camping, canoes, diving boards, a host who cooked the most amazing meat dishes you could imagine all weekend and big bonfire jams which was a nightly occasion usually finishing up at sunrise. And that wasn’t even the festival itself! We met and hung out with some fabulous bands. The Crooked Brothers, The Weber Brothers, Low Flying Planes & Oh My Darling, so check them out because you wont be disappointed. We went water skiing and tubing too, but that’s a whole tour diary in itself, so I won’t spoil it.

Before we hit Toronto, we stopped to do a house concert in Orillia ON which was the best fun and could not have had a more gorgeous setting. A big high multiple level balcony was the stage that looked over a gully type backyard with high trees stooping down to frame the area as the sun was going down. What fun, what a place and what great people!

So much more to come and so much more that hasn’t been mentioned; otherwise you’d be up for a novel length read.

Signing off,
Beth