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This past summer has been a great ride of grand and smaller grand shows. With the Toronto Pan Am Games, it was a thrill to play a few related ‘sport’s’ parties associated with the events. Some show’s that came to mind was a swim team party at the Madison, a track and field party at Fionn MacCools Burlington, gymnastics crowd at Paupers, and sitting in on a non related Jam session at the Windermere in Muskoka (non-sports related). Apart from HOV lanes, and countless traffic delays (I’m a travelling musician who needs to bring a PA everywhere I go, I can’t swing it on the TTC), it was an amazing summer with bizarre audience requests (i.e. Hey, can you play that Eagle Eye Cherry song, into Cherry Pie, with a side of Shut up and Dance with me). Joking aside, I’d like that everyone who came out to these random shows over the last 3 months, it wouldn’t be the same without you, the locations where so ‘all over the GTA map’

Sometimes the ‘energy’ from a show continues into the next day. In this case, I teamed up (or did a B2B as they say in business) with a fantastic craft brewery – Cameron’s Brewery and Longo’s Elite Restaurant – “Corks” for a special show. As guests ate dinner and sampled some great beer from Cameron’s I took requests and played a stellar set which could be heard all over the Grocery Store. So much to the point that I got requests from the Bakery, Deli and Produce Dept. A little surreal.

This was followed into the next morning with a quick meet and chat with Maie Pauts from Toronto’s radio station Boom 97.3 on the show the night before. A great way to plug Cameron’s, Corks and yeah me (why not?)