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Anything can happen when you a play a gig (or sometimes nothing at all). On a rainy Friday night in suburb of Milton, I played a great pub called Ned Devine’s. The first half of the night I played in a party room for a 40^th bday party (i.e. hey, remember this song from 1985), the 2^nd half of the night, I played in the main room to the Milton general public (who were in Grade 8 probably around 1991). I guess there must have been something in the rain, because I’ve never seen a crowd get so into the songs I was playing (dancing, singing, crying, screaming, ok, maybe not crying). I was offered 3 times to play at random house parties (there’s a lot of houses in Milton to do that), and offered to come back to Ned Devine’s in 2014. A wet night indeed.

As the summer season came to a close, so did the Patio Season. And that meant it was time to start playing ‘indoors’ again (for you ego dreaming musicians, isn’t it like moving from the stadiums, back to the arenas?). But before that happened I close the patio season at Fionn MacCool’s Yonge Street / Davisville location with a last patio show. It was really amazing, because the vibe in the air was that this was the last one of the season. It was the first time I had people across the street actually listening, and clapping, as well as people who just parked themselves beside me, and just listened (without  buying a drink)

Helping the community is what it’s all about. Especially when your singing pop songs underneath an Auction sign (and your not being Auctioned). The Oakville Community of Oak Park had their annual fair, and due to rain, I was placed at the top of the stairs at their headquarters house. This was the only way I wouldn’t get electrocuted. Yes, it’s me way off on the top of the stairs.