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Next Shows: Nov.6th Bier Markt Don Mills Mall 8:30pm, Nov.16th Fionn MacCools Yonge/Davisville 9:30pm, Nov.21st Fionn MacCools Britania 8:30pm, Nov.28th Fionn MacCools Winston Churchill 8:00pm.

When does a gig, stop being a ‘gig’, and becomes an event? When you play a great golf course lounge. That’s what I did twice in late October at the world renowned ‘Glen Abbey Golf Course’, where I played in their beautiful Eighteen Lounge and Restaurant to professional golfers and exclusive club members. While bar mitzvah, weddings were going on in the hall beside me, I was doing every hit from 1961 to around 1988 to appease every demographic present while they ate their dinner, or sipped their martinis. A common sign language occurrence would happen as I would get a ‘thumbs up’, ‘head nod’, ‘eye blink’ from patrons as they listened. As I’d perform, I’d also stare out of a large window, which had a fantastic view of the golf course, and a ‘RBC Canadian Open’ sign, it was a pretty mind-blowing. Four!

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)