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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.

There’s always logistics involved in how and where to setup your equipment for your gig. Should the speaker be here, should the amp be there, will it give feedback, will anyone trip over this XLR cable, etc. In the dead of summer, I played the Bloor St. Fionn MacCools patio for the 1^st time, and in my surprise, the patio was in a garden, overtop of a fense floor in which the TTC Subway was underneath. So every 15 minutes, you’d feel a hot breeze then, hear the rattling of the subway. In addition, you got the 9-5’ers leaving work, watching and listening behind you, shouting “play some _____”. It was so random, but a really amazing gig for the fact that it was a 360 degree audience.

Next Shows: Aug.1st Fionn MacCools Yonge/Davisville, Aug.3rd Symposium Cafe, Aug.6th Turtle Jacks Oakville, Aug.8th Fionn MacCools Yonge/Bloor. 

Everyshow you get requests from the audience, some are great, some are just down-right bizarre. For instance, I now have a monthly engagement at Bier Markt at Shops at Don Mills. Everytime I’ve play there, someone requests Bruno Mars (I decline, but give them the more pleasing Michael Jackson song, who is technically what Bruno Mars kinda is), someone comes on stage to tell me that they play guitar, some random girl always says ‘whooo’ after an Oasis song, and someone asks if I can rap…the answer is yes. Let the summer play on