Just got back from a much needed canoe trip with best buddies. Ah, Algonquin, your choruses of loons, how I love thee.
More things I loved about the THUNDERERING WOMEN FESTIVAL:
-- 'Kay, JANE SIBERRY PLAYED MY GUITAR!!!
In a workshop on the friday afternoon which was beeoootiful, and also in her concert... She left ma geetar humming in a tuning I have never done: 4 D's and 2 G's tuned in a pallendrone. What a gushing moment when she played full through and sweet as hell the "You don't need anybody" song that reminded me how I used to feel, the sway and swoon, so full and popping when I was a young teen. It was just what I needed to hear right then, same crazy sensation, except I'm so way mature now so it meant even more. :) Lawdy, shoulders do I stand on. And lady played MA GUITARRRRRRRRRRE.
Also, what i loved was the Ladybird Sideshow girls all of whom are solo wicked, and combined, God those sweet sweet harmonies (Lisa Winn put up these pics! Sorry, that's not the guitar). Special moments jamming late in the beer tent with them all and Serena Ryder pulling out the tunes everybody knows. There was a gaggle of hilarious boys strutting for the pretty ladies with their high spirited pop covers -- Good acoustic version of that "HEYA" song that seems to whizz by in every car these hot summer days.
And of course, the most ENCROYABLE Barley Wik from Victoria, who literally swept me off my feet here in Montreal, piled me into their van, and camped me up the lake Superior, which, by the way for you Thunder Bay destined tourists, was SO gorgeous ... pretty much something like what heaven oughta be like, that massive lake, those rocks and trees, the sandy beach, the jam around the campfire. Such great tunes, such good feeling.
And Sweetwater made my day, and there was a gorgeous Fruit Trio jam, those Aussie's know how, poor Emma Wall with her broken leg, what a cutie, what a trooper.And meegwetch, wise women healers of MuskowzeeEkwewuk. They played prayers. I cried and had revelations, realized I couln't lie to myself about some big huge things anymore. It really works I tell you.
And SO MUCH MORE.
I missed Spoon though, fuck. Gender schmender fender bender. He was busy playing up a storm at Toronto Pride. Looking forward to Victoria coming up.
Speaking of which, here's a pic of moi from backstage at Lion D'Or for Le Boudoir. That was the middle of June already!. Ayay, time is flying by. I'm busy with 10 zillion projects. Okay, 7.
