04-16-23 Music fills the soul
This whole day was anticipation of the concert at days end. I was so excited to see my friends arrive here in Cranbrook to play tonight, and I was not disappointed. Keith Larsen and Ethan Askey opened the evening and solidly shared their gifts. Doug Cox and Linda McRae were joined by Sam Hurrie who came down from Riondel to sit in and wow, they blew us all away. It was so much fun to have a group of friends play music in the lovely Key City Lobby which is like a living room event. They were very well received and I was happy with the numbers even if some will come out of my pocket. It was worth it just to see them all. We had some good laughs after I sat on Doug’s knee to make announcements at his mic and then had to explain later that I was his friend for over a decade. They announced it was my birthday coming up and everyone spontaneously burst into song which was just lovely. Afterwards we met at Doug’s room, had some drinks and then ordered pizza and the four of us just had a great visit together. Sam has played with Hendrix and had two of the Beatles watch his shows back in the day. It was a single degree of separation from so many gifted artist sitting with these three, such a blessing for me. I am so glad I took the risk to promote them here and I don’t even really care what the final numbers are, at least I was able to pay them and would do it again in a heartbeat. My only disappointment was that the Fisher Peak crew were not there. I will be mentioning it at tomorrow’s board meeting as even others performing and in the audience noticed their absence.
triumphgal 