Pace on Earth

Ishmael and Maggie

Take Two

Thursday was the kickoff to a monster weekend but from what I can tell yesterday was a better example of the full force of the ECMA storm. Jian Ghomeshi taped Q in front of a packed house at The Playhouse and listening to that as I left work got me in the mood for some music. To feed that hunger, the boys and I went down to Dolan's for happy hour and an acoustic show with honky tonkers The Hard Core Troubadours, blues prodigy Keith Hallett. The highlight, though, was an acoustic set with the Trews. The bar was shoulder to shoulder at 4:30 Friday afternoon and these guys were the reason why. We had to find some space at the back and couldn't see very well if at all but I did get to hear them do this song, which is one of my favourites:

From there it was off to Nicky Zee's to catch some of Music PEI's stage and finally to the Delta and the Rock Stage. We arrived there in time to meet Jian Ghomeshi (I did not introduce myself as Dr. Rock) and he seemed a very nice fellow who has a genuinely keen interest in all things musical. I told him not to dally around yakking with the likes of me (although he seemed far more interested in Erin anyways, go figure) and to go check out the Tom Fun orchestra. We did the same and seeing them was a real treat. They are having a big party onstage and are infinitely watchable. Their energy, more then their sound, invokes thoughts of Arcade Fire:

Jimmy Swift closed the show at the Delta and they whipped the crowd into a frenzy as per usual. They are very good at getting people moving. By the end of that I was ready to get some sleep and gear up for another big day.

More to come,

Pace out.

Labels: ECMA, Jimmy Swift, the Trews, Tom Fun Orchestra

posted by Vitamin S @ 3:27 p.m.