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MtH #6 Opening Night
The Old Lady’s Doing Fine How’s this for a great start to the Massey Hall run. It’s 2:30 pm, a perfect time to leave my house in Mississauga and get downtown comfortably for a 4pm sound check. That will take into consideration most contingencies like traffic jams, searching for a parking spot etc. And it…
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This is our second time this year at this unusual venue. We do club-style shows from time to time. In fact, BB King’s, just the night before, is a show-bar but a large one like Barrymore’s in Alexandria Virginia or the Canyon Club just north of LA. But the Ram’s Head is more like the places I…
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Hi everyone. I’m back at the hotel after an excellent show at the Flynn Centre here in Burlington Vermont and preparing this post for tomorrow’s show in New York. I love going to “The City” which, the last time I checked, puts me in the minority in our organization. Not that anyone hates it, just…
Read MoreNewsletter 5 We Get Mail
Hi Everyone I just got back to the hotel after our show at the Birmingham Symphony Hall. This venue is spectacular and new. NEW! An anomaly in a place that treasures everything old…………okay, stop it. Not funny.We’re starting to get some feedback from Tuesday’s show at Royal Albert Hall . Here’s an excerpt from a…
Read MoreThe Emerald Isle Newsletter 6
And Finally Hi EveryoneHere it is, Day 16 and I don’t have the UK money system under control yet. The paper money is easy. I’m talking about the coins. I had a handle on the one pound coin but blew my confidence early by mixing some of them up with Euros (they look similar). If…
Read MoreNewsletter 4 Royal Albert Hall
Hi EverybodyIt’s 2:05 am and I have to be on the tour bus at 10:30. I should really just hit the sack but I thought I’d at least get a start on the Royal Albert Hall show. It was a huge success. What more can I say? Right from the opening chord I’m off to…
Read MoreLiverpool UK-Ireland Newsletter 3
May 21 Have Mersey Hi EverybodyAlready I’m getting some feedback and I think it’s great. Please keep it coming. Most of it is support or saying hi or physical threats……..rhetoric, pretty much. But a question was asked that I’ll address before we look at The Liverpool Show.In the Intro, I made one of those “busier…
Read MoreUK-Ireland Tour Newsletter 1
​Hi everyoneSome of you know about this and some don’t. With 17 recipients and growing, this is just a fun little newsletter reporting events about the current Gordon Lightfoot tour of the UK and Ireland. I’ll take pictures when I can. If you don’t want to receive this it’s going to be a little tough…
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