The Life & Miss-Adventures of Emme Rogers
With the events of the last year, and echoes throughout the World that cause a chill in the spine, reminding us how fortunate we are for the freedoms we have and that we cannot forget those we owe that freedom to. Remember.
Remember. Lest we forget.
Pray we never live through scenes like these again.
Remember.
So just to be a brat, here is a taste of what my day today will sound (and look) like at 2014 Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival at Deer Lake Park!!! Happy Birthday to me!!! (Otherwise known as ‘Listen to Me Obnoxiously Flaunt the Blues Day’ or ‘My Rob Jone‘s Day’)
Some of the bluesy goodness of the artists that I have failed to share earlier this week …
Kicking off the day on the Main Stage …
Purring already and the day has yet to have begun! mmm … mmm … mmm
Have a feeling that these blues boys will have me cracking up!
Love their style!
Yep! I’d say, it’s good to be alive today!!!
This is just plain and simply a bit of awesome!
Parlez vous francais?!? Voulez vous le couchez avec …
Looking for me at Burnaby’s Deer Lake today? Just follow the sound of purring!
With the 2014 Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival tomorrow, they have left me with one more conundrum to ponder tonight … Shakey Graves or Wide Mouth Mason?!? You see Shakey Graves takes to the Garden Stage in Burnaby’s Deer Lake Park on Saturday August 9th from 4:45 to 5:30 pm, the exact same time as Wide Mouth Mason jams on the Westwood Stage. Really Burnaby Blues, you’re going to make me have to choose between these two great acts!?! ^%*%*R^&$!!!
Help me out here! Shakey Graves or Wide Mouth Mason?!?
Can’t help but smile at a man who simply describes himself as ‘gentleman from Texas.’
Don’t be fooled though, he is not actually the strong silent type …
… and oddly doesn’t sound Texan!
Really what more can I say then … SMILE!!!
Shaun Verreault is back at the Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival! This year as a part of Wide Mouth Mason!
So which stage would you pick???
Next up on the conundrums and decision making that the 2014 Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival has presented me with is Blind Boy Paxton (on the Garden Stage) or Chic Gamine (on the Westwood Stage) Saturday August 9th from 3:15 to 4:00 pm at Burnaby’s Deer Lake Park?!?
Oh why oh why must they torture me so!!! Do they not understand I want it all! It is blues and roots after all!
So whom would you choose?
California’s Blind Boy Paxton promises to whip us back in time to the days of ‘ragtime, ’20s jazz and Dust Bowl–era blues, delivering them through a dizzying display of virtuosity on guitar, piano, banjo, and lately, fiddle.’
His fiddle playing is certainly something to behold! Just get a load of this …
And there’s his humour and mannerism from that same bygone era …
He certainly has me smiling!
Well as any Canadian knows, those long cold winter nights in Manitoba creates some F&*^^%$# FANTASTIC music! And it would seem that St. Boniface’s Chic Gamine certainly fit that stereotype!
Described as ‘three angel-voiced girls plus one drummer boy’, I am admittedly questioning the ‘angelic’ with these smokey blues vocals …
Well … I do hear angelic in this tune …
… although I suspect most warm blooded Canadian males, at the hint of the French Canadian gal blues, are hoping these angelic voices come with devil’s horns!
So which stage would you pick???
I am happy for the Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival that they have been growing, adding on an extra stage and more acts. But your success, now causes me conundrums! Specifically choosing between the Garden Stage or the Westwood Stage. This presents a challenge in my day, as I want to take all the blues in, gosh darn it!!! (she says, fists clenched and stomping her feet – yes, you should fear me)
So in lieu of the ability to clone myself and simultaneously take in both experiences, I need your help in deciding how to plan my day. My first conundrum at Deer Lake Park in Burnaby from 1:45 – 2:30 pm is Miss Quincy (on the Garden Stage) or Rich Hope & His Evil Doers (on the Westwood Stage)?!?!?
Your thoughts? Here they both are:
Miss Quincy is one of our own, a good old (or young, in her case) Canadian gal with moxy, who ‘began her music career in the wild mountains of Northern BC with a knife strapped to her leg and guitar slung over her back.’ How can one not love the sound of that!
I mean … just get a load of her … I can’t even decide between her videos, so I am sharing a few!
Love the storytelling here!
Seriously! How can you not fall in love with this gal! Just watch this and try not to smile …
Rich Hope is not new to the Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival or to Vancouver, first setting foot on the Garden Stage in 2009, as a winner of a competition on Shore FM. And now he is back again! Hitting the Westwood Stage this time!
A man was once heard to say the evil comes and evil goes, but he was wrong. Evil never goes—it lingers, often for years, sometimes decades, on the rarest and best occasions growing in power. Such is the case with Rich Hope and His Evil Doers, the two-man quartet that ate Vancouver in the most evil way possible, starting way back in 2005.
“I see trouble …”
So which stage would you pick???
