A Great End to a Great Week!

Jesse Roper playing at the IBC Canadian Showcase

As far as week’s go, this past week has been pretty damn fantastic ~ enjoying my first music pilgrimage into the history of Rock & Roll and the Blues in Memphis, discovering some bloody fantastic Blues talent at the International Blues Challenge, cheering Canadian Ross Neilsen on in the Semi-Finals of the International Blues Challenge, and coming home to discover some simply beautiful music that Chris Blake has written for Roamancing.  Now to top it all off, I went to pull the name of a winner for Studio 58‘s Julius Caesar tickets and was thrilled to pull Kelly Lui’s name, who interned with Ahimsa Media this past summer.  To make this especially fantastic, I went to congratulate Kelly and discovered it was her birthday!  Happy Birthday Kelly!

For those that entered, but didn’t win, we are entering you for a second chance at the tickets on Roamancing’s site.  For anyone unaware of the contest, that wishes they’d entered, you can still do that on Roamancing’s site until midnight.  Just drop us a comment with which Shakespeare play you would most love to see as a gender bender (ie. with men and women playing opposite gender role). Here’s a little of what you can expect from the play:

 

 

Catch this gender bender of a Julius Caesar at Studio 58 in Vancouver, February 2nd – 26th, Tuesdays – Saturdays at 8 pm and Saturdays & Sundays at 3 pm. Tickets can be purchased here.

Doing Flips for Memphis and the International Blues Challenge

This pretty much sums up how I feel about roamancing Memphis this week, especially with the International Blues Challenge on:

 

 

Loving the Blues, Southern hospitality and good ol’ Southern home cooking!

Kisses,

Emme  xoxo (with an extra long smooch for the Sleep Inn at Courtyard Square for ensuring I get my beauty sleep)

Lucy Duck RAWKS out to Tunes from the Road with Ross Neilsen

For those of you that have been following along with my adventures Roamancing, you may have already met Ross Neilsen & the Sufferin’ Bastards from my #CrossCanada road trip this Autumn, and Lucy Duck whose flown in to join us on the road from the UK.  You may also be aware that the first adventure we took Lucy roamancing on was to catch the tail end of the Sufferin’ Bastards #CrossCanada Autumn Tour at the Oasis in Cobourg, Ontario. And one Hell of a good night of RAWK it was, as the boys schooled Lucy in a bit of Bad Boy Canadian Blues with Anyway I Can.

 

 

We didn’t know it at the time, but this was the boys third last performance together.  So glad we caught it, as they were damn fine. Looking forward to seeing and hearing what comes next with Ross Neilsen Music.  Might call for another road trip for Lucy and I!

Kisses,

Emme  xoxo

Lighting Up a Wet Winter Night with a Few Sufferin’ Bastards

Nothing like a few Sufferin’ Bastards to light up a wet winter night, and that my friends is what you’ll find at the Oasis in Cobourg, Ontario tonight.

 

 

Which means an evening road trip for little ol’ moi, as these are the Blues Boys I met road tripping #CrossCanada.  Can’t have Ross Neilsen & the Sufferin’ Bastards playing so close and not go to see them live … where would the love in that be.

If you aren’t able to catch them tonight, here are a few of their other stops on their way home to New Brunswick:

 

Kisses,

 

Emme xoxo

Oh Thank Goodness. Emma is Still a Kid on Christmas Day, Not a Leiren-Young Alien.

Oh thank Goodness, she is a normal kid after all:

That said, clearly her musical tastes cannot be left in her uncle’s hands.  Mark – she’s coming to the Burnaby Blues & Roots Festival with Rob and I this summer. Justin Beiber!?!  Really that’s what you’re exposing her to?  Clearly it’s time Rob Jones and I start her music education on the indie scene.