bruno, sk
wow.
drove from saskatoon to bruno. in short, (cause it’s an amazing long story), this wonderful gent moved to bruno, sk (population a few hundred) and bought this house on main street that has a little storefront that he uses as a consignment shop and espresso bar and as canada’s smallest venue! tyler cooked us an amazing pasta dinner and after the show we stayed up super late gettin’ inspired by his story and his ideas for bruno. he just recently bought the royal bank building a few doors up from him for $25 and he is converting it into a bigger space for arts/live music. tyler awarded us with an engraved plate with our name on it and an etching of all citzens on it for making it out to bruno, sk (see picture above!)can’t wait to come back and visit and play again! thanks to tyson from slow down molasses for making the trek with his friends out to see us! we also convinced him to play a couple songs and he did a sweet version of new partner by will oldham.
host with the most:
the weirdest part was when we were packing our car this dude kept driving by in his truck. he literally drove by 50 times… probably more actually, playing loud music and staring at us. pretty funny:
also, as we were loading our car this pleasant lady walked by and said hello and said “it must be hard to sleep in that car” cause i guess she had read our blog and recognized us and saw that we had slept in the car. we thought that was pretty rad. hi nice lady from bruno, sk if you’re still reading this!!!!
from bruno we drove to riding mountain national park and camped out, had a fire, sipped coldies.
beautiful spot but man oh man, to camp one night, with a bundle of firewood, came to $55!!!! same price as a motel. what gives?
glad we did it… but that kind of fee makes a broke, touring musician contemplate the walmart parking lot solution a lot more!!!
woke up and had a nice brekkie at uncle toms.
hit winnipeg and played an instore at music traders.
here is a picture from the perspective of our friend Archer:
then we went and had a campfire at michael and michelle’s beautiful house and stayed up late playing wii baseball after. i hurt my arm a bit and my ego, as michael crushed the jays with his almighty twins.
woke up in the morning and went to mondragon for brekkie.
met up with these dorks:
then we bid them farewell, they’re off to play brandon, mb tonite and then we re-unite tomorrow night in thunder bay for a couple more shows before we’re home. myspace.com/forestcitylovers
sylvie and i put josephine down for a wee nap in the afternoon and then drove over to our friend neil’s house. he did the artwork for the evening hymns t-shirts so we wanted to drop a couple off to him. he was getting his next show ready for switzerland. i want all of these:
here’s some of his incredible work: http://www.royalartlodge.com/
after this we went for argentinian gelato and then home to beagle HQ:
gave this little dude a quick belly rub to get him gigglin’ and we were out the door to freud’s bathhouse and diner for our show tonite!
here’s the invite:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102649656456795&ref=ts
oh and that brown hat i’m wearing in all those pictures is my new hat. i’ve been searching for that hat for over a year. happy to finally have found it in winnipeg.
okay, soundcheck time and then sleep, and then thunder bay for more saunas and coldies.
be well,
jb
