We started in The Grassy Knoll watching Warming Up The Stage with Blaine Dunaway, Sweet SantaFe, Tracy Lynn & The Savage Hearts and Qristina Brooke. Qristina Brooke is a fiddler and singer who played traditional Irish, Old-Time American and French Canadian tunes! I loved her!!! Tracy Lynn & The Savage Hearts joined in for her last…
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Courtenay, Vancouver Island – Vancouver Island Musicfest – Day 4 – The Music – Part III – Sweet SantaFe
We started in The Grassy Knoll watching Warming Up The Stage with Blaine Dunaway, Sweet SantaFe, Tracy Lynn & The Savage Hearts and Qristina Brooke. Sweet SantaFe are a couple who sing authentic, romantic and uplifting music with Cuban influences. I enjoyed this couple. They inspired me to write music of my love for Michael…
Courtenay, Vancouver Island – Vancouver Island Musicfest – Day 4 – The Music – Part II – Blaine Dunaway
We started the festival off watching music in The Grassy Knoll watching Warming Up The Stage with Blaine Dunaway, Sweet SantaFe, Tracy Lynn & The Savage Hearts and Qristina Brooke. Blaine Dunaway is a violin, cello, trumpet and flugelhorn player from Comox Valley. He’s spent studio time with Eartha Kite, Mae Moore, and many more!…
Courtenay, Vancouver Island – Volunteering at Vancouver Island Musicfest – Day 4 – Part I
Today the music starts! I’m breaking this day into parts – so you can pick what you want to look at – which will probably be the music – so the musicians will get their own blogs! For those interested in the behind the scenes – Performer Services should be called – Backstage Food Services….
Courtenay, Vancouver Island – Volunteering at Vancouver Island Musicfest – Day 3
Today was the last full day of set up. Tomorrow the music begins! But first, I have to mention another difference between Courtenay and Halifax – NO MOSQUITOS OR BLACK FLIES!!!!!!! WHAT A TREAT!!!!!!!!!!! You can sit outside at night and not be eaten alive by bloodsucking insects!!!!! AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, back to the day! Let’s…