2008: The Year of Music

I know it is rather late to do a New Year's recap of the past year, but here goes any (its my blog and I'll recap if I want to, recap if I want to...).


2008 was a spectacular year for me and live music. I saw an incredible amount of live music for the first time in many years.

February Winterlude: Joel Plaskett & the Emergency

March:Evita (not so great)

May (Tulip Festival): The Mighty Popo

June (Ottawa Jazz Festival): Salif Keita, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra

July (Canada Day on Parliament Hill): Blue Rodeo

July Cisco Ottawa BluesFest: Matt Mays and El Torpedo, Secret Machines, Fiftymen, The Tragically Hip, Sean Kingston, Wintersleep, Orchestra Baobab, Feist, The Cooper Brothers, Matthew Good Band, James Taylor, Jully Black, Jason Collett, Most Serene Republic, Stars, Kathleen Edwards, 3 Days Grace, Mighty Popo, Crash Parallel, Plain White T's, Akon, Wyclif Jean, Anders Osborne, Sam Roberts Band, Donna Summer and many others.

August (The Ottawa Folk Festival): Ana Miura, Sarah Harmer, Catherine MacLellan, Lynn Miles, Wil, Dala, James Hill, The Duhks, The D Rangers and others.

September, Cirque du Soleil Corteo (featured some amazing music!)

November: Stars at the Bronson Centre

December: Stuart McLean's Vinyl Cafe Christmas with Dala at the National Arts Centre.

A bird in the hand....

should be worth far more than two in the bush.

Favourite quotes, part ???

Ooh! Two posts in one day - how prolific of me!

Another amusing quote I came across this week.


"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."

- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

Down, down, DOW

Heard on David Letterman's monologue this week:

"The Dow Jones hit 6000.

Do you know what that means?

No?

Neither do I."