So last night was my first musical venture into my Okanagen Couch Concert Series. The drive from Calary to Kelowna was outraeously beautiful. The mountains were very humbling to drive through; Canada is so pretty. I was preparing myself mentally for a long, brooding trip but to be honest, I could have kept driving for another 8 hours! Anyways, when I finally arrived to the house I was playing at I was welcomed with extreme friendliess by a young couple doing fungi research for their PHDs at the university. However, as soon as I started unpacking the car I realized I was short a mic cable (of course....)... so my first hour on tour was spent zipping around Kelowna in a small panic looking for a cable....... I suppose my mental check list wasn't checked enough.
Kristin and David (my Kelowna hosts!) invited a group of their colleagues and friends also studying in the same field over to their backyard (I love playing outside!!) for a wine and cheese party! The backyard was filled with people from Sweden, America, Iran, Toronto, all over... it was a cool mix of folk. Unfortunately, the cops showed up with a noise complaint (high-school flashback..) so we re-located inside their quaint house!
The people listening were soo nice - after the show they took me out to Kelowna's lake and to a pub for locally brewed raspberry beer. YUM! If only Edmonton had a lake in the middle of it...
This morning I was greeted by home-made scones and coffee........
Not a terrible way to start my tour :)
Big thank you to all the master/doctor/post-doc students that came out to listen on a Monday night - your flair for talking about mushroom varieties was hilarious and endearing!
More later,
JT
Kristin and David (my Kelowna hosts!) invited a group of their colleagues and friends also studying in the same field over to their backyard (I love playing outside!!) for a wine and cheese party! The backyard was filled with people from Sweden, America, Iran, Toronto, all over... it was a cool mix of folk. Unfortunately, the cops showed up with a noise complaint (high-school flashback..) so we re-located inside their quaint house!
The people listening were soo nice - after the show they took me out to Kelowna's lake and to a pub for locally brewed raspberry beer. YUM! If only Edmonton had a lake in the middle of it...
This morning I was greeted by home-made scones and coffee........
Not a terrible way to start my tour :)
Big thank you to all the master/doctor/post-doc students that came out to listen on a Monday night - your flair for talking about mushroom varieties was hilarious and endearing!
More later,
JT