I was listening and thinking and I even wrote a post last Thursday on the Wilderness of Manitoba at the River and Sky festival that I decided it'd be pretty neat to see them live again. I checked out their Myspace page and realized that they only had one upcoming show which was happening in, get this, three hours at the Horseshoe Tavern! So I went with two of my friends who can be just as spontaneous and reckless as yours truly. (Oil always finds itself).
The girl opening for them totally blew the crowd away. She can sing, she can write and she can play a mean acoustic guitar and harmonica. Her name is Olenka, she is Polish and rad. Check her out. Seriously, your standards when it comes to musicians will be raised by 10.
Ran into a few people from River and Sky festival, one of them being Bobby. I think he's a music journalist for some magazine or something. Anyways, he shared some horrible news. RIVER AND SKY FEST IS NO LONGER! And it's all because of the Tom Petty Van Jam Session.
Allow me to explain to you what the Tome Petty Van Jam Session is. It occurred on Saturday night of the festival when everyone decided it was an in-genius idea to dance on the band vans (including the band members), set off firecrackers, pass bottles of whiskey around and sing Tom Petty at the top of our lungs. Later this escalated to running through the forest and dancing around fires and pretty much having the best time ever. But I guess the people that lived in trailers on the grounds didn't think that it was the best time ever and complained, which led to the demise of River and Sky. At least on those grounds.
So here are a few pictures from the most awesome festival because I feel nostalgic and I think that I probably already posted these a few months ago but really, who's going to scroll through all the pages when I can just present them to you right now.
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| the moment that ended it all |
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| fire |
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| Everyone was disappointed that they didn't fall |
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| Leech city |
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| Trippin' |