the dust of everyday life."
-Berthold Auebach
"Music is what feelings sound like."
-Author Unknown
"There is nothing in the world
so much like prayer as music is."
-William P. Merrill
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My little MUSIC loving Munchkins on route to the very first FREE concert in the park at this year's JAZZ FESTIVAL! |
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Mariah and Beau just before heading to the Jazz Festival on Friday. Beau has a cookie for each hand... so he is all sweetened up! |
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... and some ice cream cones at the festival for more sweetness!!! hehehe Listening to "Oral Fuentes" in the free stage at Friendship Park. |
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Mariah showing off her crafty bracelet and anklet that her poppa bought her at the festival on Friday! |
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Mariah getting a sparkly tattoo of cherries at the festival Friday night! |
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Earlier Friday I was out for a lunch with my dancing buddy, Brenda at ROCK CREEK TAP and GRILL for a nice lunch in the sunshine on their deck. |
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A little pic of my friend, ELLA with me in the park at some free jazz on Saturday afternoon. We heard Dean McNeil Septet and Stone Frigate Big Band. |
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Ella and I picked up a STARBUCKS to go with our little Jazz fest experience... they go together perfectly! |
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Later Saturday I enjoyed the SITTER'S SCHOOL OF DANCE year end recital with my eye doctor, Lori and her daughter, Leah... (who used to dance with me a few years ago!) |
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Sunday I enjoyed some relaxing JAZZ by soloist, BOB EVANS in the beautiful Garden Architecture setting. |
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I noticed this cute little ANGEL ornament and had a photo with it ... like an ANGEL sitting on each shoulder! (which is how I always feel at the Jazz fest, especially now with both my parents in heaven!) |
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The above photo was taken by former dance student, SARAH, who was working at the festival. Here she is with her parents in the Garden Architecture venue. |
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I also enjoyed THE BASSMENT BIG BAND in Friendship park sunday afternoon, too... followed by the "MAURICE DROUIN SHOW" called Summertime, at Dakota Dunes in the evening with hubby, Brian! FABULOUS SHOW and dinner, too. |
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Monday I listened to some cool laid back tunes by "The DOUG BOOMHOWER TRIO" in the heat of the free downtown stage, once again with my friend, Ella! |
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I also enjoyed Dixie Plus at this stage earlier monday... and here is "THE JAMIE DONLEVYSEXTET" as seen with favorites Maurice Drouin and Bobby Klassen. who performed at 5. |
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Monday at 7 in the free park there was a performance by "BRECKER BROTHER'S TRIBUTE" which featured a little "FLASH MOB" choreographed by Shannon Miko! Today as I sit with my french vanilla coffee out of my red and white polka dot mug I am really thinking the advice in my cup is true! It states... "LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT" This is one of my most favorite times of year, because it is filled with the things that make my life special. Those things revolve around one big ingredient and that is MUSIC! This is now the end of the DANCE RECITAL season in Saskatoon and now the beginning of the JAZZ FESTIVAL in town which I always love! Both of those events revolve around MUSIC, too! I made it to 6 Dance Recitals this season and hope to take in lots of the free jazz in and around Saskatoon during our 26th annual JAZZ FESTIVAL. I am always so impressed with the DANCE as well as MUSICAL talents living in our city. There is a fabulous ARTS community here. My mom and dad instilled a real love of MUSIC and DANCE in me from little on... and I am ever so grateful they did. Although they are both in HEAVEN now... it is as if they were sitting on my shoulders as I enjoy the music at the Jazz festival, which we used to attend together when they were both still here! A couple of our favorite local artists are piano player, MAURICE DROUIN, And Sax /clarinet player, BOBBY KLASSEN. I enjoyed them in 2 events so far at the first few days of Jazz Festing. They played at both my parents' funerals, so they hold a dear spot in my heart... and they are so extremely talented, too. As the next few days unfold I hope to hear these two along with many others sharing their talents for MUSIC as they play at various venues in and around the city. Today is my UNCLE CHARLIE'S Birthday... so I wish him a special one. Mom's second birthday in HEAVEN will be on Friday... so I am hoping some one will play her favorite song that day... SATIN DOLL! On that note... I am off to hear more free jazz in the park, and am hoping the rain is not coming again... it has been so sunny so far! I got the MUSIC in me... It goes with all I do... I love so many kinds of it, It fills me through and through! The JAZZ that's played in the park, at festival is free, I love to sit out in the sun, or under the shade of a tree! Nothing like free music to lift the spirit and soul, That is what it does for me, like EAR CANDY in a bowl! Whether I am walking my dog to the ipod SHUFFLE! Or out amongst the festival, enjoying the JAZZ KERFLUFFLE... MUSIC is the soundtrack to my daily life each day, That's just how I like it, wouldn't have it any other way! Music is the thread that sews everything together, And goes so very nicely in any kind of weather! I feel very blessed to live in pretty Saskatoon... And listen to the talents of our city as they croon! |
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