These are the DVDs I listened to in my car during Advent/Christmas, listed in no particular order. I also listened to LPs at home, especially Christmas at the Red Lion (& New Year's Too).
Love Actually Soundrack
Gold City: Home For the Holidays
Christmas at the Pops
Christmas, a Festival of Carols & Readings
God With Us (Sparrow Artists 1997)
Vinyl Cafe (Dave Cooks the Turkey)
Starlite Pop Orchestra: 25 all time Christmas favorites
The Sounds of the Season ('N Sync, Crash Test Dummies etc.)
Messiah (the Prophecy & Nativity bits)
Lost Dogs: We Like to Have Christmas
Bruce Cockburn: christmas
The Beatmas: XMAS!
Christmas With the Bradys
Steve Bell: Keening For the Dawn
Bob Dylan: Christmas in the Heart
DVD of Mixed Tape (Bing, Nat, McKenzie Bros, Carpenters, Serena [American friend] etc.)
The links below will take you to various posts marked with that particular "label" (usually with pictures or videos) in my blog. They will appear in reverse chronological order.
This will mean that, as I continue to post in 2020 and beyond, you will have to scroll down to find 2019.
My paid work this year included Crossing Guard, Standardized Patient at the Northern Ontario Medical School (c. once a month Sept. - May), Sexton (caretaker) for Gathering Table Anglican Church, and Music Care at Pioneer Ridge Home (twice a month, and occasionally with an individual in his home). As well, I have accompany the Pope John Paul II School Choir for masses etc.
Other occasional paid gigs include modeling for figure artists, teaching guitar, and backstage work as a Dresser for touring shows at the TB Community Auditorium.
I continue to sing as a volunteer at Pinewood Court and Pioneer Ridge, as well as every second week at St. Thomas Anglican's Community Meal. See the music section below for other gigs, such as open mics.
I am now the Past President and a Life Member of Cambrian Players, and my theatre involvement is described below, including many Cambrian Improv shows. My volunteer camp work is described below as well.
I also belong to the Square Book Club, which meets monthly (approximately), which includes Keri, Tamara, Anne, Natalie, Katrina, Tim, and Bryan. (Sometimes we call it "Food Club".)
Both St. Luke's and St. John's Anglican parishes closed last year. Members of each (and others) have come together as Gathering Table Anglican meeting in the building of the former St. John's. I am employed there part-time as Sexton (i.e. caretaker). Last Christmas I started singing with New Song for the "contemporary"* songs, and later with the choir for those in the blue book.
The link above will take you to various musical events. For my own gigs, click here. Most of these are Open Mic sessions at Cheer's Pub, pictured above.
I have also been updating a page of my gigs here going back to the early days, though I'm not sure why. Due to Tbaytel problems, I've not been able to update it recently.
Not much recording this year, but I did finally make a lyric vid for this old song of mine, which was regaining popularity at the open mics. And then Don was fired & the segment discontinued.:
And check out this video from 2017:
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Most of the posts are from Cambrian Players Improv shows. I also helped with the three scripted plays this season, including acting in Anastasia, pictured above (I'm on the left [stage right].)
There are pictures from the 10x10 Play Showcase as well, in which I was an actor.
From my visit there this year for Christmas-in-July.
NOTE: This year I continued to digitize and uploade many of the old Dorion slides (2002 and before). Click
here and scroll down for the appropriate year (and other souvenirs and related items).
I gave Mum her present just before driving her to church:
At church (Gathering Table Anglican) I was recruited to bring the reading from Hebrews. We joined in the after-service coffee time, as our lunch, and then spent the afternoon napping at my Mum's. Supper was at the Suttons' house, full of people, food, and dogs.
At last night's Christmas Eve Service for Gathering Table Anglican Church, I sang Bruce Cockburn's "Cry of a Tiny Babe". (In this picture I am actually singing a stanza of the self-contradictory "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence").
Bruce's original:
I sing it faster than Bruce does. Thus mine did not last 7.5 minutes!
