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“We’re All in the Same Canoe” – Murray Porter Shares His Wisdom Through the Blues

August 31, 2017 By Erica Hargreave Leave a Comment

Murray Porter at the 2017 Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival

Funny life's coincidences.  On a recent trip into our own backyard to Deer Lake and the Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival, we were serenaded by beautifully truthful words from a neighbour. Words that for a lifetime we've been learning as we travel the world. Everybody's different, but everybody's the same. Who was singing these words of wisdom?  My latest crush, Murray Porter, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All Aboard!, Around the World, BC, Canada, Erica Hargreave, Events, Music, Our Travelers, Perfect Dates, Roamancing, Roamancing the Soul, Specialty, The Red Boot Diaries, Travel TV, Tunes from the Road, Vancouver Events Tagged With: blues, blues music, Blues Musician, Burnaby, Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival

2015 Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival – Gearing Up For A Good Time!

July 29, 2015 By Emme Rogers Leave a Comment

2012 Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival

For 7 years now our summer highlight in Vancouver's Lower Mainland is the Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival, otherwise now known as my Birthday Bash! My friends love the Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival so much that they now place it on their calendars before they make their other plans for the summer, and it has even become the much anticipated and talked about summer … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All Aboard!, Around the World, BC, Canada, Emme Rogers, Events, Music, Our Travelers, Perfect Dates, Roamancing, Roamancing the Soul, Specialty, Travel TV, Tunes from the Road, Vancouver Events Tagged With: blues, blues and roots, Burnaby, Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival

How to Prepare for an Outdoor Music Festival: the One-Day Festival

August 10, 2012 By Emme Rogers 12 Comments

With Megan off in San Francisco at the Outside Lands Music Festival for the weekend, and Rob Jones, Erica, Alyzee and I all heading for the Burnaby Blues & Roots Festival tomorrow, I have music festivals on the brain tonight, along with what I need to do to prep for tomorrow.  So given that, c     I thought I'd write a post on preparing for the outdoor music festival, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All Aboard!, Emme Rogers, Events, Music, Our Travelers, Perfect Dates, Roamancing Tagged With: Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival, music festivals, outdoor festival

Birthday Celebrations & Travel Inspiration, Thanks to the Burnaby Blues & Roots Festival

July 26, 2012 By Emme Rogers 2 Comments

We have a long standing summer tradition at Ahimsa Media to celebrate our summer birthdays with those of us that happen to be in Vancouver at the time. You see three of our main team - myself, Alyzee Lakhani and Erica Hargreave all have summer birthdays, and often one of our seasonal storytellers also has a summer birthdays, like Hannia Curi this summer.  Back in the old days … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Africa, All Aboard!, Around the World, BC, Canada, Emme Rogers, Events, Music, Our Travelers, Perfect Dates, Roamancing, Travel TV, Tunes from the Road, Vancouver Events Tagged With: blues, Burnaby, Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival, Mali, travel inspiration

Whistler is on Fire this Labour Day Weekend with Jazz on the Mountain

August 31, 2011 By Emme Rogers 2 Comments

There are few things I love more than outdoor music festivals, and gentlemen take note, the ultimate in bliss for me is Jazz. So when I heard that Whistler was hosting it's first outdoor jazz festival this September Long Weekend (September 2-4, 2011), I started to make plans with my favourite man to dance with and the man that instilled a great love and appreciation for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All Aboard!, Around the World, BC, Canada, Emme Rogers, Events, Music, Our Travelers, Perfect Dates, Roamancing, Travel TV, Tunes from the Road Tagged With: Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival, dad, jazz, Whistler

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