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...]
2015 Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival – Gearing Up For A Good Time!
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...]
How to Prepare for an Outdoor Music Festival: the One-Day Festival
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...]
Birthday Celebrations & Travel Inspiration, Thanks to the Burnaby Blues & Roots Festival
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...]
Whistler is on Fire this Labour Day Weekend with Jazz on the Mountain
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...]
