October 6th - Guelph - Planet Bean Coffee

I dropped by Guelph again, but this time to play a coffee shop. I didn't get there in time to have a dinner with Brent, but he did drop by the show and we hung out there. First up was a high school band, and it was the first time I'd ever heard a cello ripping blues solos. Kudos! THEN...another duo called Tiger Suit (that do a lot of school gigs) did some interesting things: they blended folk and electronica while throwing in different types of world music. In the photo below, the one guys is doing Nepalese throat singing while his partner plays jazzy keys, and would occasionally switch to singing in Japanese and playing one of their traditional instruments. Super cool evening!

October 2nd - Guelph - House Concert

The next day I headed out to my friend Brent Coleman's in Guelph for a house concert. I stopped in at the UofGuelph to drop off a CD for the campus paper, but found them to be closed. However, I've always appreciated the beauty of that city, having been there several times now. Here's an example of how nice and aged the campus looks (I'm sure it being fall had something to do with it too!).
The house concert went well, and I met up with some more Thunder Bay ex-pats, and ended up hanging out with Brent well into the night, talking about love, life and music. I also grabbed some mp3 files of some songs he had been working on around the same time I had finished my EP at the same studio. Solid stuff!