The Wedding Crashers

On Saturday Zach and I played our first big gig together at a wedding on Stoney Lake. It was a pretty fancy affair, guests took pontoon boats from a marina to the church on an island on Stoney called Church on the Rock for the service, then got back onto the boats and headed to a cottage where the reception was held. Zach and I played during the socializing period at the reception while boats were ferrying people over to enjoy the bar, and the wedding party got their pictures done. We played for around and hour and a half with around 15 songs in our repertoire. We sounded pretty good for the amount of practice we put in, and the guests said they really enjoyed our music. One of the guests was an actor in Spring Tonic at Showplace, which Fyd-L-Styx played at, and he spread the word to the guests about Fyd-L-Styx Band, which gave the band even more publicity. It won’t be too long before Fyd-L-Styx is huge, and hopefully it doesn’t happen before I go.

Today was Anniversary Sunday at church, the church is now 173 years old, and we had a special service. The “3 C’s” and a Zach played twice during the service, which gave Zach and I the honour of not only being wedding crashers for the weekend, but anniversary spoilers as well. It was the Stark’s year to tell the congregation a bit about the Stark history in the church, where a few great Stark stories were told, but not the best ones, I guess Mum and Grandma omitted them.

This coming Saturday is Canada Day and the Fyd-L-Styx band is putting a float in the Peterborough parade. We also get 10 minutes of fame on the stage at Del Crary, where the music world’s washed up musicians play (like that Davy Jones dude from the Monkees that was there on Saturday night), I hope its not a sign. The weather seems like it might be sketchy with a 70% of rain and maybe even a thunderstorm, but there is still time for it to improve. However it still better not rain the parade, especially Canada’s parade.

Playing For Parker

On Saturday evening, Fyd-L-Styx played at a benefit concert for a little boy, named Parker, who suffers from Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID). As usual, Dale and I occupied the back corner but this time with the newest member of Fyd-L-Styx band, Zach, in between us. Zach is the so called replacement for me when I leave for Katimavik at the end of September. He will be taking over my part in the Wabash Orange Special Cannonball, fast songs that only a minority of the band can play, and of course my spot right beside Dale. I’m not too sure of Dale’s exact opinion of Zach, but I think it was similar to mine on that night: the shy Zach is better then the live wire Zach. But Zach is an excellent player though, and him and I have a couple of gigs at weddings to do this summer.

I am down to 99 days until I leave for Katimavik, which is quiet shocking, as 36 days have passed since I had found out that I had been accepted. When I think of all the things that are going to be going on this summer, Leahy Camp, work, Ploughing Match, playing at the two weddings, and not to forget about the shopping and packing for the bloody trip, it is going to feel like a very short summer.

This week is going to be Exam Week, I got three exams for my three classes: Politics on Monday, English on Wednesday, and Computers on Thursday.