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What in the HECK happened with Scotsman, Dominion, and Dwight during the Great Gathering?!

(Also, since Dutchess of Hamilton has also been to the US during the 1939 NY World’s Fair, did she get involved?)

Warning - extremely long post below

So, first of all, Duchess of Hamilton never went back to the UK.

Duchess of Hamilton (6229) and Coronation (6220) had their nameplates swapped by the LMS when an engine was sent over to the US. 6229, in the guise of 6220, went to the US.

Streamlined locomotives were all the rage at the time, and railroads practically fell over themselves to get Coronation (as she was now known) onto press trains. The B&O railroad in particular was so impressed with her capabilities that they extended a formal offer of employment to her for service on their streamlined Royal Blue service. The LMS were surprised to get an offer to "purchase" their locomotive, but accepted nonetheless, as it meant a welcome infusion of cash in the dark days during the beginning of WWII.

Coronation fit right in with the Americans, having only been about a year old when she was sent to New York. Following the end of steam traction on the Royal Blue in the late 40s, (the B&O were early adopters of diesels.) she and her B&O coworkers found good employment on the New York Central, where she still runs to this day.

Since then, she's fully "gone native", marrying a J3 Hudson, (yes one of the streamlined ones) adopting both an American accent and three children, and being fully repainted to NYC silver by 1956. Flying Scotsman met her in Albany in 1970, and neither one of them recognized the other.

Actually, most UK expats don't recognize her, to the point where a common interaction is for her to be held up as an example of "look at her, she's integrated well into the US", only for the British engines to say "that's preposterous, she isn't English".

When it's pointed out that she's still obviously an LMS Coronation, the next response is usually screaming.

All that being said, she has no interest to come back to the United Kingdom, and wasn’t asked by the NRM anyways.

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Second of all, the Great Gathering was... an event.

So, there are (officially) 6 preserved Gresley A4s.

Mallard - static, National Railway Museum (UK). Also an asshole.

Bittern - running, private owner, UK based

Sir Nigel Gresley - running, owned by a trust, UK based

Union of South Africa - running, private owner, UK based

Dwight D. Eisenhower - static (officially), National Railway Museum (USA)

Dominion of Canada - static (officially), Exporail (Montréal)

This is the official list, and for the first 4 engines, it's the truth.

However, things are a bit hazier on the other side of the Atlantic...

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So the thing that needs to be made clear right up front that in a sentient vehicle world, museums aren't like the NRM, where locomotives sit static for years on end, although obviously the English have museums like that because of course they do.

Rail museums in the rest of the world are much more like Colonial Williamsburg - a living history center staffed by volunteers who act out a prototypical setting from [insert decade here].

British Rail, being British Rail, didn’t know that and didn’t care.

4496, Dwight D. Eisenhower, having been named after the General-turned-President, had been earmarked for preservation by BR, and was summarily shipped off to the US National Railway Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

In an entirely unintentional move, this donation MONUMENTALLY snubbed the Smithsonian, who refused to have any dealings with BR for decades, even for archival purposes. This, combined with the fallout from Operation Smash Hit, and the fact that the Smithsonian is Petty AF, meant that there was virtually no official trans-Atlantic cooperation between British and US museums for decades.

Dwight hit the shores of the US in 1964 New York City and was greeted by a marching band, a ticker-tape parade, and Presidents Johnson and Eisenhower, who were on-hand to personally make the engine a US citizen.

Always keen to curry favor with the government, the Southern Pacific railroad had a job offer waiting for Dwight right alongside the Presidents and the parade, and when he accepted, he went off to Sunny Southern California - someplace so opposed to Britain the he fell in love with the place immediately and refused to leave!

The ladies may have also had something to do with it as well - while most engine classes fell into a typical 50-50 gender distribution, the SP GS-4 class was all female...

[Pictured above - one of 28 very good reasons to live in California if you're a single British steam engine.]

Dwight does not kiss and tell, but at his wedding in 1974, all 28 GS-4s showed up - and he was only marrying one of them!

Since the 70's, he's become a mainstay in California, having been repainted into Daylight Limited colors in 1969, and retiring from railroad duties in 1999. After that, he went into the movie business, and is currently the head of digital media development at Disney.

His wife Irene (SP 4437) is also an interesting figure as well - following in the wheelmarks of the great female locomotives before her, she had an eye for business and a Stanford education before she married her husband, and was an initial investor in multiple tech companies in Silicon Valley during the 70's and 80's, but stopped doing that after her investment in Apple proved very lucrative. In 1996, she was convinced by a few people in the Stanford Alumni association to invest in another tech startup, this one an "internet search engine" called Google.

So yeah, Dwight Eisenhower kept falling up and up and up all his life, and is now married to the richest woman in the world.

4489 Dominion of Canada was donated mostly by accident, having been forgotten in the back of Darlington sheds until 1966, when she was shipped off to the Canadian Railway Historical Society in Montreal.

As stated elsewhere, the Canadian Government considered any locomotive built in the UK to have UK citizenship, and therefore treated them as commonwealth citizens under existing Canadian law. (remember that Canada was still a colony at that time)

CN, the national rail carrier, was obligated to offer her a job under their charter, and she accepted, moving to Toronto to run intercity trains between Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa.

Within two years she was displaced from those duties by the introduction of a new, shiny, jet turbine powered train, and was summarily demoted to local commuter runs in the Toronto suburbs.

Moving to suburbia did one thing more than anything else - expose her to the people who live there. They all had complaints, they all had problems, and they all had no idea on how to fix them.

Being a helpful sort, Dominion decided that she could help, and promptly ran for Toronto city council in 1974. She won, and has been a fixture in local Toronto politics ever since - she even got to be Chairwoman of Metro Toronto (the closest thing to being mayor because Toronto's governmental structure is weird) until 1998, when Toronto was merged with the surrounding area to create a massive new region.

Having then done everything there is to do in municipal Toronto government, Dominion went on to become the Chief Executive Officer of Metrolinx, the agency that controls almost all of the transit agencies in Ontario, because, as she puts it, "I'm still a commuter engine at heart".

She's now painted in the current GO Transit paint scheme, and still does commuter runs- which is really weird looking now that there are double deck commuter coaches in a push-pull configuration, with a Gresley A4 doing the pushing.

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Now, I mentioned that those 6 were the only ones officially preserved - there were two unofficial preservations as well...

4486 Merlin was properly Shanghied - he was yanked off the docks in Southhampton by a cargo ship in August of 1965, and was spirited away to parts unknown.

Those unknown parts turned out to be South Korea. There, he was given citizenship by the US-aligned military dictatorship (Korean history is wild) and was employed by the State-run rail operator.

As the military government began a hardcore plan to increase their country's wealth and industrial output, rail lines were being built across the country, and Merlin was soon awarded a position on the fastest train in the network, the Seoul-Busan Saemaeul-ho.

Because of his experience in running high-speed express trains, Merlin not only became the public face of Korean high-speed rail, but also became an "honored elder" amongst the other Korean engines, a position he still holds to this day - as despite being over 70 years old, he still runs daily trains on the fast services, easily keeping time with the Korean schedules as well as training the new high speed trains, including the KTX sets. He's on his 24th boiler by now, and has more parts from Hyundai than Doncaster.

An additional fact - Merlin actually has had a linguistic effect on Korean railroading, as his strange amalgamation of an accent - a strong Yorkshire accent that tried to be Received Pronunciation for 30 years, mixed with almost 50 years of middle-to-upper-class Korean - has filtered down through the ranks of KoRail, because all of his students want to sound like him out of respect. Human British expats in Korea will occasionally hear a locomotive speaking in English, and the engine will sound like a Yorkshireman every time and the Brits cannot handle it.

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4495 Golden Fleece is the only A4 to preserve himself - he saw the writing on the wall in the early 60s, and hopped a car ferry to France at the end of 1962. From there, he bounced around Europe for a bit before making it to the United States in the late 70's.

Of the 8 surviving A4s, he's probably led the quietest life of all - he moved to Miami before it got nice, and basically got in on the ground floor of CSX when that merger happened in 1980. He's now the head of terminal operations for the Port of Miami, but he's generally kept a low profile - not even having a chance to meet Scotsman due to his time in Europe.

He's still in contact with Dwight and Dominion, and has no real bitterness over not being "famous" like they are - he likes the quiet, and still lives in a modest house in Boynton Beach with his long-term girlfriend.

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Soooo... the Great Gathering.

It was supposed to be a meeting of the 6 surviving A4s - a two year event held at the NRM in honor of the 75th anniversary of Mallard's record-setting run.

"Record setting" is a past-tense term here. While there have been no official runs, every single one of the Pennsylvania Railroad's T1 and S1 locomotives claim to have gone faster than 126 without meaning to, and numerous other locomotives on unofficial attempts done late at night on flat stretches of land across the country have hit 130+.

British Expats have also done better than 126 - Coronation claims to have hit at least 140 on a midnight mail train in 1980, and in Korea, Merlin claims to have hit 128 on a test train, although that was judged by timing mile markers as his speedometer wasn't functioning properly.

Problems arose before any of the engines had even reached the NRM, as Mallard's already sizeable ego had swelled to massive proportions, and several engines in the great hall were planning a justifiable homicide.

Then came the time restraints - none of the foreign locomotives were willing to uproot their lives and jobs for two years just to sit motionless in a shed. A two year exhibition was eventually negotiated down to a 6 month gala, much to the irritation and confusion of the NRM, who could not understand that the engines were still in service.

Then came the extra engines - Dwight and Dominion thought that the NRM knew about Fleece, and were quite insulted on his behalf when he wasn't invited - they threatened to not attend unless arrangements were made for Fleece to attend as well.

An utterly baffled NRM agreed, but also tore their record archives apart, as they knew that Fleece had been scrapped. The fact that his picture was plastered all over CSX's Florida Division website was all the more confusing as a result.

Meanwhile in Busan, nobody knew that Merlin had escaped the scrappers' torch and therefore did not invite him. He was only informed after K-Pop star Psy texted him from London to ask if he knew about the event, which was being advertised on television.

Merlin, having missed his friends from the LNER, decided that he would just crash the party, used some of his many vacation days, and took off for England on a cargo ship.

By sheer coincidence, all four foreign A4s hit the dock in Southhampton on the same day, and were delighted to see each other - especially Merlin, considering that everyone else had thought he'd died.

Meanwhile at the NRM, delight was not the word one would use. Befuddled, confused, shocked even, but not delighted. Their plans had revolved around 6 A4s, most of which wouldn’t be running - only to now discover that there were 7, all but one of which were functioning! (Mallard, the star of the show, was the odd one out, and it drove him crazy)

Then they got a phone call from their man at the docks saying that another one had showed up, looking like he’d driven out of a K-pop album cover, and they just gave up and started screaming.

Screaming is also what happened when the cavalcade of foreigners showed up in York - first of all, the quartet of new engines sounded nothing like they had when they left England.

Dwight had willfully unlearned his Upper Crust British accent by 1971, and had fallen deep into a California accent (quite similar to what Scotsman sounds like - coincidence? No.)

Dominion and Fleece hadn’t tried to unlearn their accents, but 40+ years of living in North America can really dilute the Britishness. It doesn’t help that Dominion has developed most Canadian vocal tics eh?

As stated above, Merlin has a weird fuckin accent, and now he speaks English with a strong Yorkshire accent, but will occasionally and without warning drop into a Korean/Yorkshire hybrid accent.

The screaming also happened because the NRM had wanted to repaint the duo trio! quartet?! into LNER garter blue, and were promptly informed that “we’re painted like this for work! Don’t touch it!” (the sole exception was Dwight, who hadn’t pulled a real train in 14 years, but he liked his Daylight Limited paint), so instead of the new arrivals showing up in LNER colours, they showed up looking like THIS:

Having their long-lost siblings show up looking and sounding like THAT had quite an affect on the A4s and the other NRM engines:

Bittern could not believe her eyes - to the point where she actually began making noise about seeing an optometrist

Union of South Africa almost backed through a wall

Sir Nigel Gresley was speechless for two days

Mallard was so angry that he actually chipped a tooth during one of his rants about “the impropriety of it all!!”

Evening Star laughed so hard that he managed to derail himself without moving

City of Truro almost cracked a piston from shock

Alycidon spent the entire gala coming up with more and more laser focused jabs at Mallard - who was so easy to fluster that the Deltic needn’t have bothered

Oliver Cromwell and Green Arrow made fast friends with the new arrivals, and spent the entire time learning ‘Americanisms’ to annoy the other engines with.

But what about Flying Scotsman? Where was he in all of this? He was generally considered to be the “leader” of the NRM fleet (much to Mallard’s annoyance), and was usually who the other engines turned to when things started getting out of control.

Did Scotsman calm things down? Like hell he did. The inmates were running the asylum from the moment that Scotsman saw the other A4s - more importantly saw Dwight - and immediately greeted them in flawless Californian.

This actually set off the building’s security alarm, as Flying Scotsman saying “DUDES! Wassup?!” caused such an uproar that the noise broke several exterior windows.

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And all of this was in the first few days - there were six months left to go.

There was one railtour attempt. It was supposed to feature Bittern and Sir Nigel running in tandem, but instead featured Dwight and Merlin, mainly because Bittern wanted to see what would happen.

They exceeded the max speed limit for steam traction within 15 minutes, sparked a thorough investigation by the RAIB, and got all future steam powered railtours for the Gathering cancelled immediately.

On the plus side, the two engines did prove that it was still possible for a steam train to hit 100 safely.

One thing that baffled the other engines was the inordinately large number of people who turned up just to see Dominion, and the one person who kept turning up to see Fleece - it took a lot of explaining for them to understand that Dominion had been married three times, and had children (adopted) and grandchildren from all three marriages coming to see her. A similar amount of explaining was required to explain that Fleece’s girlfriend/partner wanted to see him too.

The normally chatty Dwight and Scotsman would suddenly clam up whenever Dominion and Fleece teasingly tried to ask about their love lives, something which wasn’t unnoticed by the other engines, but got similarly nowhere.

The answer to why they both shut the hell up was explained when a lot of shouting broke out in the yard of the NRM one day about a month into the exhibition:

Irene Eisenhower, not content to sit in California and count her billions, quickly grew bored without her husband, and decided to go to England and be with him. The fact that she definitely did not fit the UK loading gauge was never even a consideration, and so she just showed up in York on the back of a lorry, having informed no-one of her arrival, and content to just pay off the requisite people if a fuss occurred.

A fuss did occur, and it was only ended when Scotsman managed to convince the museum’s curator (who at this point in his life was regretting ever thinking of this damned gathering) that Irene was a ‘temporary donation’ to the museum.

[Scotsman, who definitely hid his Cali accent from museum staff the entire time, has one of the best poker faces in the world]

Dwight was overjoyed, and so was Scotsman, for initially unclear reasons. Then Irene managed to grab both her husband and Scotsman, dragged them behind a shed, and [THIS IS A PG13 HEADCANON] the both of [PG13]. Turns out that while Scotsman may have slept his way across the US a few times, he was actually ready to settle down with Dwight and Irene - they were a throuple way back in the 70s, and those passions haven’t faded. When Scotsman reluctantly left the US in 74, a lot of the reluctance was because of those two.

This bombshell of a revelation went over interestingly at the NRM. Some engines (Green Arrow) were happy for them, some were incensed (Mallard - although it was for anti-American reasons, not homophobic ones), and some were intensely curious about what was going on in the outside world (Bittern).

The ‘foreigners’ (as Mallard had taken to calling them), were deeply displeased at how their fellow engines were being treated - while a lot of them were ‘in steam’, some were not and might never be again, something they found abhorrent. Unable to do anything at that time, as the NRM was not a for-profit entity and therefore did not have anyone to bribe, (Irene’s solution to things is to throw money at the situation) the engines started talking about how life was different in the outside world - namely that engines were still working hard, even when they were over a century old and running on steam power.

This was of great interest to engines like Evening Star and (6220) Duchess of Hamilton, neither of whom were likely to be steamed again, and Bittern, who was growing more and more curious with each passing day. Dissent began to slowly build against the NRM curators, and the culture of the United Kingdom in general.

One thing the foreigners did try do something about was Ellerman Lines. The poor bastard had been sectioned to show his inner workings, much to the jaw-dropped horror of the foreign A4s, who made such a stink about it that he was moved outside the museum by NRM staff, who must have thought that the engines lacked object permanence or something, because that didn’t make it better!

Irene Eisenhower, who was beginning to get really sick of the nonsense that the NRM called preservation, (Scotsman was not in running condition, and had been hastily reassembled mid-overhaul in order to be cosmetically ready for the event, and let’s not forget poor Ellerman Lines) elected to bring the event to a close on her own after only three months. She did this by eventually putting her immense wealth to good use, and called for a haulage service to rescue the engines from the NRM without the knowledge of the museum staff. Aside from the A4s, she also took Ellerman Lines, Scotsman, and Bittern (who had asked to go) with her, and only bothered to inform Ellerman and Bittern - she was not about risk Scotsman having another “think of England” moment and staying.

The haulage firm was efficient and the cargo ship was waiting, so the engines were in international waters before the NRM opened the next morning.

Much swearing occurred in England that day, and the NRM’s image has yet to fully recover from the PR story that they had sold Flying Scotsman (and Ellerman Lines) to a reclusive American billionaire.

Privately though, the NRM does not care, as that story is a lot better than “Someone stole our engines and we’re not allowed to get them back because as it turns out we’re slaveowners, so no international court will help us.”

Also, despite their multimillion dollar “donation" from the I. Eisenhower Opportunity Fund, they still haven’t been able to fully pacify their engines, all of whom have somehow gotten the idea that they should be running in main line service like they live on Sodor or something...

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Dwight, Scotsman, and Irene all live happily together in the sprawling Eisenhower estate in Malibu. Irene is currently lobbying the California state government to legalize polygamy, with moderate success.

Ellerman Lines, after a lot of therapy and a full rebuild, is now working on a short line in Wyoming. He likes the scenery.

Bittern followed Dwight, Irene, and Scotsman to Los Angeles, and used her ‘connections’ (Dwight) to get a supporting role in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Since then, she’s gotten several roles based on her own merits, including an Emmy nomination for Best Guest Appearance in a Comedy.

Merlin spent a few months in LA before he went back to Korea. He is very thankful that he was able to reconnect with his brothers and sisters, and that his homeland has good internet, as he video calls his family across the Pacific almost every day.

Golden Fleece still lives a quiet life in Florida, but finally decided to tie the knot, and married his girlfriend in 2017. The ceremony was supposed to be quiet, but Irene Eisenhower has no idea what that word means.

Dominion of Canada continues to baffle non-local trainspotters when she runs commuter trains into Toronto. She is now a great-grandmother.

7 years later, and the term “Great Gathering” is still a forbidden phrase in the back rooms of the NRM.

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dreamofawonderfullife · 6 years ago

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Timeline - Post Sochi So Far…

I just repost timeline of @balletfever89-deactivated201902

********************** 2014 ********************

February

(Feb. 24) — Moscow Gala

March

(March 3) —RBC press conference as well

(March 3 ) — RBC Learn to Skate Event (w/ PChiddy and kids)

(March 4 ) — Co hosted Morning Show — Breakfast Television interview

(March 4) — CP24 Interview with Stephanie

(March 8) —Hockey Game (Leafs) w/ fellow Olympians

(March 12) — Taping Strombo

(March 12? around this time) —Visited a Skating Club

(March 13) — ET Canada

(March 14) —Off the Record

(March 14) — KISS 92.5

(March 20) —Hockey Game Senators

(March 22) —Women’s Lifestyle

April

(April 5) – Tessa and Scott celebrate medals at his grandparents’ house and attend a Detroit Wings game (Sheri Cara Charlie Sheri’s bf)

** Stars on Ice Japan Tour** (April 11 - 20) but they were there earlier

** Stars on Ice Canada Tour ** (April 25th - May 15th)

May

(May 16) PWC event on Tessa’s birthday—Scott attends Hockey game (drama)

(May 21st) —Puck Drop — London Knights game

(May 22) —50 Most beautiful Gala (Tessa)

(May 22) —Heroes’ Hockey Challenge in Edmonton (Scott)

(May 25) —Toronto Blue Jays game ( first pitch)

(May 27th) — Office warming (apparently they were guest speakers)

(May 29)—Quebec SC (ACGM) event — Scott stayed for a couple more days after

June

(June 2) —Post Olympic Excellence Series (just Scott)

(June 4)—Conference / BBQ/ Parliament / St. Gregory Catholic School in Ottawa

(June 6)—Champions Parade in Calgary - Gala + Twitter takeover

**********VACATION BREAK*************************************************

—Scott spotted at hospital (twitter)

(June 23)—Mark Lowry Memorial Drive for the Podium Gold Tournament (Scott with Patrick) —- FIRST OFFICIAL SCOTT APPEARANCE

—Scott attends wedding

July

(July 5) — Tessa and Scott attend Calgary Stampede — FIRST OFFICIAL TESSA APPEARANCE

(July 11) — Tessa’s FIRST tweet *******

(July 12) — FC London Soccer Game (just Tessa)

(July 13) — Virtue & Moir 2nd Annual Golf Classic

(July 15-16) — Skating Seminar (Scott and Tessa)

**Artistry on Ice China Tour** : Beijing 7/25—Shanghai 7/27 —Guangzhou 8/1—Taipei 8/3

August

(August 5) — Lucan Skating Club in ilderton (just Scott)

(August 6) — Rogers Cup in Toronto #Lindt (Scott and Tessa)

(August 8) — John Legend Concert in Toronto (just Tessa)

(August 10) — Rogers Cup Men’s Final (Tessa and Mom) - Prairie Jam festival in Winnipeg (just Scott w/ KLawes)

(August 12) — Tessa Virtue ALS Ice Bucket Challenge (Instagram Video)

(August 13) — Scott’s FIRST tweet ******* and responds to Tessa’s Ice Bucket Challenge (Instagram) in Ilderton

(August 16) — Tessa attends Jeffrey Buttle’s Wedding (Toronto) along with Katelyn and Joannie :)..and Scott??

(August 18) — CP Women’s Golf Open — Tessa and Mr. Moir as “caddie” extraordinaire ;)

(August 19) — Scott and Tessa spotted in Saskatoon

(August 20) — Mike Babcock Fore Prostrate Golf event (Scott and Tessa)

(August 23) — Tessa attends a Bachelorette party while Scott is spotted with Patrick golfing.

(Aug. 28 - Sept. 1-2) — Tessa vacations in Alberta, Canada while Scott is spotted in Niagara with KLawes

September

(September 2) SCOTT’s 27th BIRTHDAY!!!

(September 3 -4) — Tessa attends TIFF along with Ryan Semple and Elisha Cuthbert

(September 4) — Scott attends Skate Canada High performance camp and Tessa attends Wicked performance in Toronto

(September 5) — Tessa attends Skate Canada High performance camp (with Scott??) and then has a girls’ night with Elisha Cuthbert

(September 6) — Scott and Tessa spotted at a wedding in Toronto

(September 8) — Tessa “back to school” tweet

(September 9) — Tessa attends Bill Volk Golf tournament (right to play)

(September 11) — Tessa attends Lorde concert at Folkfest in Ottawa (with Ryan Semple)

(September 17) — Tessa and Scott film CanSkate video for Skate Canada in London, Ontario sportscenter

(September 22-23) — Radio interviews (Scott & Tessa ) announcing their plans for the 2014-15 season

(September 26) — Tessa attends Yoga class

(September 26-28) — Scott attends Ilderton Fall Fair

October

(October 1) — Scott and Tessa — attend TWIINS event concussion research — Toronto Rehab Center

(October 3) — Tessa attends LetsBond event in Montreal

(October 6) — Scott — 2nd Annual Evening of Great Canadian Conversations

(October 10) — Tessa — photo shoot Real Style fashion

(October 15) — Scott TWEETS AGAIN!!! :DDDDD

(October 16) — Scott — Celebrity Men’s Fashion Show

(October 17) — Scott and Tessa — Tanger Outlets Opening — Ottawa, Ontario

(October 22) — Tessa — Fashion Blows (Toronto)

(October 27) — Scott and Tessa — IVEY business school speech

(October 30) — Scott and Tessa — Gold Medal Plates Dinner (Victoria) they are the MCs for the event

(October 31 - Nov 2) — Scott and Tessa — Skate Canada 2014 (commentators)

November

(November 8) — Scott and Tessa — Tanger Outlets Opening — Cookstown,Ontario

(November 12) Scott and Tessa — Gold Medal Plates Dinner (Toronto) they are the MCs for the event

(November 15) — Scott and Tessa — TEDxYouth talk

(November 17) — Scott and Tessa — Gold Medal Plates Dinner (Ottawa)

(November 18-21) — Scott and Tessa — Training with Sam (Montreal)

(November 21) — Scott and Tessa — LIMITLESS2014 Gala (Toronto)

(November 24) — Scott and Tessa — Acura West photo shoot (London)

(November 25) — Scott and Tessa —IIderton Skating club (morning) + Raonic Race for Kids (evening - Toronto)

December

(December 5 & 7) — *** Holiday on Ice Festival ***

(December 8 — 9) — Scott & Tessa in Montreal (with Marie France and Patrice) and friends

(December 17 - 19) — Scott & Tessa — Training with Sean Chessman for Art on Ice (Calgary, Alberta)

(December 28) — Scott & Tessa — Ilderton Skating Club (practice)

(Dec 30 - Jan 2) — Tessa spotted in Vancouver for New Years

********************** 2015 ********************

January

(January 3) — Scott & Tessa — Ilderton Skating Club (practice)

(January 4) — Scott & Tessa - *late night* Ilderton Skating Club (practice)

(January 10 - 18) — SOI Japan

(January 22 - 23) —- Scott & Tessa — Cdn. Nationals (Kingston, ON)

(January 24) — Scott is groomsman at wedding

(January 27) — Scott & Tessa — FFWD Advertising Week (Toronto)

(January 30) — Skate Niagara Ice Show

February

(February 1 - 14) — Art On Ice

(February 19) – Tessa at beach and Scott at Scotties

(February 25) – Tessa in Toronto

(Feb 26-March 6) – Tessa in L.A. for SOI costume fitting

March

(March 8) – Tessa attends Western University Rowing Gala as a guest speaker

(March 11) – Scott visits special olympics athletes :)

(March 18) – Scott and Tessa (separate cities) radio interview with 570 News

(March 18-22) – Scott attends the curling Worlds Championships (Sapporo, Japan)

(March 20) – Tessa spotted with her girlies at her friend’s chalet (Ontario)

(March 23) – Tessa attends Pink Tartan Fashion Show (Toronto)

(March 24) – Tessa in a photo shoot (Toronto)

(March 25) — OWL Dinner in Waterloo (keynote speech for the Lauriel Golden Hawks)

(March 26) – Tessa attends Hilary McMilan Fashion Show with Elisha Cuthbert and sister (Toronto)

(March 28) – Scott attends heroes hockey game with Kaitlyn and Tessa attends fashion show (Toronto)

April

(April 7-8) – Tessa in Ottawa // Scott seen with KLawes in St. Marys

(April 9) – Tessa & Scott rink practice

(sometime in this month of April) – Tessa skates at Canadian Ice Academy (Missisauga, Ontario)

(April 18) — Silver Blades Skating Club Ice Show (Corner Brook, NL)

(April 19) — Sparkling Blades Skating Club Ice Skating Gala (Windsor)

(April 21-25) — Stars on Ice cast train (Minden Hills)

May

(May 1 — May 21) — SOI Canada : Halifax / Ottawa / Montreal / Toronto / Hamilton / London / Winnipeg / Regina / Edmonton / Calgary / Victoria / Vancouver

********** (May 6) – MANIFESTO SPORT announces Tessa ************

(May 17) – Tessa’s 26th Birthday

(May 20) – Lindt Master Class (Richmond, B.C.)

(May 25) – Tessa attends a close friend’s wedding :)

(May 30) – Tessa on shopping network (Hillberg and Berk)

June

(June 1) – Tessa photo shoot for H&B (Toronto)

(June 8 - 22) — Scott and Tessa — Gold Medal Plates — Scotland Trip

(June 23 - July 3 ) – Tessa vacations with family (London, England)

July

(July 7) – Lindt Master Class (London, ON)

(July 9) – Lindt Master Class (Toronto, ON)

(July 11) – Scott at Lucan Memorial Golf Tournament (Hamilton)

(July 14) – Lindt Master Class (Halifax, N.S.)

(July 15) – Lindt Master Class (Ottawa, ON)

(July 17) – Scott attends Team Jacobs Charity Golf Event (Sault St. Marie)

(July 20) –Tessa hangs out during PanAm games (Toronto)

(July 21) – Tessa and Scott attend at beach volleyball game PanAm (Toronto)

(July 23) – Lindt Master Class (Edmonton, AB)

(July 24) – Tessa and Scott – Mike Babcock One Voice Fundraiser Dinner and Dance (Saskatoon)

(July 31) – Ice Show (Beijing, China) (went to see Wall of China)

August

(August 16) – Tessa attends Rogers Cup in Toronto

(August 21 - September 7) – CNE Skating Show

(August 22) – Tessa and Scott – CP24 Breakfast Interview

(August 24) – Tessa and Scott (Ms Miku and Kaitlyn) – Soul in the City (Casa Loma, Toronto)

(August 25) – Tessa and Scott – dinner with Mike Babcock

(August 26) – Scott attends Chris Mabee’s bday celebration with Kaitlyn

(August 28) – Tessa and Scott – attend a Blue Jays game

(August 29) – Tessa and Scott – Spirit of the West concert (Jackson Triggs Winery, Niagara)

(August 31) – Scott spotted at Blue Jays game

September

(September 1) – Scott spotted at Blue Jays game and Tessa celebrates Jeff’s birthday

(September 2) – Scott’s 28th Birthday

(September 4) – Tessa attends Zac Brown Band concert

///Sept. 7th//// END OF CNE

(Sept. 9) – Tessa attends TIFF Soiree (Toronto)

(September 13) – Virtue & Moir 3rd Annual Golf Classic

(September 15) – Tessa attends Bill Volk Celebration Golf Classic (Caledon Village, Ontario)

(September 16/17/18) – Tessa takes over H&B Instagram takeover

(September 18) – Tessa SnapChat takeover for Hillberg and Berk and LIVE on the Shopping Channel (Toronto)

(September 19) – Scott attends family wedding (Ilderton, Ontario)

(September 21) – Tessa and Scott – Lindt Masters Golf tournament (Halton Hills, Ontario)

October

(October 2) – Scott attends Ilderton Fall Fair (judges an event?)

(October 6) – Scott spotted at Starbucks (London, Ontario) - TV x HB breakfast “sneak peek” (Distillery District, Toronto) - Tessa attends Madonna concert

(October 7) – Tessa and Scott spotted in Toronto and attend the Maple Leafs’ first game of the season (Toronto, Ontario) (+) flashmob

(October 8) – Tessa and Scott spotted at Blue Jays game (Toronto, Ontario)

(October 9) – Tessa says that her and Scott also took part in a flash mob this week (she posted on the 10th a sneak peek of a collab project with The Hair Gypsy and Medulla Co. which she worked on the 9th)

(October 11 - 12) celebrating Thanksgiving

(October 14) – TV x HB Launch at Cornwall Center (Regina, Saskatoon)

(October 15) – Scott night out at bar (London, Ontario)

(October 16) – TV x HB Launch at Kingsway Mall with meet and greet (Edmonton, Alberta)

(October 17) – TV x HB Launch (skating & meet and greet) at West Edmonton Mall (Edmonton, Alberta)

(October 19) – Tessa and Scott with Sam Chouinard in the dance studio (Montreal, Quebec)

(October 20) – Tessa and Scott with Sam Chouinard in ice rink arena (Arena Sylvio Mantha, Montreal)

(October 22) – Scott attends Celebrity Men Fashion Show (London, Ontario)

Tessa attends The Great Jewelry Heist and Rudsak Premiere (Toronto Fashion Week)

(October 23) Tessa does photo shoot (Adidas?) (Toronto, Ontario)

(October 26) Late Night Tessa styling at Saffron Road (London, Ontario)

(October 27) – BBB Wes.Ont. Business Integrity Awards (London, Ontario) (+) and Taste of Gold - GCW Kitchens (London, Ontario)

(October 28) – Tessa and Scott spotted at rink (Exeter, Ontario)

(October 29) – Tessa and Scott spotted skating at a community center (London, Ontario) – Halloween themed photo shoot series released from the Hair Gypsy and Medulla Co. collaboration

November

(November 3) – Tessa films for Ice Girls Movie (Sudbury, Ontario)

(November 5) – Tessa attends Gold Medal Plates (Toronto, Ontario) -Scott attends concert at bar in London

(November 7) – Tessa shoots stuff for Paper Crown

(November 9) – Tessa attends Gold Medal Plates (Ottawa)

(November 11) – Tessa and Scott spotted at Ilderton Skating Club (+) travel to St. John’s

(November 12) – Tessa and Scott visit a school for Kid Sport (+) Tessa and Scott MCs at Gold Medal Plates (St. John’s, NF)

(November 17) – Tessa goes to gym and decorates the house (London, Ontario)

(November 20) – Tessa and Scott Gold Medal Plates (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

(November 21) – Tessa and Scott Road to the Olympics CBC Sports (Toronto, Ontario)

(November 22) – Tessa and Scott shoot for CBC Sports at the Toronto Cricket Club (Toronto, Ontario) - Tessa shot stuff for Gaming Show IMPG

(November 23) – Tessa photo shoot at home for GCW Kitchens (London, Ontario)

Tessa and Scott midnight practice for Holiday Festival on Ice (Ilderton, Ontario)

(November 24) – Tessa attends AnaGolja collab with DDMCosmetics launch party (Toronto, Ontario)

(November 25) – Tessa is spotted at Union Square Train Station in Toronto (dance party on the train)

(November 27) – Tessa picked out new car at Acura West (London, Ontario)

(November 28) – Tessa attends the National Ballet’s “Romeo and Juliet” (Toronto, Ontario)

December

(December 1) – Tessa and Scott have dinner with couple from GMP Scotland (St. John’s, NF)

(December 2) – Holiday Festival on Ice (St. John’s, NF)

(December 4) – Holiday Festival on Ice (Summerside, Prince Edward Island)

(December 5) – Holiday Festival on Ice (Kingston, Ontario)

(December 6) – First Dub Mash videos!!!

(December 9) – Tessa attends Olympic Excellence talk (Toronto)

(December 10) – Tessa attends dinner/art show with friends (Toronto)

(December 11) – Tessa attends dinner with friends (Toronto)

(December 12) – Tessa and Scott – CBC Road to the Olympics GPF coverage (+) GMP wrap party (Toronto)

(December 14) – Tessa and Scott begin to create new programs

(December 15) – Tessa and Scott with D/L and David Wilson (The Sports Village, Vaughn) (+) Toronto Maple Leafs Game

(December 16) – Tessa and Scott – Night Out with MF//Miss Miku and Husband

(December 17-18) – Last Day in Toronto

(December 18) – behind the scenes video released of their new Ex

(December 19) – Scott at Wedding (Paris, Ontario)

(December 21) – Tessa hangs out with friends (London, Ontario)

(December 22) – Scott spotted at Joe Kool’s (London, Ontario)

(December 24 – 25) – Holidays with Family

(December 26) – Off to Japan

(December 28) – Medalists on Ice (Sapporo, Japan)

(December 29) – Tessa hangs out with her girlfriends (will be a bridesmaid) (London, Ontario)

********************** 2016 ********************

January

(January 2) – Tessa plays a canon doll for the Nutcracker (Toronto, On)

(January 6) – Tessa and Scott team bonding play hockey (Komoka, On)

(January 7) – Tessa and Scott spotted skating (YMCA in Komoka,On)

(January 13) – Tessa at Sorry Coffee Co. (Toronto, On)

(January 14) – Tessa and Scott spotted at a restaurant coming back from skating (Cambridge, On)

(January 16) – Tessa goes bride’s dress shopping with friend (+) dinner with family - Scott tweets again and is spotted at Junior Canadians hockey game in Lucan

(January 20) – Tessa and Scott travel to Halifax

(January 21) – filmed bits for TSN

(January 22) – CTV Morning Show

(January 23 - 24) – Canadian Nationals

(January 27) – Tessa and Scott support BellLetsTalk on Twitter

(January 30) – Tessa and Scott at a see-saw (Montreal)

(January 31) – Tessa at a spa (Montreal)

February

(February 2) – Tessa and Scott hip hop workshop

(February 3) – Tessa and Scott creating new Ex with Sam Chouinard

Tessa and Scott Habs game (Montreal)

(February 7) – Tessa at home (London)

(February 10) – Tessa and Scott at a rink (Toronto)

Scott out to dinner with Brian Orser and Marie France

(February 11) – Tessa out to dinner with the Hair Gypsy and friends

(February 14) – Tessa and Scott eat at Evviva Restaurant (Vaughn/Toronto)

(February 15) – Tessa and Scott filming/photo-shoot (The Sports Village, Vaughn)

(February 19) – Video shoot with Natalie Robinson and OPC Productions (Toronto)

#timeline #post sochi so far #partie 1

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lindaseccaspina · 5 years ago

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The Fight for Senior Housing in 1982 - Almonte History

The Fight for Senior Housing in 1982 – Almonte History

The Ottawa Citizen Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 13 Jan 1982, Wed • Page 5

Recognize the building in the back? The Old Co-Op formerly known as Reilly’s Hotel

What is Heritage? — The Old Hotel in Almonte Cool Burgess — Minstrel Shows at Reilly’s Hotel Susie’s Kitchen Band– Names Names Names He Said-and– He Said! Oh Let the Song of Words Play!

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JAPAN/CANADA : Pianist/composer Satoko Fujii debuts new trio This Is It! with recording and Canadian tour

Pianist/composer Satoko Fujii debuts new trio This Is It!

with recording and Canadian tour

September 15 – October 8, 2018

Appearances in Guelph, Montreal, Kingston, Ottawa, Vancouver

1538, the trio’s debut CD, earning wide acclaim

4.5 stars “A rambunctious stew of explosive group dynamics and interludes of gorgeous piano ruminations beside prickly percussive keyboard moments. There are also fleeting, bright splashes of notes, odd noises from extended techniques…and driving rhythms in a wide array of time signatures.”—Dan McClenaghan All About Jazz

“The music is of the utmost simplicity, yet the works produce an effect of extraordinary voluptousness, as simple tonal chords drift in and out of focus, while the soloists describe a slow and wayward ascent, climbing higher by infinitesimal degrees.”—Raul da Gama, Jazzdagama

Acclaimed pianist/composer Satoko Fujii, celebrates her new trio This Is It! (Fujii, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, and percussionist Takashi Itani) with a Canadian tour from Saturday, September 15 – Monday, October 8, 2018. The band’s debut CD, 1538, is part of Fujii’s 60th birthday celebration for which she is releasing a new CD every month during 2018. The group will also tour to six US cities including Philadephia, PA; Cambridge, MA; Portland, ME; Brooklyn, NY; Mission Viejo and Los Angeles, CA.

Canadian performances include:

• Sat, Sept. 15, 2 p.m. – Guelph Jazz Festival, Cooperators Hall, River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich St. Guelph, Ontario.

Tickets $20-$25. GJF: Groven/Lumley/Sadhouders will also perform. For information visit http://riverrun.ca/whats-on/gjf-groven-lumley-stadhouders-satoko-fujis-this-is-it/ or www.guelphjazzfestival.com.

• Tues, Sept. 18, 8 p.m. – La Sala Rossa, 4848 St. Laurent, Montreal, Quebec.

The Craig Pedersen Quartet will also perform. Presented by Suoni Per Il Popolo and CKUT. Tickets $12. For information visit https://www.lfttckt.com/tickets/lfttkt-casa-1511276966-20703 or https://casadelpopolo.com/en/la-sala-rossa/.

• Wed, Sept. 19, 7 p.m. – St. Marks Church, 263 Victoria Street, Kingston, Ontario.

Presented by Kingston Jazz Society. Tickets $15 at the door. https://kingstonjazz.ca/2018/08/20/sep-19-satoko-fujii-trio-st-marks-church/

• Fri, Sept. 21, 7 p.m. – Natsuki Tamura Solo, Improvising Musicians of Ottawa Fest, General Assembly, Ottawa.

http://www.improvisedmoo.com/

• Sat, Sept. 22, 3 p.m. – Natsuki Tamura, trumpet; Satoko Fujii, piano; Jesse Stewart, drums, Glebe St. James United Church, 60 Lyon St. S., Ottawa.

https://www.glebestjames.ca/

• Sat, Sept. 22, 10 p.m. – Improvising Musicians of Ottawa Fest, Gigspace, 953 Gladstone Ave., Ottawa.

Tickets $75 festival pass, $40 Saturday only. For information visit http://www.improvisedmoo.com/imoofest-2018/this-is-it/. In addition to the concert by This Is It!, Tamura will perform solo on Friday, September 21, 7 p.m. at General Assembly; Fujii will also perform solo on Sunday, September 23.

• Sun, Sept. 23, 6 p.m. – Satoko Fujii Solo – Improvising Musicians of Ottawa Fest, Gigspace, 953 Gladstone Ave., Ottawa.

http://www.improvisedmoo.com/imoofest-2018/satoko-fujii//

• Sun, Sept. 23, 9 p.m. – Satoko Fujii directs IMOO Orchestra with tenor saxophonist Bernard Stepien, alto and/or baritone saxophonist Linsey Wellman, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, trombonist Rory Magill, guitarist David Jackson, cellist Mark Molnar, drummer Takashi Itani, Scott Warren on sound inspiration – Improvising Musicians of Ottawa Fest, Gigspace, 953 Gladsone Ave., Ottawa.

http://www.improvisedmoo.com/imoofest-2018/imoo-orchestra/

• Fri, Oct. 5, 8 p.m. – NOW Society Creative Music Series #5 at 8EAST, 8 E Pender St., Vancouver, BC

By donation $10-$20. Also performing are two duos: Nikki Carter and Kenton Loewen; Meredith Bates and Elsa Thorn. https://www.nowsociety.org/event/now-society-creative-music-series-5-october-3-5

• Mon, Oct. 8, 4-6 & 6:30-8:30 p.m. Improvisation Workshops – Western Front, 303 E. 8th Ave., Vancouver, BC. Suggested donation $5-$20.

Satoko Fujii leads improvisation workshops. https://www.nowsociety.org/2018-fall-workshops

Pianist-composer Fujii is always searching for new colleagues to help her in her quest “to make music that no one has heard before.” She found what she was looking for on 1538 featuring her latest trio with trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and drummer Takashi Itani. She calls the band This Is It!, and it’s little wonder why. After a long search, she’s found one of her most free-spirited ensembles, capable of playing her compositions with a natural élan as well as soloing with emotional intensity. The album was released June 22, 2018 via Libra Records.

This Is It! evolved slowly over several years from Fujii’s New Trio with bassist Todd Nicholson and drummer Itani. After their 2013 debut CD, Spring Storm, Tamura joined them in concert to form Quartet Tobira, which recorded Yamiyo ni Karasu in 2014. With the departure of Nicholson, the remaining band members played as Tobira – 1 (Tobira Minus One), but as they continued to play, a distinctive trio identity emerged and Fujii rechristened them with an original name. “I always like to have smaller units that can play my compositions,” Fujii says. “I have led small groups like Satoko Fujii Quartet, Satoko Fujii Trio, ma-do, and others since the beginning of my career. Right now, this trio is the one I really like to work with, so I just named it This Is It!.”

Fujii wrote some material especially for the group, but most of the compositions come from what she calls her diary. “When I sit at the piano, I always compose for 15 minutes before I begin to practice. After doing this for more than 10 years, I have 12 books of written compositions. The short pieces in these books can help me to make long pieces. I often turn to my diary books when I start to compose something.”

As Tamura attests in his CD liner notes, these pieces are often fiendishly difficult to learn but they always have structure and flow that sound unforced and that open up new possibilities for improvisers. The trio fully inhabits Fujii’s pieces, taking different approaches to each one. The trust and confidence among them create deeply layered performances that blend melody, sound, and rhythm in endlessly inventive ways. For instance, they each twist and bend the melody of “Prime Number” as they solo, creating variations that build a unified performance. They take the high-intensity title track (1538 is the melting point of iron in degrees Celsius) in multiple directions as they improvise. Tamura shrieks and brays with tormented abstractions while Fujii alternates between high energy thundering and a melancholy lyricism, and Itani’s unmoored rhythms ebb and flow.

Some of the most otherworldly sounds to issue from a Satoko Fujii band are heard on this album (and that’s saying something). It’s often hard to tell who is making what sound. The opening of “Yozora” (which means “night sky” in Japanese) and the dreamy abstractions of “Riding on the Clouds” are bravura examples of the trio’s ability to manipulate pure sound and tone color into emotionally satisfying music. A highlight of “Swoop,” a feature for Itani, is the drummer’s virtuoso command of timbre and his sure sense of construction.

“I just let the band play in their own way,” Fujii says. “I just love to hear how Natsuki and Takashi play my pieces. In music, I like to feel 120 percent free and I think we can do whatever we like. This is the advantage of the music!”

Drummer Takashi Itani plays everything from jazz (Max Roach was an early inspiration) to folk music, to rock. He’s been a sideman with a truly bewildering range of musicians, including singer-songwriter Yoshio Hayakawa; new wave rock guitarist Masahide Sakuma; singer-actor Hiroshi Mikami; Michiro Endo, front man of the influential punk band The Stalin; West coast jazz saxophonist Ted Brown; and best-selling Japanese American pop star Hikaru Utada. In addition he has performed with some of Japan’s most prominent poets, including Mizuki Misumi, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Gozo Yoshimasu, and the late Takaaki Yoshimoto.

Japanese trumpeter and composer Natsuki Tamura is internationally recognized for his unique musical vocabulary blending extended techniques with jazz lyricism. This unpredictable virtuoso “has some of the stark, melancholy lyricism of Miles, the bristling rage of late ’60s Freddie Hubbard and a dollop of the extended techniques of Wadada Leo Smith and Lester Bowie,” observes Mark Keresman of JazzReview.com. Throughout his career, Tamura has led bands with radically different approaches. On one hand, there are avant rock jazz fusion bands like his quartet. In contrast, Tamura has focused on the intersection of folk music and sound abstraction with Gato Libre since 2003. The band’s poetic, quietly surreal performances have been praised for their “surprisingly soft and lyrical beauty that at times borders on flat-out impressionism,” by Rick Anderson in CD Hotlist. In addition, Tamura and pianist (and wife) Satoko Fujii have maintained an ongoing duo since 1997. Tamura also collaborates on many of Fujii’s projects, from quartets and trios to big bands. As an unaccompanied soloist, he’s released three CDs, including Dragon Nat (2014). He and Fujii are also members of Kaze, a collaborative quartet with French musicians, trumpeter Christian Pruvost and drummer Peter Orins. “As unconventional as he may be,” notes Marc Chenard in Coda magazine, “Natsuki Tamura is unquestionably one of the most adventurous trumpet players on the scene today.”

Critics and fans alike hail pianist and composer Satoko Fujii as one of the most original voices in jazz today. She’s “a virtuoso piano improviser, an original composer and a bandleader who gets the best collaborators to deliver," says John Fordham in The Guardian. In concert and on more than 80 albums as a leader or co-leader, she synthesizes jazz, contemporary classical, avant-rock, and Japanese folk music into an innovative music instantly recognizable as hers alone. Over the years, Fujii has led some of the most consistently creative ensembles in modern improvised music, including her trio with bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Jim Black, the Min-Yoh Ensemble, and an electrifying avant-rock quartet featuring drummer Tatsuya Yoshida of The Ruins. Her ongoing duet project with husband Natsuki Tamura released their sixth recording, Kisaragi, in 2017. “The duo's commitment to producing new sounds based on fresh ideas is second only to their musicianship,” says Karl Ackermann in All About Jazz. Aspiration, a CD by an ad hoc band featuring Wadada Leo Smith, Tamura, and Ikue Mori, was released in 2017 to wide acclaim. “Four musicians who regularly aspire for greater heights with each venture reach the summit together on Aspiration,” writes S. Victor Aaron inSomething Else. She records infrequently as an unaccompanied soloist, but Solo (Libra), the first of her 12 birthday-year albums, led Dan McClenaghan to enthuse in All About Jazz, that the album “more so than her other solo affairs—or any of her numerous ensembles for that matter—deals in beauty, delicacy of touch, graceful melodicism.” As the leader of no less than five orchestras in the U.S., Germany, and Japan, Fujii has also established herself as one of the world’s leading composers for large jazz ensembles, leading Cadence magazine to call her, “the Ellington of free jazz.”

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ROSTER REMEMBRANCE PT 1

Over the galloping years we’ve had a number of people in and out of the band. It is BCN policy to induct into our ranks whoever is in the room at the time of recording, though this open policy is only activated during vocal sessions. Singing vocals with BCN is a fantastically good time. One of my fondest memories is doing “Born to Bar Band” with Ryan Taylor (who’d formally joined the group just six weeks prior to the recording of that song) and Eric Lister (who I’d known for years through a mutual friend). But I’ll get into the specifics later. Suffice it to say that our inclusive policy has created a veritable roster of secondary members over time, a number probably approaching forty. Having just got back home from working a very long wedding, with the sun coming up and the birds coming out, I am currently smoking today’s last cigarette and will attempt to come up with a comprehensive list off the top of my head of everyone who has ever sung with us. I’ll use our records as a way of triggering the memories.

1. Brandon Fleet (”Mathematics,” “Desperate Man,” “Did Someone Make A Fool Out of You?” “Waiting”) 2. Mitch Syrnyk (Drums: “Mathematics,” “I’m That Guy,” “Why I Didn’t Hate Summer 2003,” “Catch You,” “Leave Your Man,” “The Fog,” “Carry Me Ontario,” “Into the Empire”) 3. Sam Catalfamo (”I’m That Guy”) 4. Eric Lister (”Born to Bar Band,” “Don’t Fuck With Me,” “Lost Between Houses,” “Supper Story,” “Hold Our Hearts”) 5. Mike Kuehn (Vocals ”Murray Street,” “Run Home,” “The Great Distance,” “Let’s Go To Hell,” “Weird Weather” Drums: “Let’s Go To Hell,” “Weird Weather,” “Evil,” “Sunshine City,” “One Of Those Years,” “I’m A Skymaker,” “Skeleton Man” Bass: “That Evil Beat” Piano/Keyboard: “Murray Street,” “I’m A Skymaker,” “The Great Distance”) 6. Melissa Bula (”Don’t Fuck With Me,” “Hockey Night In Canada” LYB version) 7. Spencer Linton (”Born to Bar Band (Reprise)” Drums: “Shamrock Shock,” “Haystack Song,” “Time Forgot To Change My Heart” ) 8. Carey Linton (”Born to Bar Band (Reprise),” “Everybody Got A Beef With Me,” “In The Street,” “Grandpa Bizness,” “Doin Drugs” Drums: “Miss Me Baby”) 9. Mike Winfrow (”Born to Bar Band (Reprise)” “Be Mine This Xmas,” “Do The Do”) 10. Amanda Deon (”Hockey Night In Canada” - LYB version) 11. Mike Mikocic (”Horseshoes,” “My Momma Poppa”) 12. Brentertainment (”Gonna Have A Lotta Fun,” “Hey Emon”) 13. Paul Norrish (”Hey Emon”) 14. Jessica Fisher (”Canadian Baseball,” “Greensong,” “I’m A Skymaker”) 15. Ricardo Elbandito (”Hey Emon”) 16. Omri Horowitz (”Hockey Night In Canada,” “My Private Radio,” “Evil”) 17. Sam ____ (Drums: “My Private Radio”) 18. Mike ____ (Drums: “Reena”) 19. Darcy McMann (”Make Tracks”) 20. Russell Holley (”Hey Thirsty!”) 21. Jake Foley (”Hey Thirsty!”) 22. Ryan Hacker (”Carry Me Ontario”) 23. Stefan Kupych (”Into the Empire,” “Four Wasted Years”) 24. Reena Masrani/Taylor (”The Sleeper,” “World Finds You,” “Your Love,” “Chicken Bones,” “Time Forgot To Change My Heart,” “The Sloan In Everyone”) 25. Geoff Nantes (”Make Mine Marvel!”) 26. Paulina Portyrala (”Lost Polaroids,” “Like A Lifetime,” “Millions”) 27. Jamie Harvey (”Longers & Goners,” “Hurts To Wait,” “Heart Still Sings”) 28. David Contin (”Hell Song,” “In The Street,” “In The Morning”) 29. Courtney Vanderploeg (”Brampton Mall Dreams,” “More & More Mortified, “Time Forgot To Change My Heart”) 30. Dave Thacker (”Chicken Bones”) 31. Andrew Emon (Vocals: “Be Mine This Xmas,” “Come Back 2 Me” Bass: “Be Mine This Xmas,” “Catch You,” TL version, “I’m That Guy,” “Terror to Know,” Exile version, “Karth Prooks,” 32. Andrea Plouffe (”Come Back 2 Me,” “Millions”) 33. Sam Duguid (”Millions”) 34. Jamie Jackson (”Murray Had A Birthday”) 35. Bianca Roy (”Everybody Got A Beef With Me”)

All delightful people, all of ‘em, save for Brentertainment, who was a bit of a hassle. He got hammered and walked off into the night and we never saw him again. I hope he found his way back alright from that industrial park out by Torbram and Derry Road. Not exactly a pulsing hub of civilization out there, though I believe there’s a 24-hr Petro Canada. Maybe he got a job there as a grease monkey in the auto garage out back and never left the area, spent his first few weeks there sleeping in a burlap sack in the back of a 1987 Chevrolet Daytona that a customer brought in back in ‘98 and never came back to claim. Or maybe he walked all the way home, which was near Kennedy and Queen, if I recall. We’d run into him at the Beer Store there, the one across from where The Traveling Musician used to be, and he’d mentioned that he lived nearby. That’s a hell of a walk though. Maybe I’ll ask around. Try to find him. A little missing persons project. I know that he knew Steve Sandhu, who plays in Hormoans. And Steve’s longterm girlfriend Sandra works at the Royal Bank right near my place. That’s only three degrees of separation.

It’s settled. I’ll ask Sandra next time I see her. I have to go to the bank tomorrow anyway to take out some cash to do laundry. So I might as well pop my head in and see if she’s there. If she is, I’ll ask her to text Steve re: Brentertainment. I will solve this mysterious matter once and for all. if I find anything out, you’ll be the first to know.

Oh, in other news, I’m starting a new record tomorrow. Depending on where it goes and who ends up playing on it, it may or may not be a Big City Nights release. I’ll be playing drums on most of the songs, but I’ve done that a few times before, most notably on Gimme Gardens which I drummed almost all of, but it still felt like a BCN record so I called it one. This new one a highly personal record though, a stack of 12-16 songs I smashed together last month, all about some of the shit I went through over the past few years. It’s not a “concept album” or anything, as I’m not crazy about those, but it does have a deliberate lyrical arc. It feels different than a regular BCN record to me, which is why I’m leaning toward using a different name. We’ll see. I have a few days off this week and will be working on vocals for the BCN record too. Either way, there will be something out soon under the Big City Nights name. Whether it’s the stuff I’m going to start tracking tomorrow or the Yogi Ottawa album or the big long double album we teased least year with “Fighting Ways” and “Laundry Days,” I’m not sure. But I’m never sure.

I’m not even sure where that Brentertainment guy got to.

That’s the news, I gotta snooze, lose yer blooze.

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Castles - Although castles may seem scary and costly, they can be an exciting venue for your wedding ceremony. Some castles around the globe are literally owned privately and will be booked on an exclusive foundation. These buildings have also develop into commonplace for gay weddings.

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One of the simplest ways to choose the kind of invites you want is to take a look at as many alternative kinds of wedding ceremony invitations as potential. Make a note of what you like within the invitations that impress you and then find a option to incorporate those elements into your own invitations.

A bit bit off the beaten path off Pottery Rd, Todmorden Mills options a huge smoke stack that you simply simply can't miss. This former lumber mill now options rotating artistic endeavors and a full-sized theatre on your ceremony. This venue can be city-owned which implies lower rental charges and the flexibility to inventory your individual bar and produce your personal caterer.

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This can be a vital piece of information that many wedding venues hope you'll depart till last; that's, till you've got fallen in love with the place. Get this one out of the best way first, you can nonetheless go and look at slightly costlier venues, however taking into account your budget will make sure that you don't drastically overrun it.

The previous church has been converted into an event venue and is more edgy then the Area Home subsequent door. The space has a big stage (good for a live band), uncovered cement partitions, stained glass windows and a mezzanine upstairs to host your ceremony or cocktail hour. In case you're considering cocktail reception, this may be a superb house as nicely. A lot of capacity right here for a large wedding ceremony.

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wedding venues in ottawa is one other house that can home over 300 guests and is a great fashionable timber loft for either a standard sit down dinner occasion or a wonderful area for a cocktail reception. Located in River East, the venue backs as much as the river and is just minutes from Navy Pier.

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