We are blessed in our area with an abundance of music to satisfy our live music needs.  When it rains though, it pours.  A case in point was a few weeks ago when, on the same night PPAC hosted a string ensemble at the high school, The Marigolds (Susie Vinnick, Caitlin Hanford and Gwen Swick) played up in McDonald’s Corners and Eve Goldberg played The Studio Theatre. 

 

I caught Eve, backed by Ken Whiteley on anything with strings and Victor Bateman on bass.  There’s just something reassuring when you sit down to be entertained by 3 professionals of their calibre.  Eve’s sincere voice and solid guitar work presented new material from “A Kinder Season”, her new cd.  Ranging in styles from folk to country, blues and jazz, her creative writing draws you in with her stories like a child at a mother’s knee.  After the show, Ken and I were sharing stories of having grown up in “da big smoke” - Toronto and just how lucky we were in the music we were able to hear back then.  Ken recollected his first out all night adventure when, at approximately 15 years of age he ventured downtown to see Ramblin’ Jack Elliot at one of the coffee houses popular back then in Yorkville Village.  As he recollects, Jack played a great set to a supportive crowd when some older folk in suits came in and somehow irked Jack as for the next half hour or so he did nothing but do car imitations, until they got the hint and left.  As the busses to Don Mills stopped running around 1am, he missed the last one, much to his parent’s displeasure.  What we remember