Wouldn't it be great if the band just never ended?

I was very happy to be able to see Great Big Sea in concert last night (free!) at Dundas Square ..... great show, as always, and lots of fun. I wasn't able to jump and dance as much as usual to the music, though, due to the sore muscles still from gymnastics. Thanks to the large screens set up everywhere around the Square we were able to see pretty much everything that was going on onstage, as well as lots of funny scenes from the crowd. But by shifting and standing on tiptoes could see the stage itself now & then too. I think my favorite song they did was a mellower/slower version of 'Sea of No Cares', which Alan said was its original form, and how it sounded when he heard it for the first time, "On a foggy Wednesday afternoon in Sean's living room."

Kyle & Talibah were able to join me for the show, and neither of them had ever seen the boys in concert before, and both enjoyed the experience. The pre-GBS acts weren't too bad either, Holly Cole with some jazz, and Jully Black with R&B. Then a surreal, larger than life puppet show of 'girafes', with clowns and opera...very odd, but an interesting spectacle. Oh, Toronto.

Oh yeah ....... the street festival (which is going on all weekend) was also a launch of the new Toronto 'brand' ....Toronto Unlimited. Which, frankly, I don't like at all....at least, not the results of. I don't like the logo at all, and while the idea of the 'Toronto Story' is interesting, I don't particularly care for how it turned out. There are ads all around the city (lots at Dundas & Yonge), and we were treated to a 5 minute or so commerical (pretty much a captive audience). Boo. I still love you, Toronto, but as a logo, you suck.