Alpha Yaya Diallo Concert

Alpha Yaya Diallo in concert
~ Oak Bay, Rec Centre, Victoria BC
What a great musician, and showman!
Excellent guitarist, appeared in Victoria this friends, on a Friday evening Nov 4th.

Having never heard his music before, I wasn't sure what to expect.
Was I ever delighted!!

Great songs, rhythms, musicians, and venue.

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Jim Witter; Billy Joel and Elton John, The Piano Men

Jim Witter; Billy Joel and Elton John, The Piano Men

~ at the Sid Williams Theatre, Courtenay

This was billed as a group playing hit songs of Billy Joel and Elton John, but ended up as a 70s Nostalgia trip!!

It included a segment on 70s TV theme songs.
I don't give a rats ass about those Ok??

Gilligans Island, Partridge Family, Monkees, duh!
I wanted more songs from the superstar guys!

What they played was great, but it seemed like they yapped for too long. 

Ultimately I was disappointed.

I was looking for details from Jim on how, why, when these songs were written, what the artist was thinking, the nuances of each particular piece. Too much to expect I guess. 

Matthew and Jill Barber

Matthew and Jill Barber, The Family Album
~ at the Sid Williams Theatre, Courtenay BC


Hadn't heard of this brother and sister before, so was interested in hearing their musical stories
Well received by the locals here, I enjoyed the mix of original and covered versions.
Musicians were excellent, and a mighty fine time was had by all.

~ Jill Barber music

~ Matthew Barber music

Anything Goes, the musical

Anything Goes!

~ the music of Cole Porter, at the Sid Williams
Rainbow Youth Theatre Group has put on a fabulous production of the antics on the S.S. America as it crosses the Atlantic.

Wonderful choreography, strong voices and acting by the Theatre Group.

5 Stars excellent

Into The Forest

Into The Forest
~ CVAG Fall Film Series

Loved this movie!
The premise is a huge power outage in the NorthWest causes a family to struggle through; no electricity and then no gas, no food.

Powerful camera shots, wonderful acting, beautiful scenery lends itself to a spell binding afternoon here.

Definitely one of the best films I've seen in a long time.


Into The Forest Actors discussion here


Into The Forest book review here

Miss Peregrine's Home For Precious Children

Miss Peregrine's Home For Precious Children
~ movie by the same name out now
Recommended to me by Marie of the Driftwood Malls Coles bookstore.
I'm loving it!
I admit, the title turned me off, made me think it was a children's story, but clearly it's in a similar vein as the Harry Potter fantasy novels.
Must see the movie as it's a Tim Burton show.

*** update Oct 13 ***

saw the movie, and as expected, not quite as interesting as the book. Couple of things to note:
- they changed the sex of one of the main characters in the movie
- the ending of the movie was VASTLY different from the book.
- 3D and not really worth the extra price.

Easy

Easy
~ NetFlix series
watched this after seeing it was rated similar to Life in Pieces.

It is similar, however the show is 1 chapter at a time vs 4 for LiP, and Easy is much more developed character-wise and ahem, sexier too.
as in lots of sex ... at least in the first episode.

They always do that right, to pull you in.....