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A
month spent volunteering and campaigning
Hello
all! So, this month I will be writing about the Bluesfest. The
line-up this year was really good and a lot of my favorite bands were there: like
Passion Pit, City and Colour, Stars, Great Big Sea, Down with Webster, Weezer,
and Metric. On
the downside, a lot of my friends weren't around so it was difficult finding someone
to go with every night that I wanted to go. During
Bluesfest I spent most of my time at my friends house, but that caused some
more problems, because she kept leaving to go to her friends cottage, so
I had to find other places to stay. This also caused problems when it came to
seeing shows, because I only ended up seeing four of the acts I just listed, although
I did end up seeing others like Steel Pulse, Santana and the lead singer from
Supertramp which were all really good. So,
now on to what I liked about the shows. By
far, my favorite show was Passion Pit because it was full of energy and great
songs. In the middle of it my Dad and I left to go check out the Flaming Lips
but as soon as we got there we decided to go back to see Passion Play. Also, because
of the show, I have both of their albums on my iPod and some of the songs, like
Sleepyhead and Better Things, are now among my favourites The
B-52's were my second favorite act. This is because they just had so much energy
and were really having fun up on the stage. I went with my Aunt Pat and Uncle
Steve that night and we got up to the very front of the stage, and at the end
I got a drum stick, which I thought was pretty cool. Santana
was also a really good. I went that night with my Dad and we got pretty close,
but the entire place was packed with people just there to see Santana. The best
part of the show was by far the drummer. This
is because at one point the rest of the band left the stage except for him and
he began drumming. The actual stick work wasnt all that amazing, but the
remarkable part was that on the base drum, he had one foot doing eighth beats
and the other was doing fourths. The best part about this was that he kept it
up for about 15 minutes and during the middle of it, even took a water break,
while still pounding away on the bass drums with his feet. One
band that I heard for the first time during the Bluesfest was Steel Pulse, which
is a reggae/dub band that apparently has been around for awhile. My friend and
I went that day so we were alone and we had a really good time. At one point we
saw my old pre-school teacher, and my friends mothers friend, who
was there to also see the band for her birthday. The
biggest bummer about this year was that on the one day that I really, really wanted
to go see The Stars, Great Big Sea and Drake. So this meant that my friend who
was going to go with me and my mum couldnt get a student rush ticket, because
they were all sold out to squealy tweens. So instead my friend, my mum and I went
to see "Despicable Me" which was a really good movie, but Im still
bummed out about missing Stars. I
apologize for the shortness of this column, but not that much happened in July
besides Bluesfest. In my next column I'll tell you all about summer camp which
was a real blast. ttfn. (Maggie
Sherwin is 14-years-old and is in Grade 9 at St. Peter High School. To contact
the Magster e-mail maggie@orleansonline.ca.) Return
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