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<center><h3> Love was in the air </h3></center> | <center><h3> Love was in the air </h3></center> | ||
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<center>John Kendle</center> | <center>John Kendle</center> | ||
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'''Hot tweets, Elvis treats ruled the weekend at Birds Hill Park | |||
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I was rather confused for about an hour on Saturday night at the Winnipeg Folk Festival. | I was rather confused for about an hour on Saturday night at the Winnipeg Folk Festival. | ||
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So I just kept nodding and smiling at people's strange remarks until friend and colleague Marlo Campbell finally clued me in. | So I just kept nodding and smiling at people's strange remarks until friend and colleague Marlo Campbell finally clued me in. | ||
It seems that the festival's Friday and Saturday night mainstage host | It seems that the festival's Friday and Saturday night mainstage host — Jian Ghomeshi, host of Q on CBC Radio One — is a fan and user of Twitter. He'd sent out a tweet asking people to send him their best festival stories (in 140 characters or less, of course). If their tweets were nice or cute or sweet enough, he promised to read them onstage. | ||
My girlfriend, who's also a diehard Twitter user (seriously | My girlfriend, who's also a diehard Twitter user (seriously — even our freaking dog has an account), was one of the first to respond, telling Jian she'd first fallen in love with me at the Folk Fest in 2004. | ||
And yes, that just happened to be the message Ghomeshi read onstage on Saturday night. It was the first tweet to be read from a stage at a Winnipeg Folk Festival. | And yes, that just happened to be the message Ghomeshi read onstage on Saturday night. It was the first tweet to be read from a stage at a Winnipeg Folk Festival. | ||
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So now I must say thanks to Liz, thanks to Jian and thanks to Marlo for filling me in. Otherwise I'd still be wandering around wondering why the hell people were talking about Bono. | So now I must say thanks to Liz, thanks to Jian and thanks to Marlo for filling me in. Otherwise I'd still be wandering around wondering why the hell people were talking about Bono. | ||
The other big surprise of the festival came early in the week, during Elvis Costello's preposterously stupendous gig on Wednesday night. | The other big surprise of the festival came early in the week, during Elvis Costello's preposterously stupendous gig on Wednesday night. | ||
I'd prepared myself for an elder-statesman-with-new-album show | I'd prepared myself for an elder-statesman-with-new-album show — full of his roots and country material from ''Secret, Profane & Sugarcane'', with a few old faves sprinkled in here and there. | ||
What I hadn't realized was that the version of The Imposters with which Costello is touring is essentially The Attractions without bassist Bruce Thomas (Davey Faragher fills that role these days). So when they started with Accidents Will Happen, Mystery Train and (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea, I was suddenly transformed into the 13-year-old who'd first fallen in love with those songs. When Elvis finished | What I hadn't realized was that the version of The Imposters with which Costello is touring is essentially The Attractions without bassist Bruce Thomas (Davey Faragher fills that role these days). So when they started with "Accidents Will Happen," "Mystery Train" and "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea," I was suddenly transformed into the 13-year-old who'd first fallen in love with those songs. When Elvis finished — after a seven-song encore that included a dub version of "Watching the Detectives," "Alison" (in which he quoted Smokey Robinson's "Tears of a Clown" and "Tracks of My Tears"), "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes," "Radio, Radio," "Pump It Up" and "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding" — I thought my head and heart would explode with excitement. | ||
Perhaps the coolest thing about the Costello gig was seeing at least two members of The Fuse in the audience. When Costello last performed here, at the Playhouse in 1978, he ended up jamming a Nick Lowe tune onstage at the St. Vital Hotel with the Winnipeg group, which featured Jeff, Don and Paul Hatcher and Dave Briggs. | Perhaps the coolest thing about the Costello gig was seeing at least two members of The Fuse in the audience. When Costello last performed here, at the Playhouse in 1978, he ended up jamming a Nick Lowe tune onstage at the St. Vital Hotel with the Winnipeg group, which featured Jeff, Don and Paul Hatcher and Dave Briggs. | ||
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Yep, it felt like love was in the air all weekend at Birds Hill. | Yep, it felt like love was in the air all weekend at Birds Hill. | ||
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'''Uptown Magazine, July 16, 2009 | '''Uptown Magazine, July 16, 2009 | ||
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[[John Kendle]] reviews Elvis Costello & [[The Imposters]] with [[The Lovell Sisters]], Wednesday, [[Concert 2009-07-08 Winnipeg|July 8, 2009 | [[John Kendle]] reviews Elvis Costello & [[The Imposters]] with [[The Lovell Sisters]], Wednesday, [[Concert 2009-07-08 Winnipeg|July 8, 2009]], Birds Hill Provincial Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. | ||
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