Hi friends,

I am playing a ton of fun music on the next three weekends, so here I am in your inbox to tell you all about it. If you’re wondering why it’s hard to get me to come hang out with you at the moment, look no further.

May 3rd: Kwetlal Day in Uplands Park

The Kwetlal (Camas) is blooming right now and I’ll be out on Saturday with The Bald Eagles to celebrate it!

Come to Cattle Point this Saturday afternoon for a free celebration of this beautiful and ecologically important plant, and listen to some sunny-day tunes from us while you’re there. You can read more about the ecosystem in Uplands Park and its history here.

May 9th, 10th, 16th and 17th: Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers

For the following two weekends, I’ll be in the pit for The Gondoliers, which is a very silly operetta. It’s my very first time being involved in a Gilbert and Sullivan production, and it’s every bit as goofy and fun as you might expect that it would be. It has all the things that I’ve missed about playing musical theatre - crazy key changes, fast page turns, silly jokes, a nonsense plot, and staying on your toes to accompany a live soloist who could do anything at any time. It also has dancing, star-crossed lovers, satire directed at aristocrats and the Grand Inquisitor of Spain shows up in Venice for… uh, reasons?

It plays the first weekend at the Dave Dunnett Theatre at Oak Bay High School; Saturday, May 9th at 7:30pm and Sunday, May 10th at 2pm. You can get tickets here. If you want to hang out with Eldan and my parents, they’ll be at the May 10th show.

The second weekend is at the Mary Winspear Centre in Sidney, and it’s two matinees, both at 2pm on May 16th and 17th. Tickets are available here, and they’re going fast - Sidney loves a silly operetta, I guess!

Either way, come lean over the side of the pit and say hi to me if you’re there.

But wait, there’s more…

May 30th: Civic Orchestra of Victoria

June 6th: String Quartet benefit show for Friends of Bowker Creek

And as always, thanks for listening!