January 12, 2018: I watched the overcast Victoria sky slowly change into a welcome azure. Eventually the entire sky cleared, doing its best to imitate the deep steel blue I remembered from winter days on the prairies.
“Appropriate”, I thought, … Read the rest
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Completion of the Victoria sewage treatment plant may have transformed them into Revellers Without a Cause, but the Clover Point Drifters are undeterred. Subtle joke in there, for the keen observer.
Twenty-two years in, the band still pushes out a … Read the rest
Clover Point Drifters – Dec. 9/22 Read the rest
by Tim Rogers
On Friday, January 13th, 1989, a band of dedicated folkies assembled at St. John’s Church and put together the first club night for Deep Cove Folk. Must’ve been pretty exciting! Since then, the Club has put on … Read the rest
On Saturday afternoon, May 20th, several local musicians busked outside Tanners Books in Sidney to help publicize the upcoming Kristina Olsen & Bill Coon concert. Reminder cards with the concert information were handed out to those passing by. All donations … Read the rest
To promote the Roy Forbes concert In February 2013, the illustrious DCF buskers took to the streets of Sidney again. A cool morning but the fingers of the Buskers survived and the hot music that they were playing brought the … Read the rest
Since the previous busking experiment was so successful, the same was tried to publicize the Cowboy Celtic concert in October 2012. With Farrell out of town, Bob recruited fellow director Rick Nordin and Jim Sadlish (fiddler for our November feature … Read the rest
Buskers – October 2012 Read the rest
Before the James Keelaghan concert in April 2012, club director Farrell Boyce suggested that busking on Beacon Avenue might be a good way of publicizing the upcoming concert – showing posters and handing out reminder cards. A sign was also … Read the rest
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