Hi everyone! We’re sorry it took so long to have un update of the tour, but on Monday and Tuesday, we were very busy!
On Monday, we had a workshop for about 100 high school students. They were really fun! There was at least a girl who is learning to play button accordion! That’s cool to know young people are still interested in these instruments! It’s also funny because button accordions are not that common down here. Piano accordions are more popular.
At the end of the workshop, during the question and answer time, one of the students just raised his hand and said «You (Guillaume) look like you’re my brother!» Have a look on that picture and you will have to agree! Seeing them «live» was fuuny! They have the same long curly hair pony tail, glasses…
Guillaume and his new brother!
Guillaume just told that he saw him at the very beginning when he enter the auditorium and had the same thought!
After this funny workshop, we went to Terra College for a great lunch and a radio interview you can hear (for less than a week) on this web site (Choose Tuesday Talk @ Ten 020811. Go at the second half of the interview). It turned out very funny also! We had a good time.
Then, we went to do kind of a seminar for music students who are interested in music business. Booking, publicity, engineering and so on. Stephanie was tired because she hadn’t sleep well the night before (because of a cold… everybody in the band has a cold right now!) and she wasn’t able to stop laughing for nothing during the seminar, but it was just funny and everything ended well!
After having had dinner with kind people of the college (yeah, that was a busy day!) we’ve done a mini-concert and there was a lot of people. Guillaume’s new brother and other people we met earlier during the day made it to the show. That was really nice! Everybody had a lot of fun!
We also have to mention the people who organized this mini-concert did a lot of great job : they made researches on Québec city and the province of Québec and they made superb presentations. They also found wonderful pictures of the winter’s carnival (Carnaval de Québec). They made an excellent publicity of Québec City. The sad thing about that is many people (like Québec’s mayor) don’t know we’re giving Québec city this exposure.
That’s it about Monday!
Tuesday, we were still busy. We went to 2 different high schools and both workshops went really well. During the second one, we had the opportunity to teach a part of “À la claire fontaine” to these music students. They learned quickly and that was funny to hear them pronounce the words! Now we just wish some of them will come to the show tomorrow night and sing with us!
Tuesday afternoon, we went to visit kids of an elementary school. They behaved perfectly and they were cute! They gave us some St-Valentine’s Day treats at the end and we were just like kids in front of it!
After that, we had about an hour to rest at the hotel before going to Bellevue for another mini-concert. When we’re done playing and were chatting with people, a man just told me : “You know, I have to admit I was not supposed to be there tonight. I wasn’t really interested… But my wife was insisting! Now I must say I’m really happy I came! That was so fun and interesting!”
So I think we made it well!
Wednesday and today, we didn’t see that much people. We went to a seniors’ center, a youth center where there were 15 students only, a preschool home (for about 10 kids of 3 and 4 years old) and 2 high schools. For this last workshop it was really interesting because there were about 300 students. That was worth it! Teenage girls really liked FO (bass player) and they were asking for hugs and pictures! Funny time again!
Right now, as the last workshop took place in the theater we’ll make the show tomorrow, we’re having good time chilling out at the hotel! Tomorrow, we’ll only have to finish the sound checks and give a terrific show! It has to be terrific because as you already know, we’re recording it to eventually (sometime this spring) have a new live album on the net!
Alright folks! Now we’re going to turn our TVs on “Rocky” or some other interesting American show! Have a good evening and be there tomorrow night for the concert at Sandusky State Theater!
MS 
