Another Concert under Erika’s belt. Celine Dion put on a huge show here in Toronto and Erika & Mommy had a unforgettable evening.

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Joel Plaskett live in Rochester, New York on November 2, 2007 opening for the Tragically Hip at the Auditorium Theater… comes out afterwards to say “hello” to Erika and Justin… see below ! While working the Tragically Hip concert in Rochester I got to meet Joel Plaskett after his opening set. He came out to sign some of his CD’s for fans… so I grabbed one and asked for an autograph for Erika and Justin after explaining how we all enjoy his music..with our favourite tune off the new CD being “snowed in/Cruisin’” the song above.I followed that up by asking him to say “hello” to both Justin and Erika on camera. Check Joel out…

Long weekend and we headed down to Beachfest put on by the MIX 99.9. It was at Sunnyside Beach in Toronto and there were alot of people along the waterfront because of a excellent Air show that was on for a good part of the afternoon. The main reason we went down was to see Serena Ryder. She is a soulful Canadian artist who Erika has been listening to for almost a year now I guess. Chantal Kreviazuk came on once we got into position. She sounded excellent on piano and received a nice response from her hometown crowd. Then Kalan Porter came on and sang a few of his own then butchered U2’s Where The Streets Have No Name.

So many of the teenagers bolted to get an autograph after Kalan’s show and that allowed for Erika and I to get right up to the front for Serena Ryder. Erika couldn’t believe how close we were and watched the entire show from my shoulders. Chantal and Justin came up to join us too after awhile. Erika snapped photos with here own camera and I grabbed a bunch myself. The show was great and after we headed to the side to get Serena’s autograph…. definitely worth the trip down to Lake Ontario.

Imagine… 13th Row we sat and witnessed Erika take in first Big Indoor concert at the age of 4 1/2. She had been listening to James Blunt for months every night as she goes to bed so she really got it. She looked up and saw, heard and felt the music that plays on her CD Player. It was amazing to see her experience this. She took some great pictures and although a little tired at the end she sang along to many of her favourite songs including the cover-song they performed by Supertramp!

It doesn’t get any better than this…

Erika and I went to the Toronto Music Expo. There were exhibits from CD Framing to Guitars and Pianos. Erika’s favourite was the 100 set Drum Area where you could try all sorts of quite rubber drums with headphones. At the end of the day we watched Honeymoon Suite perform… just to add another concert to her list