Tag: le vent du nord

  • No Le Vent du Nord symphony show after all :(

    No Le Vent du Nord symphony show after all 🙁

    Y’know, there’s NEVER a good time to find out that your current favorite band has just had the show you were aiming for cancelled out from under them. But “while you are at a science fiction convention trying to a) promote your work and b) assist with the music programming and c) HAVE FUN” is…

  • Imminent Anna sightings!

    Imminent Anna sightings!

    For Seattle-area locals, hey, I’m going to be at Norwescon! Not in a professional writer-type capacity, but I WILL be there, and I’ll be easily found providing assistance to Dara during the music concerts! And just in case anybody wants one, I will also be bringing my few remaining print copies of Faerie Blood. And…

  • Quebecois tunes now in my sights

    Quebecois tunes now in my sights

    One of the big intimidating things for me as a newbie to Quebec tunes is that there are so! goddamn! many! of them–a problem equally applicable to Irish/Celtic tunes in general, but I’m growing to appreciate the sheer number of tunes available to an interested student! And thanks to being pointed recently at this beautiful…

  • Because it is my birthday and EVERYTHING is awesome

    Because it is my birthday and EVERYTHING is awesome

    When you do not have the words to properly express your relief at awesome medical news, screw words, go straight to KITCHEN PARTY IN YOUR HEAD! This is exactly how the inside of my head sounds like right now, people–my dream concert of ALL the awesome Quebecois and Newfoundland boys! De Temps Antan! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44BlsiQKwnw?list=PL9B03D939A9D3AE1B&w=560&h=315]…

  • Supremely awesome people, reprise

    Supremely awesome people, reprise

    That surprise that Dejah promised me if I showed up for this week’s session turned out to be THIS! If pictures are worth a thousand words, this one is worth at least an entire novella. This was in fact the very poster I had given to Dejah myself, one of the extras sent to me…

  • And now, in praise of supremely awesome people

    And now, in praise of supremely awesome people

    One of the things I’ve always loved about Great Big Sea fandom (and a lot of you who have read my posts over the years can back me up on this) is that it’s filled with genuinely wonderful people. I have been deeply privileged to discover that the same can be said for the extended…

  • Day of unmitigated disaster

    Day of unmitigated disaster

    Well, this was SUPPOSED to be the day I went with and down to Oregon to see Le Vent du Nord perform, and then to meet up with tomorrow afternoon for lunch and then an excursion to Powell’s. But the travel gods had other plans. We made it safely down to Olympia–where we stopped for…

  • Because Susan continues to have all the Awesome

    Because Susan continues to have all the Awesome

    So y’all know how I was gushing about my friend Susan arranging a Le Vent du Nord concert in Uxbridge? Well, she commissioned some art by Kevin Bolk of the boys, and made some posters of that art to promote the concert, and she was handing them out as incentives to raise money for Doctors…

  • Pretty things in my mail!

    Pretty things in my mail!

    Susan, The Most Awesome Le Vent du Nord Fan on the North American Continent (and very possibly the entire northern hemisphere), has arranged a show for those boys in August in Uxbridge, Ontario! And as part of that, she got a whole mess of promotional posters! And, being the super-awesome Susan that she is, she…

  • And now, a fangirly PSA: Le Vent du Nord in Oregon in November!

    And now, a fangirly PSA: Le Vent du Nord in Oregon in November!

    It appears that the boys of Le Vent du Nord are beefing up their application for the position of My New Favorite Band, because this morning, this happened on Facebook! How thoughtful is that? And I mean, it ain’t like I wasn’t going to go already anyway, but if I hadn’t already known about the…