I’m pretty sure we spend at least half of our days with music on somewhere around us. I know I do. From our alarm clocks and background music on the morning news to radios in our cars and on our iPods we’re essentially surrounded by it. And we have such strong reactions to it. We hate that song, we love this one so much we’ve actually worn out the mp3! We have fond memories of our siblings playing music in their rooms and now refer to it as wall music (at least my sister in law does!) and of course there were school dances.

But for me, those last couple of things were kind of my childhood experience with music along with the top 20 every weekend on the radio.

Bringing this home, the past year and a bit I’ve spent some time with some talented young musicians from Wentworth Music who are going to have an entirely different memory of music. Here are some of my favorites from their most recent concert (Kids Wanna Rock: A Tribute to Bryan Adams).

Pictures are still available for sale online as both prints and digital files and of course, the DVD from the show is now on sale! You can pick one up at the school. Talk about great childhood memories, this DVD is stellar!

Until next time,
Steve

Boy oh boy does time fly when tomorrow never quite arrives! My last post was in September and while I’ve been busy since then, my good intentions never quite created their own blog entry for me. So here I am and it’s 2009! Time sure flies!

With that said, I do have a lot of things to tell you about and I have to remember many of them because I’m horrible at writing my blog ideas down on paper. I’m really trying to change that, though I didn’t make it a resolution.  But they’ll come to me and and I’ll blog them and share them with you.

The Wentworth Music Winter Concert is coming February 14th and I’ve had the privilege of covering their last two shows and I’m just hooked on them. Yes, Valentines Day. And for this concert they’re doing a tribute to Bryan Adams. There will tons of coolness but I can’t tell you anything other than there will be a non-Bryan Adams special guest that night along with an opportunity to go home with some extremely cool stuff!

Finally, I have some new pictures of me. I know, I know. But I wanted to share. This one was taken by my very good friend from Washington, Ami J. Davenport when my wife and I spent a weekend at Granville Island in November. We had a lot of fun that weekend and I’m definitely going to be telling you more about it soon!

Until next time!
Steve.

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UPDATED:

Prints are now available for purchase!!!

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This Saturday night is a big night for some 130 children, youth and adults from the Wentworth Music Education Centre. For some of them it will be their first time on stage, for others it will be one more performance done with excellence.

This is the third installment of the music series at the music centre, the first two being tributes to The Beatles and Queen. Both were unheralded successes and this show will have a lot to live up to.

This time the show is a tribute to KISS. Yes, Gene Simmons and company will be taking the stage in pint sized form but with all the glory of painted faces, leather and bedazzled jackets, boots and pants.

If rehearsals are any indication, this show is going to make you want to “Shout it out LOUD!”

It’s recital time again at Wentworth Music Education Centre. Today they held their Piano and Vocal performance recital and every student did themselves, their teachers and parents proud. Way to go guys.

Parents can find all of the photos at our proofing site where you can also order prints. If you have questions or special requests please don’t hesitate to get in touch!