Friday Night Hootenanny

This is what February is looking like in Montreal.
I was really pleased with the last few weeks of snowlessness (I.LOVE.WINTER- not really.) Alas, my ideal winter couldn't last that long...
But onward we go! It is Friday night after all!

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word Hootenanny as "a gathering at which folksingers entertain often with the audience joining in." Therefore the last Friday of every month at MainLine Theatre, is a gathering of musical folk and bluegrass-ness at the appropriately named Friday Night Hootenanny.

Above are images from last month's Hootenanny. To your left is the lovely Sarah Jane Scouten and to your right is Brad and Mike (ex-Holy Moly/Lake of Stew), and an audience member on her knees holding up lyrics to the very funny vocalist whose name escapes me at the moment.

See how much fun you can have? You can be the one holding up the lyrics spontaneously! This all goes down at 22h30 tonight!

But before then I will be checking out INNI at Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québecois for some moving images.  Aaaand then maybe after that check out an art exhibit at the Fresh Paint Gallery....
While it snows....

One of Everything for the Boys

Good theatre, I hate to say this: is hard to come by.
I was relieved to say within the first five minutes of SideMart Theatrical Grocery's production of Whiteman's Whiskey Comedy Revue: One of Everything for the Boys, that this was awesome theatre!
They sing! They dance! They sure can act! And golly jeez they write their own material!
Created as a jazzy revue to entertain troops in a fictional land, the play is full of tongue in cheek witticisms including blatant sexism and racism of the days gone by- SideMart hits the nail on the head with just the right tone and balance of the faux-pas of yore.
Already critical darlings in the media, try to catch them while you can in small intimate venues like MainLine Theatre before they step up to the Centaur next spring, so you can say "Oh SideMart? I knew them back in the day!"