Park Potluck

The neighbours around Victoria Park enjoyed a potluck party on Saturday evening.

Entertainment was furnished by the Carnival Band and Dixie Star Storytellers.

Thanks to Tony Montague for making it happen.

Mario, Hayley Rose and Steph

Roisin and Andrew

‘The Baron’ aka Bryan


Ann



One Year Old

To celebrate the first anniversary of the Central Valley Greenway VACC had a celebration at the Winston Ave. overpass with the band providing the music.

Dancers, Alexis, Kyrstein, Debbie, Daisy (also on drum and trumpet)

Alexis (and John)


Sadie, John, Debbie, Ross, Alexis, Luis, Bryan, Daisy, Royanne, devo, John Cl., Roisin, Fred, Eddie, Heidi, Brenda, Kyrstein, Ann, Luke





June 6/7 Weekend

Photography-wise the past week was a disaster. While I wait for my camera to come back from the repair shop I, temporarily, reverted antiquated technology. Anyone under 40 will have to Google ‘film’ or ‘Kodacolor’.

The results are not pretty. This is absolutely the last time I use film!

Bryan, devo, Diane, and Eddie at Pandora Park

Luke, Tara and Fred at CRAB Park

Centre A

Here are some pics from the band’s latest outing on the Downtown Eastside.

Fred and Marc
Karen Henry and Alix Sales invited the band to provide the music for an artsy affair at Centre A.

Bryan
The city wanted to say thank you to all the contributors, artists, fabricators, organizers, whose efforts made the Olympic Art Project a great success.

Tara

‘Golden’ Brian, Mario

see the other pics from this gig in our flickr pool

Buzzer Blog


Jhenifer at Translink has posted a nice article on the band playing for Angus’s last shift.

Ross, Tim, James, Fred, John Cl. Woogie

Bob, Tara, D, Mario


With Steph and Deb hanging on my arms I’d be smiling too

Angus Retires

For 41 years Angus McIntyre has been a Vancouver bus driver, always on trolley routes.

For the past 20 years Angus has worked the Nanaimo/Dunbar route.

May 31 was his last official day of work.

Angus flanked by Ross, Steph and Debbie

Angus says a few words and relates one of the hundreds of anecdotes accumulated through a long, and by all accounts, enjoyable career.


The assembled well wishers


Steph and the 1947 Brill

Enjoy a long and happy retirement Angus !!!

Saltspring Weekend 1

There are a pile of images from the band’s weekend on Saltspring Island.

It’s been busy with little time to process pics so I’ll post them in instalments as I work through them.

Imi

The band’s first gig was on Friday evening at the venerable Beaver Point Hall, complete with all the modern conveniences such as outdoor privies.

Suresh

This dance party was a fundraiser for the band to give us an opportunity to reimburse members for some portion of their travel expenses.

It looked like a good crowd so we may have made a few bob.