让你怦然心动的匹克顿小镇(Picton)！【来来爸游山玩水】
Picton 是Prince Edward County农业区最大的社区，也是安省最适合漫步的小镇之一。你可以给自己安排一天的行程，逛逛那里的商店，如City Revival，它是一个有品牌标志的大寄卖店，很适合淘宝哦。或者去Miss Lily's喝杯咖啡，然后去隔壁的Books and Company买一些想看的书，也许你来了这个书店就不想走了呢——里面有可爱的猫咪，超大的二手书专区，还有做起来很舒适的椅子，如果逛街累了，在这坐上一会儿就更有感觉了，周围书香弥漫，为疲惫的心、疲惫的脚步卸下沉重的负担。Prince Edward County素来以其酒庄&葡萄园、当地农产品、手工艺品、海滩上的Sandbanks省立公园、单车骑行道而出名。
离多伦多的距离：215公里，两个半小时车程
乘公共交通的路线：从多伦多坐30分钟的GO Train到Belleville，Belleville距Picton有30分钟车程，但是相比之下，还是自驾更嗨。
Jim Cuddy Band - Picton Ontario December 2014
The Jim Cuddy Band's performance at the Regent Theatre in Picton Ontario was an unfrogettable and thoroughly enjoyable evening. Great musicians combining with the melodic voice of Jim Cuddy produce pure musical enjoyment. Jim plays with such great enthusiasim. He also connects with the audience through his story telling and song backgrounds and creates a special intimacy with his audience. Its hard not to sing along with each song or be totally overwhelmed when the band plays 5 Days in May. This is one band not to be missed and if you get the chance to see them perform live in a town near you - don't miss the opportunity !
EPA’s 2015 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement: City of Hamilton
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After years of disinvestment, the Rust Belt city of Hamilton, Ohio, has become an emerging hub of innovation and revitalization. With creative vision, strategic planning, and community engagement, the city and Historic Developers, LLC, completed three catalytic, mixed-use projects that reinvigorated the city’s central business district and set the stage for new economic development. The projects helped create a walkable downtown with new amenities, jobs, and housing options and spurred the creation of a formal partnership to buy and redevelop downtown properties.
EPA created the National Award for Smart Growth Achievement in 2002 to recognize exceptional approaches to development that protect the environment, encourage economic vitality, and enhance quality of life. In the past 13 years, 62 winners from 26 states have shown a variety of approaches that states, regions, cities, suburbs, and rural communities can use to create economically strong, environmentally responsible development. EPA's Office of Sustainable Communities manages the awards program.
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Bad Moon Rising - Live at The Acoustic Grill - Picton - Prince Edward County
Bad Moon Rising - Live at The Acoustic Grill - Picton - Prince Edward County
Bad Moon Rising @ The Acoustic Grill
Recorded Live at The Acoustic Grill Feb 24th 2010
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The Jim Cuddy Band - Rose Theatre Brampton 14/15
The Jim Cuddy Band
OCTOBER 29 • 8PM
For tickets and more info please visit rosetheatre.ca
When Jim Cuddy got his first guitar at the age of ten, the first song he learned was Gordon Lightfoot's That's What You Get for Loving Me. Today, 25 years after the formation of Blue Rodeo, Cuddy and Greg Keelor are widely respected as one of Canada's best songwriting teams. An inductee into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and Officer of the Order of Canada, Cuddy has released three critically acclaimed solo albums and his voice, always a voluptuous instrument, has never sounded better.
Sauté Trinbago 2010 - Moko Jumbies 2
From Wikipedia.com
A moko jumbie (also known as moko jumbi or mocko jumbie) is a stilts walker or dancer. The origin of the term may come from Moko (a possible reference to an African god) and jumbi, a West Indian term for a ghost or spirit that may have been derived from the Kongo language word zumbi. The Moko Jumbies are thought to originate from West African tradition brought to the Caribbean.
A Moko Jumbie character may wear colorful garb and carnival masks. They also frequent festivals and celebrations such as Caribbean Carnival.
While the god Moko is from the Kongo (or Congo) and Nigeria, from the Nuapa people, Trinidad has added their own touch to him. Moko, in the traditional sense, is a god. He watches over his village, and due to his towering height, he is able to foresee danger and evil. His name, Moko, literally means the diviner and he would be represented by men on towering stilts and performs acts that were unexplainable to the human eye. In one remote tribe, the Moko rises from a regular mans' height to the skies fluidly with no help and descends similarly to leave others to wonder how he performed such an act.
The Moko arrived in Trinidad by walking all the way across the Atlantic Ocean from the West coast of Africa, laden with many, many centuries of experience, and, in spite of all inhuman attacks and encounters, yet still walks tall, tall, tall. (John Cupid, Caribbean Beat) The idea of the Moko survived by living in the hearts of African descendants during slavery and colonial life to eventually walk the streets of Trinidad in a celebration of freedom, Carnival. While this figure was rooted in African heritage, Trinidad adapted the figure, notably by adding on Jumbie or ghost to the name. The by the early 1900's Moko Jumbies had become an element of Trinidad's Carnival. This figure would walk the streets of Port of Spain and other cities protecting the city and revelers from evil. As part of his role in Carnival the Moko Jumbie would accept donations from onlookers in upper floors of buildings. However, his notable figure of Carnival slowly faded until a drastic revival.
By the early 1990's Moko Jumbies were essentially non-existent in Carnival, until two men brought this tradition back. These men, namely Moose and Dragon, have brought the Moko Jumbie back to a place of prominence in Carnival and created a new kind of Moko Jumbie. One man originally brought the idea to them as well as the knowledge of how to make stilts. The style of stilts they walked was very similar to the modern day ones but with one main difference, they had no front leg brace. This changed when a man named Ben Block from Canada, a random traveler, came to Trinidad with a pair of stilts. He had a frontal brace on the upper leg and the Trinidadians took inspiration from this design and used it in their own. Now there are two main Moko Jumbie bands in Trinidad, Watusi and Kilimanjaro, as well as several smaller ones. So while the idea of the Moko came from Africa, Trinidad has made it its own.
Ken Tizzard Home - How to Play... by request...
Ken Tizzard - Home instruction by request
No Dark No Light 2015 Storey House Records available now at kentizzard.com
Very few Canadian musicians have had as fascinatingly diverse a career as Ken Tizzard. In over two decades as a professional musician, he has gone from plying his trade as the charismatic bassist in top Canadian rock bands The Watchmen and Thornley (he is featured on six gold and platinum records) to then emerging as an eloquent roots-based singer/songwriter and guitarist with a prolific solo career.
The songs on No Dark No Light drawn from the well of Tizzard's own emotions and life story are equally compelling. The complex dynamics and crisp finger-picking guitar of Home is reminiscent of Bruce Cockburn, and the song (already a live favourite) was inspired by Tizzard's visit to his former hometown of St. John’s, Newfoundland.
That was written after going there on my tour with Ron Hynes in 2014, says Ken. I was amazed at how much the city was changing. At first I felt a sense of longing for the past and a sadness for how things were moving. This sentiment was quickly replaced by a sense of satisfaction and pleasure I have for my memories and the amazing place where I grew up.
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Moving to The Country
Country Music
The All Star Big Band Toronto Jazz festival 2016
The All Star Big Band Toronto playing at the Jazz festival Toronto 2016
1953 Studebaker - Leaving Drag Race & Drive Home
1953 Studebaker - Picton Armdrop Drag Race
September 20, 2014
Leaving the race and driving home. The entire trip is almost an hour, so this is just a few segments. Might be one more to follow from this selection.
Gear: GoPro 3+ Black @ 1080p superview
The Strokes
The Strokes are an American rock band formed in New York City in 1998, consisting of Julian Casablancas (lead vocals), Nick Valensi (guitar, backing vocals), Albert Hammond, Jr. (guitar, backing vocals), Nikolai Fraiture (bass guitar) and Fabrizio Moretti (drums, percussion).
Upon the release of their debut album Is This It in 2001, the group met wide critical acclaim. Since then, the band has maintained a fan base in New York City and elsewhere in the United States, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Ireland, Canada, France, Brazil and Australia. A number of members have embarked on a variety of side projects, though they regrouped for a fifth album, titled Comedown Machine, released on March 26, 2013. They have sold over 5 million albums.
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