{"id":682,"date":"2008-05-25T13:21:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T20:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=682"},"modified":"2008-05-25T13:21:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T20:21:40","slug":"80s-night-a-the-broom-and-i-missed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"80’s night a the broom and I missed it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darcey’s<\/a> such a sweetheart.\u00a0 He’s got one of the best weekly blues pod casts on the net and a few weeks back he held an 80’s night for me simply because I suggested one.\u00a0 What an awesome fellow.<\/p>\n

Last night he held a second 80’s night and I missed it.\u00a0 I was out celebrating with my band-mates at the annual ceilidh.\u00a0 Once we’d all gotten over our initial performance anxiety it turned out to be a great night.\u00a0 Although, I’m sure there were a few people in the front rows who saw more than they bargained for when the men were sitting at the table playing their chanters.\u00a0 You read that right.\u00a0 Men.\u00a0 In a girls band.\u00a0 The inclusion of men in the beginner classes makes the EGPB<\/a> a pretty forward looking organization in my books.\u00a0 See, the hubby and I wanted to learn how to play together and didn’t want to have to learn in different bands.\u00a0 We wanted the same instructor – the awesome Pat – and apparently so did our pipe major’s son.\u00a0 The band put it to a vote and the guys were in.\u00a0 I guess you could call them honourary members.\u00a0 However, the band is still entirely made up of women.\u00a0 Alex and Drew are learning to play with the girls but won’t actually be full members – they won’t be playing in concerts or competitions.<\/p>\n

Entertainment was provided by the boys of St. James Gate<\/a>.\u00a0 For those who’ve been to the band ceilidhs or the Up Yer Kilt<\/a>\/Scottish Imports<\/a> sponsored Robbie Burns nights in the past, no introduction is required.\u00a0 The boys are based in Red Deer and always put on an amazing show.\u00a0 The senior band played Jimmy’s set, in honour of the late St. James Gate’s band member Jimmy McMullen, in public for the first time.<\/p>\n

But enough about the ceilidh.\u00a0 The real celebration today is that it’s a few minutes before 2pm, all my papers are finished and have been sent on to the prof’s through the university’s tracking system.\u00a0 Nothing else is due until Friday at noon so I’ll be spending the rest of today catching up on my psych and enviro chem readings.\u00a0 I may even manage to find time to fit in some laundry and vacuuming.\u00a0 Ummm.\u00a0 Never mind.\u00a0 I think I’ll go over to the Broom<\/a>, crank my computer speakers, listen to 80’s music and bury myself in my textbooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Darcey’s such a sweetheart.\u00a0 He’s got one of the best weekly blues pod casts on the net and a few weeks back he held an 80’s night for me simply because I suggested one.\u00a0 What an awesome fellow. Last night he held a second 80’s night and I missed it.\u00a0 I was out celebrating with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}