Saturday, June 6th - A Big Day

On Saturday, June 6th, we had a pretty big day. It was a day of performing for half of our family. Once the performances were done, the day was followed up by an awesome visit by our friends, Derek and Misty Niles and their two awesome boys, Joshua and Cameron.

The first performance of the day was mine (Evelyn). Back in April, while at a conference, I was sipping a few brewskies with one of the Majors that I worked with. Well, after some delightful conversation and two pints, I was signed up to sing "O Canada" for a military fundaraising event. The event was called the Kingston to Kandahar (K2K) spinathon and it supports Soldier On which is a campaign for soldiers who are severely injured while on a tour of duty. It has always been a dream of mine to sing O Canada to open an event and this was an awesome opportunity. The event took place at the K-Rock Center, the new Kingston arena, infront of over 750 people.


That afternoon, Riley and Brodie had their music recital. They did so wonderful. It was amazing to see them play so well and poised infront of a crowd of people at a young age. Their music teacher Jana Bolton, called them forward and introduced them. Then, they spoke into a microphone and told everyone what tune they were going to play. Brodie played a song called "Handel's Slow Dance." This is a picture of Brodie playing his song.

Riley music piece followed immediately after Brodie. Once again, he spoke confidently into the microphone and announce that he was going to play "A Happy Song" with his Mom. We played a duet together, which is why I am at the front with him.


On top of their individual pieces, the boys and their classmates played a percussion ensemble along with Jana. Riley played a tamborine while Brodie and a girl in their class played the triangle. (The triangle is way more complicated to play than anyone really knows.) The other half of the group played wooden blocks that made a cool "tick tock" sound. The whole group together sounded so cool. The Grande Finale was a vocal piece with all of Jana's students from all levels. She played of course and the kids sang. It was so cute and everyone sounded really good.

After all of that fun, we headed home to hang out with the Niles Crew. Derek is a classmate of mine and Clayton's from RMC. They popped into Kingston for something to do for the weekend and we had a great time.

Well, that's about it for now. Sorry for the added detail, but I must say, I was a very proud Mom and a very excited soloist!!! Evelyn