Anybody who knows me knows that I like music - of all types.  I particularly like making music - especially swing and dixieland.

Back in May, I was asked to MC the annual spring concert of the Highlands Festival Singers.  Our director, Melissa Stephens had arranged for another act to play a couple of sets on the program in order give the choir a bit of a break.  This act consisted of Walter Tose, a math teacher at the high school, playing guitar and Greg Hamilton, a former student of Melissa's, playing piano.

Every once in a while, you get a really pleasant surprise.  I don't know exactly what I was expecting, but Walter and Greg were about 16 bars into their first song and I realized this guy on piano is really good ! 

After the weekend's concerts, I checked out Greg's website (http://www.thefreekeys.ca/).  Wendy's daughter, Devon, manages a pub down in the Newmarket area (St Alban's in Holland Landing) and I thought that Greg's solo repertoire would be a great fit for Devon's Friday night crowd.  So I told Devon how good I thought Greg was, and she contacted him and set up a gig for this past Friday night.

Wendy and I went down to the pub on Friday and had dinner and hung around for Greg's show.  What a great time !  Lots of great Billy Joel tunes and a lot of other classic rock stuff.  The guy amazes me ...  great sense of humour, reads his audience well, good crowd interaction.  I thoroughly enjoyed myself !

I only hope our crowd didn't convince April to never attend one of Greg's shows again.