Cafe Montmartre

4362 Main, Vancouver, BC

After a nearly three month hiatus while we individually gallavanted around Ireland, France, Latvia, Italy, Turkey, Serbia, Austria, and probably a few others, we converged on this little Main Street Cafe in full force, and to our amazement we still remembered most of our tunes despite not having practiced together since late July!

Although we did have some problems remembering what band we were supposed to be in and the names of our bandmates, not to mention which way around we're supposed to hold our instruments, we managed to pull off a fun show that had very few people running out with their ears covered.

Vida, our newest member, was seen (and once we changed the mike, also heard) playing her Prim, which is the new lute-substitute for our band now that Isabella has fallen in love with her trumpet.

Veronica did her vocal solo debut on stage between sets, unfortunately forever scarring her vocalist career by choosing to do so with an absurd little circus ditty.

Mike Dowler joined our Annie and Veronica for a smokin' Irish medley and proved that the clarinet is in fact an excellent medium for expressing Irish music, although I doubt most people could play it fast enough to sound as good as that!

We covered many of our rarely-performed "B-list" tunes, and other party pieces, in over 2 1/2 hours of music.

It was such a success, in fact, that we will try it again on November 14 and December 12, and we may even get around to practicing once or twice before then!