Camrose Big Valley Jamboree
There was the usual small bottle of Patron in our dressing room behind the stage at Camrose Big Valley Jamboree – nothing special – the usual for our ritual toast prior to each performance we do. However this bottle was the one we should have had last year when the stage collapsed. They had saved it for us all year long until we returned. It obviously had a great significance to us since on that day last year Donna Moore was killed and many people seriously injured including Park and our tour manager Mark Botting. We celebrated Donna that evening even though we did not know her. We each said a silent prayer for her and her family before the show. $100,000 dollars was raised in an auction for her kids earlier in the weekend.
The great fans at Big Valley welcomed us back in style as well. To salute them, their country who has sent their own into harm’s way along side of ours, and to remember Donna, we played “The Angels Came Down” just before “Superman 14” to end the set. Thank you all for welcoming us back.
Prior to our set we all had the pleasure of listening to the great Ronnie Milsap who still sings and writes with a conviction rarely heard in county music today.
We are headed up to Niagara Falls for two shows at Fallsview Casino on Thursday and Friday – the 5th and 6th – then to Nova Scotia on Sat.
See You Around…….
The Modern Westerners