This is when fans' love shined like a diamond mine, beaming with Blue Rodeo memories and appreciative of keyboardist Michael Boguski's extended solo in which he may or may not have been channelling Iron Butterfly.įrom there, it was a barrage of hits which at times had many fans standing and dancing. Having a first set almost exclusively songs from In Our Nature seem to test the crowd, especially the final four tunes before the second of two intermission breaks on the night.īut all was quickly forgiven as the second set opened with Keelor, awash in sparkling red spotlights, cried out the opening lyrics to Diamond Mine. Injecting that Stones tune was a wise choice by Cuddy and Keelor, who quite rightly sensed a restlessness in an audience primed and pumped to hear the familiar songs, but required to politely listen to new material for 10 out of the first 11 songs of the show. Kicking off with the lively New Morning Sun, the strongest track from the new album, the band rattled off six tunes in a row, including Tell Me Again, a catchy Nashville-infused number featuring ace guitarist Bob Egan on the Dobro guitar, from In Our Nature before letting loose with a cover of the Rolling Stones' The Last Time. The tour started in January in Vancouver and ends in March in Montreal. Now a seven-piece outfit but still defined by co-lead vocalists Greg Keelor and Jim Cuddy, Blue Rodeo brought their In Our Nature tour to a not-quite-sold-out Budweiser Gardens RBC Theatre on Saturday night. Liking this band is in our nature as Canadians. Juno Award winners, Order of Canada recipients and musical homebodies, Blue Rodeo may well be the definitive Canadian band - a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll and, for more than 25 years, a whole lot of hard work. Then again, Blue Rodeo isn't just any band. She says that to her, it's not about legal action against those who set the fire, but really about the need to for the community to connect with who they are again.Not many middle-aged bands would spend the winter crisscrossing Canada. "It's an act that shows us how much disconnection from who we are as Anishinaabe." She says that someone setting the lodge on fire is a reflection of the healing that is needed within the community. Our Midewiwin Lodge is all about who we are as Anishinaabe people - Mary Deleary She is a Mide person, healer, within the society. "Our Midewiwin Lodge is all about it's all about who we are as Anishinaabe people," she said.ĭeleary has been part of the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge for 40 years, which is a spiritual society of Anishinaabe people. Mary Deleary says it's a very sad day for the community and says that the cost is far more than financial. It's unclear what the motive behind the fire was at the moment, and CBC News has not received a response from the OPP in London. He called the Ontario Provincial Police Sunday afternoon and he says they told him somebody would be out to look at what happened, although after waiting for a few hours no officers came. "But the way that we teach them is you have to come to ceremonies, and now that is not there, we can't do it." "It's a place of teaching, where we do our ceremonies," Antone said. Tom Chisel revives Midewiwin ceremony, once widespread among Ojibwe.
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