I asked my daughter if she wants to sing with me tomorrow in the NYE Tranzac benefit but she’d rather dance. That’s just as good I said. I wonder if I should chance playing All The Things You Are which I have been goofing around with or one of the new songs or one of the old ones. My sister-in-law asked me today if I miss touring and it made me think about playing the Western Front in Vancouver a few years ago, with their grand piano and large screen for projections, and the high school in Osoyoos where they printed my picture with a girl in grade 9 who sung harmony with me at the show, and the Winter festival in Halifax where Heather jumped on stage and took my picture which I used as a publicity shot a few years in a row, and crossing the border that time the guard started laughing when he realized I play accordion and stopped being a thug and just waved me through because he laughed or pitied me. I keep looking at jobs in the university teaching business but really, if I had my choice I would be a touring artist in a heartbeat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"