May 23, 2005

Alberta’s Centennial Birthday

Well, we woke up today to go over to the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton and sing at Alberta’s Birthday and it was pouring rain. It was an incredibly gloomy day and quite cold actually. It’s Victoria Day today in Canada, so it’s a holiday weekend. Kids don’t have school today or anything and most businesses are closed. So we got down to the Commonwealth at about 12:30 and was hanging out downstairs in the racquetball court room which they made into a dressing room. It was freezing down there. About half an hour later a lady came down and said, “here’s the deal, the show is cancelled”. And we were like ,”What, oh no!! The queens supposed to be coming and everything.” She said that they were still going to have a few of the acts play and the queen was still going to come, but the show would only be about 20 minutes and 80% of the acts were gonna be cut. I asked if I could sing one song acoustically so that the fans who may have come out to see me wouldn’t be disappointed and she said, “it’s really all about the queen”. So my tour manager went to see what was up and it ended up they could only do the acts that were scheduled at the front of the show for the queen’s arrival, so that everything was followed according to plan with all the politics and stuff, all of the documented stuff could not be deviated from, something about protocol with the queen.