Hi Everyone. A quick update – I wrapped up my class at VST on Friday afternoon, and we’re now on the road for our longest tour ever, with 21 djembes, a guitar, flute, small PA, luggage and us in in our little car! We’re enroute to the Hymn Society AGM in Northfield, Minnesota, at the moment, where we’ll be doing a sectional on congregational drumming this week. Then we make our way into southern Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with workshops and concerts along the route, in time for the 138th Annual Encampment in Berwick, NS, where I’ll be leading music with my good buddy Ll’yd MacLean, for the fourth year in a row. About 1000 people onsite for ten days straight, with worship, choir and many drummers to make music with – such fun! In August we start the trek back home, with workshops and concerts coast to coast, arriving back on the West Coast at the end of the month. If we’re in your area, we’d love to see you at one of our events!
Crossroads United Church and Happy Canada Day!
As of July 1, 2009, Bruce is starting a new job, as music minister at Crossroads United Church in North Delta, BC! Royal Heights United Church, the church we have called home for the past six years, has merged with a neighbouring church, St. John’s – Strawberry Hill United Church, and so we are moving to a new church home at 7655 120 Street, Delta, BC. It is a whirlwind time for us right now: we’ve just moved our own house over the past few days, the first service at Crossroads is July 5, 10:30am, Bruce teaches at VST Summer School July 6-10, and then we hit road for a mammoth, coast-to-coast summer tour out to Halifax and back, arriving home in late August. As always, all of our events are up our events page. We hope to sing and drum with you soon, either at home or somewhere enroute across the country!