The Unofficial Blue Skies Music Festival Lineup 2011

The Blue Skies Music Festival in Clarendon Ontario has no website and does not announce its lineup in advance.

However, a little work on Google has turned up a number of artists who say they will be there this year.

• Ball and Chain (reliable sources tell me they are participating in a workshop)
• Callum Graham
• Danny Michel
• David Ross Macdonald
• Ferron (not confirmed on her website. Pollstar says she’ll be there. )
• Fred Penner
• Kim Churchill
• Lehera - songs
• Magoo (no indication that he’ll be at Blue Skies on his website, but come on.)
• Matt Anderson
• Saritah - youtube

If you want to go to the festival and you don’t have tickets, my experience is that you may be able to get day passes at the gate and if you’re really lucky, someone may show up with a camping pass just when you do. For more unofficial information on Blue Skies, see my other postings:

• Guide to the Blue Skies Music Festival: Getting There
• Guide to the Blue Skies Music Festival: Jamming
• Guide to the Blue Skies Music Festival: Dancing
• Guide to the Blue Skies Music Festival: Things to Acquire and Bring
• The Unofficial 2009 Blue Skies Music Festival Page

And here's the Environment Canada Forecast for Sharbot Lake

as of Weds, July 27:

Fri

• 29°C
• 18°C

Sat

• 28°C
• 17°C

Sun

• 29°C
• 17°C

Mon

• 30°C
• 18°C

Post festival updates:

I've learned not to trust the Environment Canada forecast even for 1 day in advance when it comes to Blue Skies. It rained for most of Friday until the late afternoon!

Some other artists who were at Blue Skies this year:

• Jonathan Byrd (the fantastic cowboy singer from North Cackalacky)
• Fred Penner (the 20-somethings went berzerk over him)
• Marky Weinstock (performed in children's area on Sunday at 10am)

Other social media on Blue Skies 2011

• Boffin + Wonk - Performers at Blue Skies 2011 - video collection
• Youtube - The Parade
• Flickr Group

A new time saver for me

This week, I found a way to shave time off the food preparation portion of my morning routine.

Almost every day, I heat my breakfast in the microwave. Whether it is a leftover pasta dish or fried rice, I give it one minute and thirty seconds. Since I left my parents home where the microwave timer is a knob and began using keypad timers, I have typed 1-3-0-start. But this week, it finally occurred to me that I could type 9-0-start.

If it takes me a tenth of a second to push that extra button, this innovation will save me 18 minutes over the next 30 years. It will save even more time if one day it makes the difference between catching a bus and missing a bus.

Ancient Greek Graffitti

Manon and I had the pleasure of dining this weekend with her brother and nephews. Before supper arrived, young Daniel illustrated a problem that occurred in ancient Greece when the authorities posted Kraken warnings and then young miscreants came along.