Last EVER Zim City gigs

Well the pic is actually still a leftover from BeBops last month. For the Zim City gig we got Andy back to full strength. The rest of the band were now shaking off vistages of winter colds. We've played enough times at Zim City to know the routine. Set it all up once, tear down once but PLAY two nights!! As usual we played pretty much for our own self entertainment as the bar was mostly EMPTY Friday night and not much better Saturday. The CUZ had his friend Brian and a few others but beyond that........playing to ash trays. We still gave it our best. In February we lost a dear friend Bedford to cancer. It would take several pages, well let's be HONEST...it would be a NOVEL of blogging to truly even try to tell Bedfords story so I won't even try! Musically, Bedford had been the banjo player in the Jameson Drovers, the Fish Heads, Big Top Chautaqua, a fellow Fairmont native, a Voyageur and so much more. Memories of jamming with Bedford and the many gigs played with the Drovers will last forever. Sometimes, however, mentally its tough for those of us left behind, to keep moving forward. Sometimes guilt itself creeps in and the dark clouds start hovering above. How can I be standing here trying to enjoy myself, playing the music I love when one of my friends is dead ? It just doesn't feel right!! How do you just "go about life"? As a tribute to Bedford and Don Pavel and other great musicians who have passed on, the one thing TO DO is to keep JAMMING !!!!! We have to keep on keeping on! We are still here and by the grace of God we still have the opportunity to keep living out our dreams. We dedicated many of the songs to Bedford these two nights. Had a shot Jameson Irish whiskey to honor his memory both nights. Our band played on.....into the night....to ash trays....but we were still thankful.....