Concert at Skidegate

Things have e ramped up here and life is a paradox whereas the pace is very slow as you watch … everyone is busy almost every minute.

I was wowed when there was still light in the sky at 9:00 PM. Now my dears, it is still bright at 10:30 I plan to put a photo up on June 22!

On Sunday June 7 we took in a concert in Skidegate which proved to be very interesting. The theme of the evening was “Oceans Alive“, so all the performances connected with that in song and dance. It opened with a group of Haida singers and dancers in traditional costume. They sang a song of welcome in Haida and of in the forest and ocean. We were told of how important the salmon is to this culture. The salmon bring the spirit of the forest to the sea. They are born in the forest streams and return to the forest to spawn and die. The group also talked of how in the creation myths of many cultures, life begins in the sea and how we long to go back to the sea… That was just the colourful introduction to the evening.
There were offerings form the Gwaii Singers, Classical Piano, Atlantic Sea Shanties (by Sean Muise!),Story Poem, Pacific Jug band and a singer/songwriter who being a fisherman’s wife and a fisher herself sang her story with eloquence.

Today we took some time to go part way up Sleeping Beauty and I will leave you with that picture which is well worth more than a thousand words. The little village you see in the distance is Charlotte City.

Until next time ...