Little Red Wagon makes the Parade!

How perfect is this? This was a float in the Owen Sound Santa Claus Parade!

 This is Terry and me heading up my laneway in the real deal: my 1962 Buick Special Station Wagon. And below is Terry's very best Sears pose... and mine. Love it!

Toodles Illinois!

Wow,
What a crazy time we had at the Lake County Folk Club! The place was jammed and smokin hot!
It was sooo great to see friends new and old come out to support our first time in Mundelein as My Sweet Patootie. Thanks to Ted for opening the show, the lovely Jerry Thiel for mcing (and the chocolate!!) and Chuck and Jim for getting us up and running with the sound gear so quickly and beautifully.

We love you Lake County!


Sunday, Nov 21, 2010 - 7:00pm
The Lake County Folk Club
Mundelein, IL

The Lake County Folk Club presents My Sweet Patootie.
Reservations to attend concerts are accepted and encouraged.
Some concerts may become "Sold Out" by advance reservations.
Please call 847-271-1584
or email tbradfish@comcast.net to request a reservation.
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Charlotte's Web presented us at the Just Goods Listening Room, a thousand villages shop in Rockford. Their devious plan to get us to do all of our holiday shopping there work dang-it. Thanks to Lani, Josh and the boys for such a great welcome. We're looking forward to the video from the show! 


Lani has already asked us back, so get ready to drag out your friends Rockford! We're gunning for the Mendelsohnn Centre next time! lol


What a super crowd we had. We love it when you laugh at our corniest jokes!
Until next time
Stay Patootified!


Saturday, Nov 22, 2019 - 7:30 pm
Charlotte's Web for the Performing Arts
Rockford, IL

Charlotte's Web presents My Sweet Patootie at the Just Goods Listening Room - 7:30 PM. 201 7th Street, Rockford Illinois US. For tickets and more information call 815 964-2238 or email info@charlotteswebofrockford.org

The Spam Museum!

It was a gorgeous day-off and we got to the museum in good time to be greeted by the super knowlegeble guides! Our friends Pat and Shirley also met us for the tour.

And the mighty Wall of Spam!

Here we are with Spammy!

We headed into the theatre for a short film

Sunday Afternoon Show!

Here's what you missed.

2 pm
The Oak Center General Store
Lake City, MN

The Oak Center General Store presents My Sweet Patootie
67011 HWY 63, Lake City, MN 55041

On hwy 63, 25 miles north of Rochester, 10 miles south of lake city

Email folkforum@riverland.org
or call 507 753 2080 for tickets and information.
(507) 753-2080 for ticket info

Please note this is an afternoon show starting at 2 pm.
$15 reg. to $5 low income

Bothy Folk Club

We love you Mankato! It was great to see some of our Rendevous friends at the Bothy. Thanks for braving the terrible storm! ; )  Bill has invited us back next year so those of you who stayed snug at home can catch our show then. Don't forget we still have our Oak Centre General Store this afternoon and our support set for the Wiyos at the Cedar on Tuesday! Tomorrow if you're not doing anything you can hang out with us at the Spam Museum in Austin MN. Woohoo....
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The Bothy Folk Club

Mankato, MN

The Bothy presents My Sweet Patootie at the
Mankato Area Eagles Club -
708 North Riverfront Drive, Mankato MN.
Doors open at 7pm, concert starts at 7:30pm

For Information about the Bothy Folk Club and tickets
contact Bill Smith at: wailinwillie@gmail.com
or call Gordon: (507) 947-3356, Bix: (507) 388-1316,
or Bill :(612) 756-2984

Midwest Patooties

The Listening Room
Fargo, ND

The Listening Room is Fargo's premier listening room for acoustic music presents My Sweet Patootie. Call 701-237-0230 for tickets and information.

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Thanks for such a great welcome Fargo! You laughed at all our corny jokes! What a good time. Thanks to Scott, Jane and Noah who organized everything and were such gracious hosts. Yet more proof that it's a crazy small world: we have mutual friends with Noah! Check out the magnificent Budabi Brothers

We met these fellas when we used to tour with Tanglefoot. Fantastic show, hilarious banter.

Sun Nov 7 Bound for Glory

Here's the easiest link to listen to our live to air show on Bound for Glory on Sunday Nov 7th, 8pm (ET)

http://wvbr.com/listen


We had so much fun at Bound For Glory! We had a wonderful visit with friends old and new and everyone gave us such a warm welcome. Phil bounded over (pardon the pun) enthusiastically at the first break to invite us to come back for another show!

We had gotten into town fairly early so our new friends Jim and Susan Murphy invited us over to the local Irish pub to hear Susan's celtic trio perform. We listened to Susan, Jerry and Nora's playing over a yummy bowl of beef stew. Comfort food for the ears and belly! There had been a parade earlier that day and there was a pipe band in the pub enjoying a few pints. We joked about how everyone in Ithaca wears kilts. Most of the other folks in the place were wearing plaid of some sort just to prove the rule. We decided the plaid flannel shirts were really up-side-down kilts.

Anywhoo....

A good time was had by all!
Until next time Ithaca!

Here are some shots from our concert taken by Gwen Bullock.

 

Tonight! Heartland At Home - Rochester

SOLD OUT!!!6:00 PM Potluck Dinner
7:00 PM Concert
http://www.heartlandconcerts.org/

A House Concert at the home of Ralph Hunt & Judy Gradford
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Well, the border crossing Saturday morning was a breeze and the weather was perfect for driving.  We got to Ralph and Judy's in no time which meant we had lots of time for visiting. The potluck dinner was fantastic, with folks bringing every dish you could imagine and Ralph in the kitchen cooking up stir fry.  It was so great to see so many of our friends out. WE LOVE YOU ROCHESTER! We're moving onto the big stage out in Webster next time we're in town.

Until then, keep smiling Rochester!

Sandra & Terry

We've Got a New Look!

Holy cow are we stoked! We've been working our patooties off with our good friend and webmistress Lisa Hind to completely over haul our website. Have a look around and let us know what you think on our new guestbook!

England Tour 2010 - Week 4

Monday July 5th this day off was consumed with our quest for getting Terry’s guitar fixed. The tech crew from Hebden Bridge gave us some leads on nearby repair people. We drove to Cleckheaton, home of the Cleckheaton Folk Festival and “The Music Room”, a fantastic music shop. While Terry’s beloved Martin was being worked on we both were treated to a cup of tea while we sample the lovely guitars and violins in stock. I ended up buying an electric fiddle! (photo to come)

Tuesday July 6th we headed to the lovely Bungay, Suffolk in the East Midlands. We were greeted by The Fisher Theatre’s manager Chris Moore who is always so cheerful and witty. Some of our favourite people are in Bungay! His mom Wendy has invited us to perform at one of her garden party house concerts next tour! Chris is heading off to a new position in Yarmouth, overseeing the rebuilding of, then managing a theatre there. We are looking forward to seeing his new digs. We stayed that night at the beautiful Margaret Sheppard B&B that had just been on the garden tour. Margaret was very gracious and let me photograph some of her flowers.

Wednesday July 7th we drove up to Sigs again to get some much needed laundry and television viewing done! We had bought the movie “The Pelican Brief” DVD in a charity shop for £1 and wanted to watch it on a real TV not a laptop! After the show we were doing a bit of channel surfing and guess what was on! The Pelican Brief...figures!


Thursday July 8th we had a wonderful afternoon in the old city of York. After wandering the shambles and sampling the various sights we took some time out to chat with Steve Ritchie back home at the Hundred Mile Music Show in Owen Sound, Ontario. You can listen to the Podcast anytime at the above link. Show #10 - July 8, 2010 at 33min. Afterwards we treated ourselves to a traditional Yorkshire pudding then wandered over to the Evensong at the Minster.

 

We walked back to the Black Swan to do our show for the folk club. Organiser Roland Walls was on a much needed and deserved holiday that night. We wish you well Roland. Chris Euesden was our compere for the evening treated us to a wonderful opening set, as did harpist/singer Sarah Dean who shared a really great cover of the Police tune “Walking on the Moon”.

Friday July 9th we played the Bromsgrove Folk Festival and had a lovely visit/ reunion with Artisan members Hilary Spencer and Brian & Jacey Bedford. What a fun time! The audience was really onboard that night and it was great to hear some of Brian`s new songs when Artisan performed.

Saturday July 10th our last show in the spectacular Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond N Yorks. The A1 was being worked on so we took a detour straight into a big cycling race. It made for a thrilling ride on those B roads! We got to the theatre in no time though and met manager Vaughn Curtis. After our sound check we were treated to a wonderful dinner with our friend Valerie and the Singletons over at Rustique, a lovely French bistro in Richmond. The theatre sound tech Tony was superb and gave us some great leads on UK technical suppliers. He made us look and sound fabulous! The crowd was really fun, lots of banter back and forth throughout the show. We had a lot of laughs discussing the difference between Canadian English and English English. We’ll definitely be back to the Georgian next year according to Vaughn. We visited with friends after the show and after our long lovely farewells made a frantic exit with our gear and headed back down through the A1 detours to Wakefield for the night.

Sunday July 11th back to Manchester to Ken and Julie’s. What wonderful hosts! We have made such great friendships over the years on our tours. We couldn’t make this happen without you!

Monday July 12th we headed into downtown Manchester with Julie to visit the People’s Museum and various other Manchester sites. We lunched at City Hall. We highly recommend it! Our waiter was very charming, the food amazing and you can’t beat the surroundings! Gorgeous.

 

Tuesday July 13th homeward bound! We left for the airport at 11:00am. Our flight was quite delayed, so we treated ourselves to the airport massages and a nice tea. Finally at 6:00pm our plane was ready to board, but failed two take-off attempts due to electrical failures in the navigation system. Now that`s confidence inspiring! 4 ½ hours later we took off and finally arrived in Toronto at 11:00pm. After clearing customs, getting our luggage & gear and finding our ride home we finally arrived up in Owen Sound at 2:30am Canadian time (7:30am UK time) creating a whole new definition to “a long day”. Boy did it feel good to get home!


We remain unkilled, unscratched, and unscathed! We can`t wait to do it all over again. We`re planning our next UK tour for Sep to Oct 2011. Until then it's back to weeding and chickens...See you out there!