Friday August 7th
The CHCH Mainstage |
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4:30pm |
Number Stations |
5:15pm |
Lost In Film |
6:30pm |
The Box |
8:00pm |
Men Without Hats |
9:30pm |
Psychedelic Furs |

I was informed about this video by Dan, a close friend of “I Mother Earth”.
This video is the complete “I Mother Earth” Concert at “Its Your Festival” in Hamilton. I wanted to shoot that show, but there was no way that I get out to Hamilton on July 10 2015.
Thanks to the gcarn YouTube channel for creating this video and making it available on YouTube.
“I Mother Earth” is an amazing band. I’ve seen them do a hour and half set and then come off stage and immediately do a meet and greet with fans. No break whatsoever. This is group of Musicians, “who really care about their fans“.
Video courtesy of the gcarn YouTube channel
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Back in 1879 the Toronto Industrial Exhibition was born.
That name stayed until 1912 when the Toronto Industrial Exhibition was officially renamed the Canadian National Exhibition.
The photo is of a poster for the Toronto Industrial Exhibition from 1885. Neat time capsule.
Photo is courtesy of the Canadian National Exhibition facebook page
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I think that this provides sound advice for any relationship, not just marriage.
I especially like the idea that each party in a relationship should be able to spend time apart doing their own thing(s).
The relationship then grows when both parties later share their individual experiences with each other.
Cool post, glad for the opportunity to reblog it.
Vincent Banial
The first time that I saw “I Mother Earth” perform was at Cosmo MusicFest. They set lasted about 1.5 hours and on a very sunny day. After their set finished the band did not head to an air-conditioned area. Instead they all headed to the side of the stage for a meet and greet with their fans. No break what so ever. Rarely does one see such commitment by a Band to their fans.

Photo of Martina Sorbara performing with Dragonette at the CNE Bandshell. Photo Credit Vincent Banial and Uniquely Toronto

Photo of Dragonette. Photo credit Vincent Banial
Dragonette has released a brand new single which is titled “Let The Night Fall”.
They have posted this new single on the Hype Machine site. Please click on this line to visit the Hype Machine website and then click on the Play Icon to listen to the song,
Hope that you enjoy the new music from Dragonette. If you like the new single then show your support of Superb Canadian Talent by purchasing it for your collection.
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I had previously posted some photos from the Al Di Meola concert at the Toronto Jazz Festival on June 26. That night was also part of my continuing battle with my new Nikon D7000 DSLR.


Bill King, I believe this is the same Bill King who helps run the Beaches International Jazz Festival, was at the Al Di Meola concert and had video taped some of the performance. All the photogs and video shooters were behind the sound board. This video turned out great.
Video is courtesy of the Bill King YouTube channel
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Happy 4th of July to our American Friends and Neighbors.
Red, White, & Blue
| Hunt Name | Happy Fourth of July |
| Hunt Date | 07/01/2015 – 07/31/2015 |
| Applications Date | 06/20/2015 |
| Organisers SL Name | Venus Siemens |
| Any Other Info | Application information can be located on our blog at: http://inkhunts.blogspot.com/ |
| Type of Hunt | Grid Wide Hunt |
| SLurl to starting location |

Courtesy of The Canadian National Exhibition
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I’am Happy because I know I should be!
My life has been packed of sweet, spicy and sour ingredients.. ..mix all together and will create a tasty life..
A mixture of life that will lead us to a half bake, perfectly cook or ended up to an over cooked journey.
.. We only live once..
Cook your life with enough ingredients of great experiences and seasonings of hardships so you be cooked to what should you be..
I’am now cooking my life to a beautiful cup cake…
Pouring it with a finest flour of wonderful people, a cup of milk of a sweet love, a pinch of baking soda of pain, a teaspoon of vanilla of failures, mix with butter of courage, a cup of sugar of happiness, dropped eggs of faith, squeeze a lemon of mistakes…
Now….
Stirring it with full strength to come up with a finest dough of…
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Yes, I finally caught a live LIGHTS performance.
LIGHTS was scheduled to play at WTFest in Brantford on the Sunday. It rained that day. I myself do not mind, but my camera gear does not like getting soaked. Vincent did not get back to Brantford on Sunday. Apparently LIGHTS did perform that day. Was rather unhappy that I missed it.
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Here is another link to a new post on our Facebook page. I am unable to embed Facebook video posts.
I learned long ago that Google is your friend. I do random Google searches to see how this site ends up in the search results.
Doing a Google search for “Festival of Friends“, I found “Uniquely Toronto” near the top of the page. We are just below Reverbnation, which is a massive Internet site. We also made it just above the official “Festival of Friends” Facebook page.
I’m rather surprised, stunned and very Thankful for your help and support.
You folks have helped to spread the word about “Uniquely Toronto“, literally all around the globe.
I’m just one guy who wanted to share his love of Music and Concert Photography. It is you folks who are letting the World know about “Uniquely Toronto” and I again Thank You.
There is no way that some guy from Toronto running a small blog could rank higher in Google Search Results, than really huge internet sites. You folks have helped to make the impossible – surprisingly possible.
I’m stunned, humbled and very grateful. Thank You, Thank You and Thank You…
Vincent Banial, who runs a tiny blog called “Uniquely Toronto“.
Here are some photos of “The Jessica Stuart Few” performing on Monday, June 29th at St. James Park in Toronto.
Here are a few more photos from the Gloryhound concert at WTFest in Brantford.
Gloryhound is an awesome Rock N Roll band from Canada’s East Coast. They are signed with eOne Music Canada.

The Festival of Friends is without a doubt the best Music Festival that I have ever covered. It is held every year, now at the Ancaster Fairgrounds.
The Festival of Friends is not just about Music. It is more like an amazing shorter and smaller version of the CNE. There is a Midway. There are all sorts of really good food vendors. There are halls where things like Automobiles are on display. Of course there is a Beer Garden.
The Main Stage is at the lower end of a small hill. Great line of sight from front to back and from the sides.
Lots of on-site parking, except when one the Bands lands on the cover of Rolling Stone and there is another huge band set to play the same night. I’m thinking about a few years back, when The Sheepdogs were scheduled to play on a Friday night at the Festival of Friends. They had just hit the big time making the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine.
The festival had more visitors in that one night, than they usually got during all three days. Cars were parked all the way up to Hwy 403. The huge festival parking lots were jammed full.
I was incredibly lucky to have gotten there in the day time, before the madness started. People were flowing in the festival grounds until the bands started started playing. The Security people which take care of the Photogs were all stunned at the massively huge turnout. I heard numbers over 50K, up to around 75K people.
In a perfectly Canadian way, the evening went down without any incident that I was aware of. The fans Rock N Rolled and enjoyed the shows.
The Festival of Friends posted their show schedules earlier this week. Please mark your calendars. This is a Music Festival that is really worth going to. Superbly organized. Safe and Family Friendly. Always an amazing list of bands which will hit the stage at the FOF.
So without further typos from Moi, the following is the latest Festival of Friends Schedule:
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Finally got a chance to visit the Luminato Festival, in Toronto this year. We had shot a lot of concerts at the 2014 Luminato Festival. I really enjoyed the low key,, up close and personal concerts. Huge contrast on Friday night, when I later headed to Nathan Phillips Square which was jam packed with people taking in a Toronto Jazz Festival concert.
Photo of “Jessica Mitchell” performing at the 2015 Luminato Festival, in Toronto
“Al Di Meola” performed last night at the Toronto Jazz Festival.
Below are some photos from that “Al Di Meola” concert.

Al Di Meola performing on June 25 at Nathan Philips Square as part of the Toronto Jazz Festival.
The “Art of the Storm” is an amazing Time Lapse video of a Supercell developing. It was shot in South Dakota near Rapid City on June 1, 2015.
Nicolaus Wegner, the Photographer, setup his Canon 5dmk2 on a tripod and shot this at one frame per second.
Permission to embed this video was granted by Nicolaus Wegner.
Please click on this line to visit Nicolaus’s Vimeo site, for more awesome Storm Chasing videos.
Art of the Storm from Nicolaus Wegner on Vimeo.
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A new five song EP (titled “Monophone Heart“) is about to released by Toronto’s “The Key Frames“. This new EP was produced by DEREK DOWNHAM, who had previously worked with Serena Ryder.

If you make the wrong choice, life will give you another chance to make the right choice. Events will repeat, but the actors will be different. Everything could be different, except that which you are supposed to learn – ie the core reason for the event. I believe that every Human being has a predefined Timeline.
Below are two examples, which were in the News.
A long time ago, there was a shooting at the Eaton Centre (in Toronto) food court (UPDATE: I believe that it occurred on Sat. June 02 2012). That day a female American Tourist was eating in that Eaton Centre Food Court. Suddenly she felt ill and compelled to leave the Eaton Centre and go outside. Seconds after she left, a Gunman entered the Food Court. He went to the exact location where this woman had been eating. He proceeded to shoot people in the Food Court. Had that woman been there, she would have died. I will dig out the News Reports of this. This post is based on “facts”.
This is where the concept of a Timeline comes in. Death is not random in my opinion. The woman discussed above had reached a point where her Timeline “in this life”, had come to an end.
About one month after the Eaton Centre Food Court shooting, Jessica Ghawi, this same woman had returned back home to the US. She and her boyfriend went to see the premiere of a new (at the time) Batman movie (UPDATE: The Dark Knight Rises) (UPDATE: on Friday July 20 2012 in Denver Colarado).
As the Batman movie started, a stranger had entered the theater via a side door. That stranger pulled out a gun and started shooting people. Jessica Ghawi was shot and killed. Yes, the very same women that had missed getting shot at the Eaton Centre in Toronto about a month prior, was shot and killed. This is all documented in News Reports.
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/07/20/jessica-ghawi-redfield-batman-shooting_n_1688871.html
Her Timeline had come to an end, and so did her life.
In another situation a couple was vacationing in Brazil on the Pacific coast. Their vacation had ended and so they headed for the airport, to get a flight back to Europe. They missed their flight. I forget why. The plane that they should have gotten on, ended up falling out of the sky and now sits at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the eastern coast of South America. UPDATE June 2019 – Johanna Ganthaler and her husband Kurt were the couple who missed the flight.
UPDATE; June 2019 – Found a new link (the one above died). They were vacationing in Brazil. They had missed getting on Air France Flight 447, which crashed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
They took a different flight and headed home (Germany, if my memory is correct). About a month later they were involved in a serious automobile crash. A piece of windshield cut off the Wife’s head and the Husband died later in the hospital. Again I believe that their Timeline had ended. I’ll find the News Reports about this.
UPDATE Jun 2019 – that accident was in Austria and not in Germany. I cannot find the news article with the details of the accident and that the husband also died later in the Hospital. I added Updates instead of rewriting the post.
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