Cut from the Same Cloth?!

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Hey, how did Jack and Meg embed themselves on UrbanFlute?!? The music of The White Stripes can be found all the way from The Royal Opera House to your local bowling lanes…

I think it’s the first time I have ever left a taxi with it’s meter running, but it was worth it! Just finished with exams in Winnipeg, and on an impulse I stopped in and recorded in the historic setting of the Uptown Bowling Lanes. Originally opened as a movie theatre in 1931, this wonderfully preserved buiding was alive with the sounds of kids’ birthday parties on a Saturday afternoon …the message from these short samples of grade 2 RCME flute studies? Have fun when you practise, as if you’re having a blast with friends at the bowling lanes!

It’s definitely reassuring to learn that this band out of Detroit in their current ‘Ocean to Permafrost‘ tour here in Canada, has also taken a spontaneous approach to connecting with their audience, offering intimate concerts in unusual settings (including bowling lanes!)…gee, UrbanFlute and The White Stripes: cut from the same cloth?! And that tunnel at the end of The Hardest Button To Button looks a tich familiar.

This was actually the second time I had kept a taxi idling, the first time was earlier in the same ride across town, when I stormed the historic Assiniboine Tower.

Funny, I didn’t get quite the same reaction at the bowling lanes as these guys did on a local transit bus in Winnipeg recently!

Photo: Ewen Spencer