Swan Song/COTR

One last picture of us performing at Winnipeg's Folklorama -- this was the final night of the festival, after a total of 29 shows in seven days, played before a combined audience of over 16,000 people. Wendy took this photo of us performing "Barrett's Privateers", literally an hour or so before we packed up for the last time, and our family began the 2400 kilometre trek to Toronto.



It has to be said, one last time:

I'm really going to miss these guys.

As I've noted to several friends out here in Ontario, if this was the last secular band that I'll be so heavily involved in, to quote the late Mike Yaconelli, "What a ride!"

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On a completely unrelated note, we've found a church to connect with out here. Check out Church on the Rock at their online home. They meet in a pub on Mohawk College's campus, and twice a month host 700+ youth and young adults at their Alternative outreach service in Mohawk's big auditorium. The core people of COTR have enthusiastically embraced us as a family, and we're looking forward to being part of a very radical bunch of crazies. Dave Overholt (the planting pastor of this six-year-old youth church) is certifiably nuts. I think we're going to be good friends.

This really does feel like a whole new chapter!