Jo & Andrew Smith

In the comments to the "Corporate Wisdom" post below, Pat mentioned that he didn't know that Andrew Smith had a new CD out. That's a tragedy, because if you thought Andrew was a great musician before, wait till you hear this one!

Andrew Smith and his family have been great friends of ours for many years. I've toured with Andrew all across Canada, we've spent many evenings at each other's houses in Winnipeg and now Kelowna, and my daughter Jo has been dancing alongside Andrew's daughter Emma since they were eight years old.

Andrew's latest album, Escape Velocity, is mostly instrumental, and it's absolutely mind-boggling the alternate tunings, tapping and harmonics, and percussive guitar-slapping rhythmns that the guy does. You won't believe it's one guy, on one guitar -- but it's true.

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And because I "just happened" to mention that Jo and Emma have been dancing together for almost a decade now -- Emma was also in the Creator's Dance Studio production with Jo and her dad -- here's another couple of pix of Jo. She's the one leaping like a gazelle across the stage. After the performance, Tami Smith remarked, "She throws herself into everything with such passion, doesn't she?"

True story, that.