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Club Events 2006 : 2006-12-31 : CCC - Reveillon 2007, and COC - Ice Skating - Bowness Lagoon

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COC - Ice Skating - Bowness Lagoon We had a terrific evening, temperature-wise, for skiing at Bowness Lagoon! A BIG group turned out and it was a fun COC reunion of club members for many of us. A special welcome to several new members who joined us for the very first time! I want you to know that this skating event was quite different from many of our usual events in that the group size was larger than for other activities, and having us arriving at various times as well as being scattered all around the lagoon made it difficult to find and get to know other members. I hope you will return for other smaller group-sized outings, and I hope you will come to know and love this club and its members as much as I do!
CCC - Reveillon 2007, Brazilian Style - Show and Midnight Celebration Brazilian New Year's Celebration. Brazilian Live Music - with Celia. Célia Enestrom with VINTAGE BRASIL band from Vancouver Celia Enestrom, a Brazilian singer in the strongest traditions, has a beautiful, versatile, rhythmic voice that can move between being sleek and sensual, strong and robust with a intriguing jazz snappiness that smacks of Nina Simone or Sarah Vaughn. Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil she grew up influenced by a variety of styles and rhythms such as bossa nova of Joao Gilberto, samba of Escolas de Samba, chorinho of her musical family and Brazilian pop strongly influenced by the Tropicalia movement from Bahia. After spending 10 years performing in Buenos Aires, Argentina Celia's musical influences reflect her unique South American flavor. Brazilian at heart- her bossa nova, her samba, samba rock and chorinho all flow ethereally from her tropicalismo spirit. Celia has moved successfully through the Vancouver Jazz scene.Meeting and influencing many local musicians as well as combining her skills with other Brazilians who have come to perform in Canada. Among them Brejera band, Dezubicados, Bossa and Nova, Aché Brasil band and Zazueira band. Along with her talents she is a musical producer, an actor and a painter about to graduate from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. NOTE we have to buy tickets quickly! To get on the event list, please add your name to the waiting list and then send your payment in to the Treasurer asap! (Payment Info) I am very sorry to say this was not one of the best events I've attended... I guess I'm a sucker for professional promo photos and promises of hand-drums (definitely a weakness of mine). I apologize for what I'm about to say to those who put in a lot of hard work to make this event happen with the Brazilian cultural center. It is always so disappointing when something you put a lot of work into falls flat of what you hoped it would be. Anyway, on to my honest opinions... The sound of the band was really quite bad, which I attribute largely to a bad sound man (who lounged back, watching the girls, checking his voice mail, and doing generally nothing when he should have been paying attention to his sound mix). We know the sound system was capable of sounding good because the pre-recorded music used between sets sounded great (and I'm sure to the dismay of the band, was the only thing that got the crowd up enthusiastically dancing), but the sound mix of the band was terrible. I know that drummer was drumming up some fabulous sounds, but we couldn't HEAR any of them (except for when he was using a stick instead of his hands). The base guitar, which should just provide an underlying supplemental structure to the other instruments, dominated and the other guitar was hardly heard. The singer had good pipes, a lovely voice and great stage presence, but there wasn't much she could do with the terrible mix that was trying to prop her up. Additionally, I think the band needs to take some lessons in crowd management... get your tempo up, and keep it there if you want to keep people on the dance floor. There was about 10% good danceable music to about 90% of too slow, too weird, too off, or too experimental for the dance crowd to enjoy. A million years ago I used to work in a dance club as a DJ and choosing your songs, tempos and mixes wisely was the cardinal rule to put on a good show that people will want to dance to. I knew this poor band was in trouble when they couldn't get folks on the dance floor but the canned dance party queued up during their break sparked immediate enthusiastic bouncing and conga-lining through the room. Upon their return, they tried to keep the momentum going but fizzled quickly and the singer ultimately resorted to singing along with some canned music while the band quietly disappeared around her. They made one last-ditch effort after the room had cleared and there were maybe 20 or 30 people left, mostly the extremely drunk and the small children (how's that for a scary mix). The crowd did manage to have a great time with, what I'm assuming was, very popular Brazilian music, singing and dancing along to their faves that were piped in to fill the gaps. Fortunately for me, there was a bit of a silver lining... I had "Snarky Snarkerson" on my arm for the evening who kept me in stitches with his critiques of the dancing antics of "Yuppie Yupperson" and his partner "Thongy (Wide Angle) Thongerson", "Twitchy Twitcherson" and his partner "Skinny Skinnerson", "Grampy Gramperson" in his tie and sneakers, "Frizzy Frizzerson" and "Spazzy Spazzerson" (actually, he called this one "Barney" but that didn't fit with my naming convention) and many other dancing stars as the crowd tossed aside the band and partied it up to the recorded greats. Again, I apologize to everyone from the Brazilian community and Brazilians in general for trashing what I wished for their sake as much as mine, had been a better show. I'm glad that people were able to buck up and make the best of the evening in the end. -- Rhonda

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COC - Ice Skating - Bowness Lagoon

We had a terrific evening, temperature-wise, for skiing at Bowness Lagoon! A BIG group turned out and it was a fun COC reunion of club members for many of us.

A special welcome to several new members who joined us for the very first time! I want you to know that this skating event was quite different from many of our usual events in that the group size was larger than for other activities, and having us arriving at various times as well as being scattered all around the lagoon made it difficult to find and get to know other members. I hope you will return for other smaller group-sized outings, and I hope you will come to know and love this club and its members as much as I do!

CCC - Reveillon 2007, Brazilian Style - Show and Midnight Celebration

Brazilian New Year's Celebration. Brazilian Live Music - with Celia.

Célia Enestrom with VINTAGE BRASIL band from Vancouver

Celia Enestrom, a Brazilian singer in the strongest traditions, has a beautiful, versatile, rhythmic voice that can move between being sleek and sensual, strong and robust with a intriguing jazz snappiness that smacks of Nina Simone or Sarah Vaughn.

Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil she grew up influenced by a variety of styles and rhythms such as bossa nova of Joao Gilberto, samba of Escolas de Samba, chorinho of her musical family and Brazilian pop strongly influenced by the Tropicalia movement from Bahia. After spending 10 years performing in Buenos Aires, Argentina Celia's musical influences reflect her unique South American flavor.

Brazilian at heart- her bossa nova, her samba, samba rock and chorinho all flow ethereally from her tropicalismo spirit.

Celia has moved successfully through the Vancouver Jazz scene.Meeting and influencing many local musicians as well as combining her skills with other Brazilians who have come to perform in Canada. Among them Brejera band, Dezubicados, Bossa and Nova, Aché Brasil band and Zazueira band. Along with her talents she is a musical producer, an actor and a painter about to graduate from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design.

NOTE we have to buy tickets quickly! To get on the event list, please add your name to the waiting list and then send your payment in to the Treasurer asap! (Payment Info)

I am very sorry to say this was not one of the best events I've attended... I guess I'm a sucker for professional promo photos and promises of hand-drums (definitely a weakness of mine).

I apologize for what I'm about to say to those who put in a lot of hard work to make this event happen with the Brazilian cultural center. It is always so disappointing when something you put a lot of work into falls flat of what you hoped it would be. Anyway, on to my honest opinions...

The sound of the band was really quite bad, which I attribute largely to a bad sound man (who lounged back, watching the girls, checking his voice mail, and doing generally nothing when he should have been paying attention to his sound mix). We know the sound system was capable of sounding good because the pre-recorded music used between sets sounded great (and I'm sure to the dismay of the band, was the only thing that got the crowd up enthusiastically dancing), but the sound mix of the band was terrible. I know that drummer was drumming up some fabulous sounds, but we couldn't HEAR any of them (except for when he was using a stick instead of his hands). The base guitar, which should just provide an underlying supplemental structure to the other instruments, dominated and the other guitar was hardly heard. The singer had good pipes, a lovely voice and great stage presence, but there wasn't much she could do with the terrible mix that was trying to prop her up.

Additionally, I think the band needs to take some lessons in crowd management... get your tempo up, and keep it there if you want to keep people on the dance floor. There was about 10% good danceable music to about 90% of too slow, too weird, too off, or too experimental for the dance crowd to enjoy. A million years ago I used to work in a dance club as a DJ and choosing your songs, tempos and mixes wisely was the cardinal rule to put on a good show that people will want to dance to. I knew this poor band was in trouble when they couldn't get folks on the dance floor but the canned dance party queued up during their break sparked immediate enthusiastic bouncing and conga-lining through the room. Upon their return, they tried to keep the momentum going but fizzled quickly and the singer ultimately resorted to singing along with some canned music while the band quietly disappeared around her. They made one last-ditch effort after the room had cleared and there were maybe 20 or 30 people left, mostly the extremely drunk and the small children (how's that for a scary mix).

The crowd did manage to have a great time with, what I'm assuming was, very popular Brazilian music, singing and dancing along to their faves that were piped in to fill the gaps.

Fortunately for me, there was a bit of a silver lining... I had "Snarky Snarkerson" on my arm for the evening who kept me in stitches with his critiques of the dancing antics of "Yuppie Yupperson" and his partner "Thongy (Wide Angle) Thongerson", "Twitchy Twitcherson" and his partner "Skinny Skinnerson", "Grampy Gramperson" in his tie and sneakers, "Frizzy Frizzerson" and "Spazzy Spazzerson" (actually, he called this one "Barney" but that didn't fit with my naming convention) and many other dancing stars as the crowd tossed aside the band and partied it up to the recorded greats.

Again, I apologize to everyone from the Brazilian community and Brazilians in general for trashing what I wished for their sake as much as mine, had been a better show. I'm glad that people were able to buck up and make the best of the evening in the end.

-- Rhonda

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