The Bills - Music with Bite, Brig

Do You Crave Harmony? 30 years of noted performances
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The Music with Bite series is a season of interactive and intimate Sunday afternoon concerts for all ages. Audiences sing, dance, are introduced to traditional instruments or embark on a magical musical journey. ..

Each event was a refreshing experience where children can sit up close to the artist and after the concert enjoy a complimentary milk beverage and cookies, the first year I worked, and all the performances took place in York Quay Centre, and tickets cost $8 or Family 4 pack $25. Concerts were presented by Jeunesses Musicales, a movement which since 1949 has dedicated its work to youth and musical excellence. Its mission is to promote the development of the arts in Canada by bringing fine music to audiences of all ages.

Mar 20, 2005 1pm

I did a great job opening the house and greeting the patrons as they came in, for the Bills - the Bill Hilly Band that I had been looking forward to all season.These customers of course were little kids, and their families, and I asked every single one of them with eye contact and a big smile, if ohmigosh are those your DANCING shoes? or, do you think we'll get to clap today? or, oh, sing ALONG? ??? Eventually, I could hear the band behind the curtain snickering or laughing outright every once in a while, at some kid's wildly enthusiastic response and so I knew that they knew that this venue, was as keen as the visitors for them, and was doing the job up right...

The band of course, lived up to the hype and did their job up right. Goooooooood playing, and fun talk and jokes and well performed songs and inspired audience participation. It began when they walked into the room from behind the curtain and came up on stage through the people, playing their instruments acoustically like a parade... they stopped and used a bald man's head for some percussion along the way, if you can imagine. Ohmigosh, what a goooooooood show!I remember the boy who had the red flashing lights in his shoes, and who came right up to me as I was rescuing a stage crawler for parental return, and starting doing handstands on the dance floor to flash me his dancing shoes. It made us all laugh. And the very same stage crawler then started following me around until I gave up and just spent the rest of my shift on the dancefloor.

Except for when I bullied the Bidini babies. But that's another story...

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What a fantastic opportunity to sample music of diverse styles and influence in a friendly accessible format. All of the artist selected to perform at these concerts brought an element of interactivity, education and entertainment to their programmes.

Did you pull up a cushion or a seat, and join in this year's fun???