Gord's annual LA gig?

[Auburn Annie]

http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/celebrities/2009/11/01/11594886-sun.html

IF YOU COULD READ HIS MIND: There is a secret among Canadians in Los Angeles, and it's that singer Gordon Lightfoot plays at this small venue called the Canyon Club in a sleepy little town called Agoura Hills, north of Los Angeles, at least once a year.

The club holds about 200 people, if they're cramped in like sardines.

I caught him playing there last year and it was nothing like attending his shows at bigger venues such as Massey Hall in Toronto.

Instead, it's like being in a living room with everyone crowded around, drinking a beer, Lightfoot kicking back with his guitar, telling tales between his songs.

But this year, his Oct. 21 concert snuck by me -- and many others.

Longtime fan Omar Olson, an American advertising executive whose first big love was from Toronto and who still waxes poetic about most things Canadian, said he does check Lightfoot's tour schedule, and even this one snuck by him.

"I blame myself for not checking the Internet more thoroughly," Olson said.

It didn't help the Canadaphile's disappointment at missing the show. "Gordon Lightfoot's music fills in the spaces and gives words and melody to my feelings of Canada's majesty."

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[Jesse Joe]

Very interesting read. "The club holds about 200 people, if they're cramped in like sardines."

Thanks Annie

[charlene]

sounds like a small venue similar to Hugh's Room in Toronto...very nice and intimate.

[jj]

"it's like being in a living room with everyone crowded around, drinking a beer, Lightfoot kicking back with his guitar, telling tales between his songs"

ok, i checked vid and pics of the the place...that's some BIG living room, lol...i think the author of the post is a romantic

yes, they're cramped in along the bar area sidelines...just like they are at the back bar area at Hugh's....
Canyon club is a dinner theatre....for the folks who get seated at those circular tables and eat, 1/2 are delighted and the other 1/2 wake up the next morning with pinched nerves in their necks:)

i always thought of Massey as pretty small...certainly more homey than any dinner theatre and Gord often tells little stories no matter where he plays...although someone did a post a small and wonderful venue earlier on tour...and old very small opera house, i believe...that's the ticket i'd like

when I first read these post I thought it sounded like Gord was alone with guitar and seated at a house-like party...not quite...i think Gord should do a contest where the winner get's Gord for a house concert...but tell Gord to not just bring a mini amp for the guitar, but a PA twice the size for his vocal mic!:)

i don't think waitresses wandering and clinking plates and glasses works during Gord sets...generally i think booze and Gord gigs do not mix

thanks for the post, it had me envisioning a "Riverboat 2009"

[johnfowles]

"200" is in fact a considerable understatement
Susan and I found the Canyon Club with some difficulty back in April 2005 and sat at one of about 50 or so folding trellis style tables all a right angles to the stage I recall about 10/12 rows each of 5-6 tables plus a seating only area at the rear of the room holding probably another 50 one of whom was Kimberly by design, but yes the venue was definitely crowded. We shared our table as pre-planned with local fan Sheryl Klein and her husband Gabe. I think she wrote a fine review of that concert (in addition to another one a few days later in Las Vegas, up until that point Sheryl had been a prolific poster before something ominous occurred between her and another prominent corfiddler that I never understood but apparently involved Private Messages and an obvious misunderstanding somewhere leading Sheryl to, I feel regrettably, feel she had to publicly start a thread to say "Goodbye":-
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php?p=124098#post124098

[charlene]

Hey Sir John - wouldn't it have been more relevant to post the review rather than dig up some old 'goodbye' post?'
just saying..

[jj]

you read my mind, char, lol...we aint he only one's just sayin

i found the opera house review also from earlier in the year and it was kim by at that also, she gets around CA:)

but i did read john's link and i was invloved there it seems (where i thought it was billw saying farewell)...but i havent seen him either, or did he just nod off? ;)

ps) maybe the energetic sheryl lurks or is back with new id...i remember her as a rabid fan and one who taught us about dradels too...many come and go and have ups and downs...we're basically just toilet seats...i forget what this thread was about...

[brink-]

just a little shit stirring, like the old days.

Sheryl isn't back and doesn't lurk. I am in contact with her occasionally. She is still a fan, still goes to the Canyon Club and has survived without Corfid.

Somethings are better left in the past, John.