Goderich Ontario Canada, about 2 1/2 hours from Rick. I envy Rick his access to the 12th Fret music store, for out here on the shore of Lake Huron we've only one pathetic excuse for a music store. (It's a small market, granted, but the store itself is unkempt, unimaginitively stocked, irregularly open, oh-oh, I'd better watch my blood pressure...) This is also radio wasteland, the CBC being the only station of quality available. Those complaints aside, it is a lovely place to live with lots of other distractions. Of the 7500 or so souls here, there are few who would qualify as undesirables, and many who give their heart and soul to the good-naturedness of the place. Musically, there are few live venues except a very good monthly coffee house, and the annual Goderich Celtic Roots Festival, and Celtic College. A couple of bars have some live entertainment sometimes, but it's usually too pop for my tastes. Music is promoted with several good choirs, including a children's choir, a town band, a pipe band, and recently the Legion has been sponsoring a semi-regular jam night (though it seems to be loosing the attention of young folks). Lots of nice parks and a great waterfront, super architecture, town square, decent shopping for anything except music, river and lake fishing, cottaging, boating, camping etc...

Lots of music instruction here too, including myself.

Closer to the time I'll post details of the Celtic Festival and College.

Mooh.