Review: The Whiteley Family Gospel Show! Dec4/TO

Subject: RE: Review: The Whiteley Family Gospel Show! Dec4/TO
From: black walnut
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 10:33 PM

Yikes! We're in danger of turning them into Canadian Idols!

They drink Lake Ontario water just like the rest of us.

~b.w.

Subject: RE: Review: The Whiteley Family Gospel Show! Dec4/TO
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 04:13 PM

Ken was born in the US. He is a phenomenal performer and damned good record producer.

Subject: RE: Review: The Whiteley Family Gospel Show! Dec4/TO
From: Big Mick
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 04:07 PM

Want to feel utter panic and a complete sense of doom?? Follow Ken on a stage. I had to follow him at Rick's CD release broadcast and felt my performing career ending before my eyes ...... LOL.

He is an amazing performer and if his kin are of the same cloth, then this must have been a spectacular show. What the hell is it with Canada...the water???

That city and country is so loaded with talent.

Mick

Subject: RE: Review: The Whiteley Family Gospel Show! Dec4/TO
From: black walnut
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 03:54 PM

I can't believe that no one responded to this thread when I posted it earlier in the month. It was quite an historical event, really. Each one of the Whiteley's has a musical career of his/her own. As a family they are Canadian legends. Ken Whiteley just won the Estelle Klein Award at this year's Ontario Council of Folk Festivals Conference in Kingston. To see them together, singing as a family, was like joining them in their living room for a singaround...a relaxed and joyous event.

~b.w.

Subject: RE: Review: The Whiteley Family Gospel Show! Dec4/TO
From: black walnut
Date: 04 Dec 05 - 06:16 PM

I thought I should say that Toronto is in Canada, remembering that Mudcat is an international enterprise and all.

~b.w.

Subject: The Whiteley Family Gospel Show! Dec4/TO
From: black walnut
Date: 04 Dec 05 - 05:07 PM

I just got back from the FIRST EVER Whiteley Family Gospel Show - at Hugh's Room in Toronto. Ken Whiteley, Chris Whiteley, Jenny Whiteley, Dan Whiteley, Ben Whiteley, Jesse Whiteley, and Caitlin Hanford (Chris' wife). WOW! Fabulous! What talent!

Voices plus....guitar, harmonica, resophonic, mandolins, keyboard, Hammond organ, snare, standup bass, trumpet....am I missing anything?

Highlights for me were:

What a Wonderful World
Just a Closer Walk with Thee
Golden
On a High High Mountain
Travelin' the Highway Home

~b.w.