http://www.chrislangan.ca/html/weekend.html
Bring yer woolies. 
djm
I’ll see you there…
Music at the Tranzac club on Friday? if so what time will it get going?
Their web site says sign-in from 5:30-7:30, with the opening concert starting about 7:30. I’ve never known them to start on time … 
djm
'Splain something to me if you get it.
The weekend pass costs more than all the tickets put together. Whassup with that? Am I missing something?
Oh, yeah, and speaking of the weather . . . why again is it you people live up here? 
Stuart
Well now, Stuart, it’s only a $2 difference, and only for members at that. I suspect they made the weekend pass for members $80 to keep it a nice round number so they wouldn’t have to make a lot of change at the door for everyone who paid $78 in cash. For non-members, the $85 for the weekend pass equals the sum of the individual event tickets.
And we like to live up here because there are so few Texans. 
Now that was mean!
You’re not Canadian either, you know.
Stuart
By members, they mean membership in CCÉ. The Chris Langan Weekend started as a surprise birthday party for Chris back when he was alive. Its still very much an informal get together for old friends to meet and share tunes, as opposed to a formal tionól with regimented gradings and classes. It is also not-for-profit and run by volunteers (you can’t fire slaves). The level of teaching is excellent, and the exposure to top notch players (and Harry) is well worth the price.
We all bitch about the timing. Its just about the coldest possible time of the year in Hogtown. Blame it on Chris’s birthday!
I’m not sure about that dig about Texans. They’ve got some awfully pretty girls down there. Unfortunately, nobody from Texas ever thinks to bring any of them along.
djm
Am too! I was born in Oakville, betwixt Toronto and Hamilton. True, my parents were from the U.S., and just because your cat has kittens in the oven doesn’t make them biscuits. But I am a Canadian citizen.
So there.
Stuart, how could you possibly complain about the Canadian weather being from _Houston?_Ugh. I’ll never miss that lovely combination of air pollution and 90% humidity with 95o temperatures.
(p.s. Go Coogs Go. Rice sucks.)
Brad: biscuit/kitten analogy. Loved it. Excellent. And I had no idea your parents accidentally had you on the wrong side of the border.
Janice: Actually, the air quality up here is MUCH worse than Houston’s. Of course, most of Toronto’s pollution is from the Ohio River valley, and therefore it’s American dirt . . . but hey. Houston’s gotten much cleaner in the last 10 years or so.
I’ll take 90% humidity and 95F over -30F wind chill any day!
I wasn’t born in an oven, but I like biscuits! And I like ovens!
Stuart
(Oh, yeah: Can’t spell DUH! without UH. Cougar High! Go Owls!)
I think the beer is set to flow around 6:00 – yumm. Friday night should be fun. The Gala Concert on Sat. night is more formal and the setting inside Trinity-St.Paul is very nice! Here’s a pic from last year with HArry Bradley, Tommy Peoples, Cillian Vallely and a local guitarist and keyboard player.
Are there regulators for that pipe organ?
Yeah, but you have to play them with your feet!
PD.
Once the beer gets flowing, you just might find yerself playing regulators with yer feet too.
Have fun, boys. Guzzle a few of them lovely Canadian IPAs for me.
I’m really disapointed that I can’t go. I have to fly to the 'Peg that weekend…you all drink beer and have a good time on my behalf…
(The Owls still suck. But I really miss biscuits with white gravy and grits…yum)
Is that as in WinniPeg? If it is send me a PM, maybe I can hook you up with some tunes while you’re in town…
jordan
My God…All this talk of Winnipeg, Texas, Toronto in wintertime…how many more undesirable locales can we come up with?
You know, someone really ought to start up a mid-February tionol in Thailand or something. That’d be alright.
Funny how these things work. I was just about to offer exactly the same to janice (re: Winnipeg) however I think that Jordan would be far far better at that. He knows where to go, and I work weekends.
Mark
Yeah, sure, like Japan doesn’t get snow up the wazoo at this time of year. What’s so undesirable? I’ll take Canada at this time of year over the heat and humidity any time. Of course, I am Canadian. 
djm
Apologies for offending your delicate sensibilities. If you love those cold Canadian winters so much, why doncha just move up to Yellowknife?
Actually, it rarely snows where I live in Japan. Why, it’s an absolutely balmy 4 degrees C outside at the moment (and not much warmer inside either–Japanese classrooms do not come equipped with heaters/air conditioners–that stuff is for decadent Westerners).
Just for the record, although I am not Canadian, I absolutely love Canada. Really. The people are friendly, there’s some really great cities with rich culture and diverse attractions, and lots and lots of really excellent beer. I’m just not hot about all those cold winters, though. There’s a reason why just about every major city in Canada is less than 100 kilos from the US border and I’m sure it’s not just so y’all can make quick shopping runs down to Costco.
I still think a mid-winter tionol in Thailand is a good idea…
Ceili in Koh Samui, anyone?