Carli The Quilter

If you live in a small town then you'll understand the folksy festival that Smithers celebrates every year. We're a conservative, religious and active community. We have all sorts of usual services for visitors and you can find many churches like this one if you attend Sunday services or otherwise, its in Smithers. We love our Mid Summer Music Festival. Its mostly a family event, with loads of great music and lots of venues to just get your music out there. Later on in this post you'll meet a young man who sings the blues. Above, one of our local celebrities Jenny Lester usually pencils in this early July festival. You'll find plenty of young folk who recycle and its awesome to see this blanket is sweaters she harvested and remade into this blanket. Let me present one of our young people who sings his heart out. I don't remember his name, this clip is from several years and his name escapes me. Its a good listen though. ...

Please help me get the word out that she's performing on Friday March 6th on CBC's "Q" at 10 am nationwide. Our neighbors from back home now live in Victoria who have a daughter that is an hot, new Canadian singer-songwriter who performs all her own new songs.  She and her partner are the new group  "Del Bel"   and when I listened the first time at her parents home, I was struck with awe! This little girl was raised on a small farm in Northern BC and is one hot commodity that few know about and her she is performing this new single, "Stirring Bones" and her Mother who loves singing in chiors and her father is a public school music teacher. Both are lovely warm people and their daughter in a photo on their fridge looks like Amy Winehouse.  This is what the Toronto Star says of her work " Ben Rayner of the Toronto star reviewed Oneiric as  "one of the best Canadian albums of the year.."  which led the band to be ranked in the T...