Stronger Together Benefit Concert Review (2020)

Stronger Together Benefit Concert Review (2020)

We are STRONGER TOGETHER. In this difficult time when people around the world are staying home in an effort to stay healthy, people in the entertainment industry are adapting and finding new and different ways for us to come together.

Last night, April 26, 2020, Canadian artists performed Bill Withers' iconic song Lean On Me as the closing number on the virtual Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble: Canadian Artists, Athletes and Activists Salute Front Line Workers Benefit Concert. It was a beautiful ending to a very well produced show.

LEAN ON ME VIDEO


I hope you saw the whole concert but if you did not, here is the closing musical number, a montage of many, many Canadian artists.




After the performance, I was asked by my sister-in-law if I knew all of the artists. I did not. She then asked if my husband, who often knows who is who, did and I said that he also did not. Canada has so much talent! We recognized many artists but the list of participants was long and we met a few new faces as well.

PERFORMERS


In no particular order, some of the musical performers included Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Alessia Cara, Michael Bublé, Bryan Adams, Jann Arden, Sarah McLachlan, Geddy Lee of Rush, Buffy Sainte-Marie, the Barenaked Ladies, the Arkells, Sofia Reyes, Justin Bieber, William Prince, Drake, Avril Lavigne, Anne Murray, Tom Cochrane, Randy Bachman, Measha Brueggergosman, Burton Cummings, The Tenors and the Voices Rock Medicine female physicians choir.

Note that not all of these singers actually sang. I was disappointed that Celine Dion did not have her own song on the show and my older friends and family wish that Anne Murray had sang a song. However, The Globe and Mail voted for Nova Scotian Anne Murray as the Best Moment when she addressed the pandemic and the mass shooting in her home province and introduced the virtual choir of female physicians (Voices Rock Medicine) who sang the anthem Rise Again.

The list of non-musical performers included actors like Eric McCormack, Jason Priestly, Hamza Haq and Mike Myers, author Margaret Atwood, comedian Howie Mandel, astronaut Chris Hadfield, scientist David Suzuki, Cirque du Soleil's Atherton family, HGTV's Scott McGillivray  and Drew Scott and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Canadian lifestyle magazine Zoomer  call the concert possibly "the greatest one-night performance of Canadian musical talent in history." I agree. Definitely one of the best Canadian concerts ever and obviously this show comes HIGHLY RECOMMENDED by me. The goal of the concert was two fold. First, to thank our amazing front line workers and I believe that they did a fine job in that regard and second, to raise money in support of Canadian Food Banks. I hope the concert proves to have been just as successful in that regard.

Take care and
stay safe everyone.
We will meet again!
Brenda



Stronger Together Canadian Benefit Concert

Thank You to Front Line Workers

Stronger Together Tous Ensemble Concert

Stronger Together Tous Ensemble Concert


Vintage Springbok Country Road Jigsaw Puzzle

Vintage Springbok Country Road Jigsaw Puzzle

PUZZLE FOR NATIONAL ARBOR DAY


I went looking for a jigsaw puzzle to celebrate National Arbor Day, which is celebrated on the last Friday in April. The day was created to encourage us to celebrate and to plant trees. They are so important to the earth protecting the topsoil from being eroded away, putting oxygen into the air that we breath and providing homes for wildlife.

TECHNICAL DETAILS


This puzzle is a vintage 1975 Springbok puzzle called Country Road featuring, as it does, a lovely romantic wooded road in the countryside. When finished the puzzle will be square and measure 20 1/4 inches by 20 1/4 inches. It is is Springbok's puzzle number PZL2061.

Springbok Country Road Jigsaw Puzzle

OLD IRISH EXPRESSION


The text on the back is from a beautiful Old Irish proverb that incidentally does not appear on the picture on the puzzle. It reads: 

May the road rise up to meet you. 
May the wind be always at your back. 
May the sun shine warm upon your face; 
the rains fall soft upon your fields 
and until we meet again, 
may God hold you 
in the palm of His hand.

WHERE TO BUY THIS PUZZLE


Because it is a vintage puzzle, you will have to search eBay to find it. You can do so by clicking right here. I recommend buying a new puzzle, if possible. If you have to buy a used puzzle because that is all that is available or because that is all that you can afford and if it matters to you, make sure that you find out if the seller guarantees the puzzle to be complete. Counting the pieces is not a good way to know if a puzzle is complete since the number of puzzle pieces as given on the outside of the puzzle box does not necessarily represent the exact number of pieces within the box. Working a puzzle is the only way to know it is complete. Of course, you may be content to work a puzzle that is missing a piece or two and, as long as you know that is a possibility, that is okay, too. 

You never know what
puzzles I have in store for you!
Brenda

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