If we hadn’t gotten home so late, I would have written all of this for you yesterday, that is how exciting last night was.
After a frustrating workday, I came home and tarted myself up for the FHE hoping to get a bit of fun in before going to our Peter Katz concert.
We went to a member of the Bishopric’s house who excitedly had a Karaoke machine. One of the Chinese restaurants in town use to have a Karaoke night, and Jenny and I would wrangle up all of our friends to sing the night away. I wished Jenny was there, but my FHE family entertained me with all kinds of music, from country to rap. We spent most of the night laughing more than singing. I even entertained the group by channeling my inner Britney Spears and singing Baby One More Time, and then quietly snuck out to hit up Peter Katz.
Okay. Seriously. I have mentioned Peter Katz a couple of times and you seriously don’t know who he is? Go, right now and check out his website. Right here. I will wait.
Really. Don’t read anymore until you have listened this, or this.
Fantastic, isn’t he? To be honest, he is even better live.
Okay, so the story of Peter Katz is as follows. Eric and his friend Garth had a radio show at the university before they went on their missions. A certain percentage of their show had to be new music, and a certain portion had to be Canadian music. So when they found a new Canadian artist, Peter Katz, they realized they could kill two birds with one stone.
It turns out that Peter Katz is amazing, and soon his whole album got tons of play on the goofy radio show. Somehow Peter found out that his album was being played here in town, and on his next cross country tour, arranged a stop in Lethbridge. Eric and Garth went to his concert, loved him even more live, and started promoting him to all of their friends. By the time he came back in April, me and my friends had joined the Peter Katz band wagon.
We knew Peter Katz would be sad to come to town and not meet up with his favourite radio guys, so we once again rounded up the troops and headed to see Peter Katz.
We sat at the front table, sang along with all of his songs and really enjoyed the concert. After the set, we went to thank Peter for a great concert, and say hi from Eric and Garth. And that is when we became Peter Katz new best friend complete with pictures, autographs and hugs. Peter, so excited to be surrounded by real fans, played another whole set of requested songs. It was close to midnight by the time we went to wish Peter good luck with the rest of his tour and safe drive home to Toronto.
I felt bad that we all had to work today because seriously I know all of us could have talked to Peter all night. He is so personable, gracious and his love of music is more than apparent. If you haven’t listened to him yet, what are you waiting for?
Finding it hard to concentrate on any amount of real work. Waiting to talk to you again. Wishing Peter Katz all the best.
As Always,
2 comments:
That's really cool that you got to spend time some time with him and that he played a whole extra set. I love it when artists are sort of new and struggling because they're so appreciative of their fans.
I'll have to check him out.
It sounds like an amazing night with Peter! I'm glad. I was concerned when you said the Kareoke thing and I realized "oh no" because of the show offs in your group. It's probably best you left early and enjoy time with Peter instead.
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