[johnfowles]

after a welcome visit to our room by an old friend Marian from my days in Montreal, including Montreal smoked meat in the Pickle Babrell on Yonge Street
it was a short stroll from our hotel Pantages into the Eaton Centre where a group of nearly 40 gathered at Mr Greenjeans,I missed a chance to chat with Mr Vistory himself Tom.Then it was soon time to reassemble in Massey Hall.
This fourth concert opened with
1. Cotton Jenny
2. Carefree Highway
3. Sea Of Tranquility
4. 14 Karat Gold
5. Minstrel Of The Dawn (Apparently done by request for MandoAnn)
(I always love anticipating Rick's bass guitar entry on this song)
6. Never Too Close
7. A Painter Passing Through
8. Let it Ride (I really noticed Rick's strirring playing of the melody line on his bass at the end of this arrangement)
9. Rainy Day People (raindrops on the fruit of the vine)
10. Shadows
11. Beautiful
12. The Watchman's Gone
13./.14 medley Ribbon Of Darkness/ Sundown
Then a second recounting of meeting an Indian chief of the Chiparee(spelling??) tribe last year who replied to Gord's question of what Gitchigumee meeans by saying "Big Water ..Lake Superior"
15. The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Intermission
The second half began with a second attempt to locate his canoeing companion the Honourable John Turner
16. Did She Mention My Name
then calls for volunteers to make loonie sounds (if you have a good one in the quiet places please
17. Ring Neck Loon
18. Restless
"written for my 8 year old daughter Ingrid who is here"
19. Fine as Fine Can Be
written when I was about to return home for the first time to my newly married wife....your mother Meredith"
20. Waiting For You
21. Make Way For The Lady
22. If You Could Read My Mind
23. Don Quixote
24.
25. Baby Step Back
26. Early Morning Rain
27. Song For a Winter's Night
Encore
28. Blackberry wine