This one is all about Stomping. And music. Oh, and curling, of course. And about links... lots and lots of links.
Blogreaders know we love music, and it’s connection to curling. Whether we happen to really love the artist, or, er, despise a particular song, or just recognize a curling connection.
So we simply cannot pass up the opportunity to throw a picture of Canadian music legend Stompin’ Tom Connors up here.
So what’s the connection?
Well, a new play focussing on this legendary character just may vault a Middaugh to Hollywood stardom. No, we;re not talking about Sherry or Wayne... we’re talking about their young daughter, Kelly.
As this story tells, Kelly starts her non-school acting career today (and running through June 21) playing the Stompin’ Tom’s sister in a local production.
Speaking of stomping, we ran a great photo of Arnold Asham in our April edition of The Curling News – did you catch it? Arnold was stomping it up at the Brier in Winnipeg, and our intrepid Jill Officer was on site to get the photos... and now there’s a few videos online, located here and also via a ton of YouTube links here, of his Stompers doing their thing at various events, including the men’s worlds in Grand Forks a few weeks later.
OK, still think that this curling-music thing is a little weak? How about this: Peter Loewen is just loving the curling song by The Weakerthans, and lo and behold, that song was dedicated to a Scottish fan – and music journo – at a Weakerthans’ gig in Birmingham, England the other night.
Still very weak?
OK, then... now we’ll let your fingers do all the talking ...
• Team Kelly Scott has been inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame ...
• Team Michelle Englot is moving on with a new third; former vice-skip Darlene Kidd is hanging them up, and will be marrying Scott Bailey of Team Wayne Middaugh in July ...
• The Sun says Manitoba curling needs some help, pronto, while the Freep says good luck with that ...
• 14-year Saskatchewan Curling Association boss Stan Martin has died, at age 78 ...
• Olympic champion fifth Mike Adam has gone home to Lab City ...
• Kirkland Lake CC in northern Ontario needs new brine pipes, and they’ve raised two-thirds ($50,000) of the funds needed so far ... meanwhile, Alberta’s Fort Saskatchewan club wants a 50K loan, and Saskatoon’s now-defunct Hub City CC has reopened... as... this ...
• Congrats to Moncton’s Lorne Mitton, a former CCA president and overall curling dynamo, on his recent retirement from the mayor’s office ...
• Who is all for curling in Fenland, England? Well, this fellow is, and we are, too ...
• What, more curling club arson mayhem? This time in Chilliwack, B.C., which hosted the 2006 Continental Cup of Curling ...
• Brampton’s Dave Stewart has made it into his town’s Sports Hall of Fame, and as first reported a month or so ago, northern Ontario curling coach Tom Coulterman gets inducted into his hometown sports hall tonight ...
• They’re still curling in Bratislava, Slovakia ...
• And finally, ESPN sports legend Chris Berman was asked about curling.
Whadaya know, Boomer?
“Curling – not a lot. It’s a big thing, it goes slow, you sweep it with a broom... It’s interesting, it’s good humour – or, as you say up here, hu-more. But I’ll be the first to admit – don’t ask me to dissect the world curling championships.”
How come it’s so popular up here and not in the States?
“Don’t know the rules. Doesn’t mean it couldn’t – especially late at night with the bar crowd.”
Blogreaders know we love music, and it’s connection to curling. Whether we happen to really love the artist, or, er, despise a particular song, or just recognize a curling connection.
So we simply cannot pass up the opportunity to throw a picture of Canadian music legend Stompin’ Tom Connors up here.
So what’s the connection?
Well, a new play focussing on this legendary character just may vault a Middaugh to Hollywood stardom. No, we;re not talking about Sherry or Wayne... we’re talking about their young daughter, Kelly.
As this story tells, Kelly starts her non-school acting career today (and running through June 21) playing the Stompin’ Tom’s sister in a local production.
Speaking of stomping, we ran a great photo of Arnold Asham in our April edition of The Curling News – did you catch it? Arnold was stomping it up at the Brier in Winnipeg, and our intrepid Jill Officer was on site to get the photos... and now there’s a few videos online, located here and also via a ton of YouTube links here, of his Stompers doing their thing at various events, including the men’s worlds in Grand Forks a few weeks later.
OK, still think that this curling-music thing is a little weak? How about this: Peter Loewen is just loving the curling song by The Weakerthans, and lo and behold, that song was dedicated to a Scottish fan – and music journo – at a Weakerthans’ gig in Birmingham, England the other night.
Still very weak?
OK, then... now we’ll let your fingers do all the talking ...
• Team Kelly Scott has been inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame ...
• Team Michelle Englot is moving on with a new third; former vice-skip Darlene Kidd is hanging them up, and will be marrying Scott Bailey of Team Wayne Middaugh in July ...
• The Sun says Manitoba curling needs some help, pronto, while the Freep says good luck with that ...
• 14-year Saskatchewan Curling Association boss Stan Martin has died, at age 78 ...
• Olympic champion fifth Mike Adam has gone home to Lab City ...
• Kirkland Lake CC in northern Ontario needs new brine pipes, and they’ve raised two-thirds ($50,000) of the funds needed so far ... meanwhile, Alberta’s Fort Saskatchewan club wants a 50K loan, and Saskatoon’s now-defunct Hub City CC has reopened... as... this ...
• Congrats to Moncton’s Lorne Mitton, a former CCA president and overall curling dynamo, on his recent retirement from the mayor’s office ...
• Who is all for curling in Fenland, England? Well, this fellow is, and we are, too ...
• What, more curling club arson mayhem? This time in Chilliwack, B.C., which hosted the 2006 Continental Cup of Curling ...
• Brampton’s Dave Stewart has made it into his town’s Sports Hall of Fame, and as first reported a month or so ago, northern Ontario curling coach Tom Coulterman gets inducted into his hometown sports hall tonight ...
• They’re still curling in Bratislava, Slovakia ...
• And finally, ESPN sports legend Chris Berman was asked about curling.
Whadaya know, Boomer?
“Curling – not a lot. It’s a big thing, it goes slow, you sweep it with a broom... It’s interesting, it’s good humour – or, as you say up here, hu-more. But I’ll be the first to admit – don’t ask me to dissect the world curling championships.”
How come it’s so popular up here and not in the States?
“Don’t know the rules. Doesn’t mean it couldn’t – especially late at night with the bar crowd.”
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