Shooglenifty on SSI Aug 22, 2001

Can you believe it? Its been 7 years since Shooglenifty performed on Salt spring island to a blow out audience to fundraise thousands of dollars for the Salt Spring Island Conservancy. A very short number of years after that great event, the CBC radio host David Grierson who MC'd the event, died and will always be fondly remembered by Saltspringers for his help and support during that grueling campaign.

So much has happened since then. It was August 22, 2001, less than a month before the 9/11 event. We were all hoping for a better way to start the millenion. I borrowed David Shebib's camera then to film the Shooglenifty event over the course of several hours. It was one of those events you'll never forget.

The Scottish supergroup Shooglenifty performed its blend of traditional Gaelic and funkadelic to a sold-out crowd at the Farmer's Institute to raise $7,719.69 for the Mt. Maxwell lake watershed. Tom Gossett, Salt Spring Island Water Preservation (SSIWPS) Society Director said," We saw a big cross-section of the community and a lot of youth represented at the event. It was a tremendous success." They are an amazing band that were on their B.C. tour from Edinburgh and came to play the benefit concert for the watershed on Salt Spring Ilsand.

When David Grierson brought Karen Hudson up on the stage to welcome everyone, and she saw the sea of cheering faces from Calgary, Vancouver, Galiano, Victoria and even Scotland, Karen knew what it was to be part of a wonderful community working to preserve it's natural heritage. Thank you everyone.

Now, those memories will live on in You Tube. The event was transfered from an ancient VHS tape, unearthed from a dust ladenned shelf deep in a dark cellar and was digitized and compressed to the "Saltspring Time-Machine" playlist on the Saltspringpictures Channel: http://ca.youtube.com/saltspringpictures

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Grassroots
• Outreach

[mituser]

Wow! This is so cool!

I remember seeing the videographer and wondering where the footage would end up!

This is great! That event was a wild party! We do need a return by Shooglenifty!