{"id":21282,"date":"2022-06-13T11:49:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T15:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21282"},"modified":"2022-08-30T18:34:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T22:34:33","slug":"episode-596-benares-music-on-the-verandah-june-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21282","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 596 BENARES…MUSIC ON THE VERANDAH, JUNE 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE   596    BENARES\u2026MUSIC ON THE VERANDAH, June 2022<\/p>\n

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June 13,2022<\/div>\n

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\u201cMarjorie, would you and Alan like to attend a music concert at Benares?\u201d, asked Janis Alton<\/div>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cEvery Friday evening for the whole summer\u2026different performers\u2026this Friday<\/div>\n
the Temple Band is coming\u202630 musicians\u2026big brass band.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cHow much does it cost?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cNothing\u2026they pass the hat at intermission, most people give a $10 donation.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cBig crowd?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cVaries but usually around 70 people\u2026.concert has a nice feeling of community\u2026you<\/div>\n
can sit on the grass but most people bring their own chair.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cBenares is an odd name\u2026strange\u2026is it a house or a barn or a music hall?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a grand Georgian mansion built in 1835 by a retired English officer <\/div>\n
\u2026Benares is a city in Indian where he served.  Benares looks like an American pre Civil War<\/div>\n
 spiffy home\u2026pillars and grand entrance\u2026hard to describe but<\/div>\n
sure worth seeing.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cPrivate property, I imagine?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cNope.  Owned by the City of Mississauga.  Restored.  Hidden away really.  Most <\/div>\n
people do not even know it exists.<\/div>\n

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\u201cAre open air concerts common?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cIn the summer, \u2018when the living is easy,\u201d as the song says.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhat song?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cOld Man Rover\/  \u201cpush that barge, tote that bail, get a little drunk and you land in jail.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u2018Get serous.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI am serious.  Next Friday, June 16, the Burlington Welsh Male Chorus is coming\u2026Welsh folk songs, Hymns,<\/div>\n
even opera\u2026\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cLike the Men from the Welsh coal mines in How Green Was My Valley\u2019?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cImagine so.\u201d<\/div>\n

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SO WE WENT TO BENARES \u2014 TO HEAR THE TEMPLE BAND \u2014 AND NEXT WEEK WE\u2019LL SPEND<\/div>\n
FRIDY EVENING BEING SERENADED BY THE BURLINGTON WELSH MALE CHORUS.<\/div>\n
(and every Friday for the whole summer, a different musical performance\u2026.outdooor on  the grass<\/div>\n
for  a suggested $10 donation\u2026.1507 Clarkson Road North – 905 625 4860)<\/div>\n

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\u201cAny refreshments?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cCold drinks and sweet stuff \u201c<\/div>\n
\u201cParking?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cFree parking\u2026get here early though\u20266.30, performances begin at 7 p.m.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cHey, that mansion looks wonderful.  Are there tours?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cRich history to the place\u2026no room here for that\u2026Tours in daytime\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cHow did Mississauga get the place?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cDonated\u2026.given to the City of Mississauga by the Sayers family\u2026it was<\/div>\n
once their home.   \u201c<\/div>\n
\u201cCouldn\u2019t you tell a bit about the place?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cNo time right now, I am re reading How Green Was My Valley\u2026you know<\/div>\n
my mom was Welsh\u2026I actually saw the miners coming up from the coal pits<\/div>\n
near Aberdare\u2026they were singing.  Really singing.  Sometimes history is not<\/div>\n
exaggerated.\u201d<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
June 13m 2022<\/div>\n

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EPISODE   596    BENARES\u2026MUSIC ON THE VERANDAH, June 2022 alan skeoch June 13,2022 \u201cMarjorie, would you and Alan like to attend a music concert at Benares?\u201d, asked Janis Alton \u201cWhen?\u201d \u201cEvery Friday evening for the whole summer\u2026different performers\u2026this Friday the Temple Band is coming\u202630 musicians\u2026big brass band.\u201d \u201cHow much does it cost?\u201d \u201cNothing\u2026they pass […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}