I am sitting in my hotel room in Battleford, getting myself mentally braced for the events of this week. We have four shows total -- one in Battleford tomorrow night, two in Toronto on August 25 and 26, and a final show on Sunday in Saskatoon. That will close off the first, very long chapter of our Diamond Girls journey.
And what a journey it has been. We did better than we ever dreamed in Edmonton. Three sellouts out of six and another that was damn close. We had an overwhelmingly positive response. One patron told me Diamond Girls was her second favourite show out of all the ones she has seen. To be named in the same breath as Nashville Hurricane, a juggernaut of a show at the Big Fringes, was a huge honour. Since July 5th (when we started at St. Mary's Anglican in Regina) we have made new friends, learned a lot (and learned at the same time that we have a lot left to learn -- if that makes any sense), and have been humbled by the good wishes of our friends and family all over the country. Diamond Girls is a feel-good show, and it feels damn good to be doing it. It also feels damn good to think about sleeping in my own bed in just one week. Later.
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