Ships and Dip 4 - Songwriters in the Round

I love songwriter events. They're a great opportunity to learn more about the artist and the music than you can just seeing them perform. The music has more meaning and is more enjoyable when I know what inspired it or where it was written or just more about the craft of writing it.

Ed Robinson of Barenaked Ladies hosted the Songwriters event on the cruise. He picked Boothby Graffoe, Jason Plumb, Alan Doyle (of Great Big Sea) and Jenn Grant to appear with him.


Boothby, Jason and Ed (notice lonely mic)

Alan was late to the show because Great Big Sea had a Q&A right before it that ran late. As his punishment, he had to follow Boothby in performing. He begged, "Could you just sound like shit for me?" He didn't luck out. Boothby was brilliant. Alan wasn't bad either, truth be told.

Boothby did the Budgie song and he added in a line that went something like this: "did a wine tasting today and the guy fucking hated me". It got a big laugh. He had just come from hosting a wine tasting in the pub. Apparently, the guy giving it thought he was going to give a serious lesson to the participants. Little did he know that they were just there to drink booze and be entertained by Boothby. From all reports, the ship dude ended up very cranky.


Jenn Grant

This was the only event where I got to see and hear Jason Plumb and Jenn Grant. It was just too darn busy on that ship! They had some lovely songs.

Since it was only an hour long, each artist only did two songs. I could have sat there all afternoon and been happy.

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