TIMA ~ The Big Event ~ Burgers, Ballads, and Beer

Here's the latest scoop on the BIG EVENT. Mark it on your calendar:

 

Burgers, Ballads and Beer (a.k.a. An evening of nautical tunes and tales)

 

Thetis Island Marina ~ 7:30PM ~ Friday, May 29

  

Join the TIMA crew and sundry salty types for a hilarious soirée of nautical music and unshipshape anecdotes about life, laughter and folly on the briny deep, shared by the sly, the shy, the outgoing and the outrageous.

Here are the names of a few folks who’ve hinted, threatened, agreed heartily or are currently being coerced (as in keel-hauled) to play music and/or give you a 5-minute account of some humorous or humiliating adventure on high seas, low tides or impertinent reefs: Lynda Poirier, Darron Stepple, Simone Luckham, Dave Pethick, Petra Accipiter, Maureen Loiselle, Mike Ferguson, Gerhard Wanney, Tom Taylor, Bob Pickell, Gerry Smith, Hortenza Nawatzki, Wayne Loiselle, Dale Burkholder, Michel Filion, Gary Geddes, Freya Fullner, and that’s just for starters.

We’re also hoping to have Peter Luckham as MC and are looking for someone to lead us in singing some knotty, or naughty, nautical tunes.

If I’ve missed your name or if you have a 5-minute anecdote or watery melody and would love to be included, let me know by phone or email. No audition required. Or just show up at the soirée and volunteer to be part of our floating opera.

Also, if you know a Thetis Island stowaway with a tale that must be told, bully him or her to share that story.

And let me know and I’ll help arrange to have this secret sharer Shanghaied. 

 

Lots of folks will be arriving early for dinner. If you can’t make it for dinner, come up the gangplank in time to find a seat for the 7:30 launch. If the weather’s good, we may have our event outdoors in the covered area.

 

Gary Geddes