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- Couple’s garage a homey little concert venue ( 3-13-2009)
Fearing an attack on the United States by a troupe of Canadian folk singers, Homeland Security won’t allow The Buccaneers to cross the border to perform at a house concert in Las Vegas this weekend.
“They have to get a work permit to come down here,” says Richard Stewart, who frequently plays host to concerts in his garage on the north side of town.
“We’ve never had a problem in the past, the process has always gone smooth. But Homeland Security has gotten very slow in issuing the permits lately and the musicians didn’t get them in time – they’ve expected them for the past few weeks.”
No work permit, no gig.
“We have to cancel the show,” Stewart says.
The show was to have been Saturday at Garage-Ma-Hal – the 1,800 square foot metal building behind Stewart’s home that has been converted from a garage into a showroom.
Six or seven concerts a year are held at the unusual venue. Past performers include actor/folk singer Ronnie Cox, Mark Rodney, Traffic Jam, Dave Potts, Hot Club of Las Vegas and Michael Soli, who runs the acoustic guitar nights at House of Blues at Mandalay Bay.
Fans donate money for the concerts and the money goes to the performers, many of whom follow a home concert circuit across the country.
The Buccaneers have been around since 1997, and have never been accused of terrorist activity – but they have been described as playing “aggressive Canadian folk music.”
Perhaps Homeland felt it was a bit too aggressive. Maybe the feds thought the three musicians were hiding instruments of mass destruction on their tour bus.
Stewart says he thought all along The Buccaneers would get the necessary work permits so didn’t line up a substitute.
The next scheduled concert will be May 2, featuring folk/Americana/acoustic musicians Bev Barnett and Greg Newlon.
“I may try and book something before then,” Stewart says. “Maybe a local act.”
That's ok by me because at the Canadian borders you'll find they are not to nice to Americans either. Tit-for-tat.
Homeland Security cannot find terrorists.
Homeland Security are the terrorists.
Sheila: Times have changed
Our kids are getting worse
They won't obey their parents
They just want to fart and curse!
Sharon: Should we blame the government?
Liane: Or blame society?
Dads: Or should we blame the images on TV?
Sheila: No, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
Sheila: With all their beady little eyes
And flapping heads so full of lies
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Sheila: We need to form a full assault
Everyone: It's Canada's fault!
Sharon: Don't blame me
For my son Stan
He saw the damn cartoon
And now he's off to join the Klan!
Liane: And my boy Eric once
Had my picture on his shelf
But now when I see him he tells me to f**k myself!
Sheila: Well, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
Sheila: It seems that everything's gone wrong
Since Canada came along
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Copy Guy: They're not even a real country anyway
Ms. McCormick: My son could've been a doctor or a lawyer rich and true,
Instead he burned up like a piggy on the barbecue
Everyone: Should we blame the matches?
Should we blame the fire?
Or the doctors who allowed him to expire?
Sheila: heck no!
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Sheila: With all their hockey hullabaloo
Liane: And that bitch Anne Murray too
Everyone: Blame Canada
Shame on Canada
For...
The smut we must stop
The trash we must bash
The Laughter and fun
Must all be undone
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before somebody thinks of blaming uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus!!!!
All the while Gomez and Petro suck up American's jobs.
We can't get 3 long hair Canadian musicians to Las Vegas but we can be inundated by pickup-truck loads of Mexican immigrants wearing Mariachi uniforms.
It's swell that homeland security's protecting the ears of our youth from blasphemous groups like Marilyn Manson & The Buccaneers. They're one of the greatest things aboot our neighbors to the north. SOCIABLE!!!
The problem is, they know Sean is going to win huge dollars, and invest the money in local Celtic bands in Calgary, Canada!!!!