Edson
Kinsmen Soft Ball Tournament – Edson,
AB August 4th 2007
Just to give you a little
back story on what this event is all about here is what
their website has to say about it: “The Edson Kin Slo-Pitch Tournament is the largest
of it's kind on the planet, played at the worlds largest
ball park "Vision Park" with 24 regulation sized
diamonds in one park! This Tournament plays host to 256
Regular Division Teams and a 16 Team "Masters" Division,
one HUGE beer gardens and thousands of players, fans and
spectators. Can you say PARTY!?”
So this was the event that
we got invited to play, and man we’re we stoked. It is boasted as having one
of the largest permanent beer garden structures known to
exist anywhere. This event even got listed as Maxim Magazines
#2 Event to Get Laid At. It was an insane party, at least
5000 people were there rocking out like no tomorrow… was
one hell of a memorable experience.
It lasted all weekend
though we only played on Saturday night. Amber Haydey played
on Friday and Brad Johner played on Sunday. As for our
part of the event itself, we arrived in the afternoon
on Saturday for sound check. After a couple of hours
of getting all the sound issues hammered out we had finished
and we’re ready to get some food before
we had to take the stage.
Around 10:00 PM we hit
the stage to thousands upon thousands of people ready
to rock. The crowd was amazing. It was a sea of people
in front of us having the time of their life. All I can
say is “AWESOME!” We decided
to close our first set with a cover “Killing in the
Name of” which I sang, and got some of the crowd
involved in too. Was definitely the high point for me that
night.
As the night went on more
and more people starting occupying the beer gardens,
and we still had a second set to play. It was even rowdier
and crazier during our second set. Playing for that amount
of people on stage is just amazing. There is no real
way to describe what it’s like,
you just have to be there and experience it.
When all was said and done, it was a good night, lots
of rock and lots of beer. And hey, even the ‘rents
came out and took part in the experience. I could probably
go on and on about the whole thing, but all in all, it
rocked and I can’t wait to do it again.
Special Thanks to Lee Freezen of Freezen Hot Music, the
Kinsmen Slo-Pitch Tournament and everyone who came out.
:)
Keep Smiling,
Shane Lamotte
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