CHRIS BROOKES' BROKEN RECORD JIG

Dave Penny composed this tune last winter. At a session on the day that the snowfall record was broken, Chris Brookes suggested to Dave that he write a tune to mark the broken record. Dave did so, and named it for Chris, and a lovely tune it is! If you're a 4-stop melodion player, you might notice that it goes up to the highest note on the instrument, just like the snowfall on the metre stick last year!

The first time Dave played it, he quipped that he'd tried to write a repetitive tune that would sound like a broken record, but that didn't make for a good tune.

THE SINUS INFECTION JIG/DR. REDMOND TO THE RESCUE
by Jean Hewson

At the end of March, I came down with a terrible cold, which turned into a vicious sinus infection a few days later. That Friday I phoned my doctor's office to make an appointment, but I couldn't get one before the following Tuesday. I was miserable that weekend. The pain in my sinuses kept me up two nights in a row, and all I could do was whine and play guitar! I wrote The Sinus Infection Jig on Sunday; its pulsating rhythm was inspired by the throbbing of my sinuses!

On Monday, I couldn't take it anymore: I hadn't slept in two days, and I was starting to hallucinate. I decided to go to my doctor a day early and beg her to see me. We'd had a storm the previous night and, unbeknowst to me, everything was closed. I dug out the car and drove to the doctor's office, but it was locked up tight!! I thought "OK. I'll go to the emergency department at the hospital, " but there was a picket line at the hospital as it was the first full day of the big NAPE strike! I truly wasn't in the mood to cross a picket line, so I drove to ENT Consultants on Elizabeth Ave. I didn't have an appointment or a referral. The receptionist told me that one of the doctors had made it into work that morning, and that he would see me. She brought me into Dr. Redmond's office, and I can truthfully say I was never as happy to see anyone as I was to see him! He gave me some nose spray, and a prescription for antibiotics.

Three days later, I was feeling much better, and I wrote Dr. Redmond to the Rescue in honour of the man who, in spite of storms and strikes, managed to get to work to see his patients!