After dinner we took our coffees upstairs and scored prime seats near the front (since we were the only people in the room at the time we could choose the best seats in the house). Mennonite Bluesman Bush Wiebe was already on stage and started playing some excellent blues instrumentals. This guy plays a mean slide… loved it. Throughout the night he would go on to play a handful of excellent blues with hilarious Mennonite centric lyrics.
The story of the Mennonite preachers with their boots and long dark coats brought back childhood memories of my grandfather who was one of them. One of my early childhood memories is sitting in the balcony of the Chortitzer Mennonite Church in Steinbach, looking down on the men on the left side of the isle, women on the right, with my grandfather and six or seven other stern looking men in long dark coats up front.
Loved every bit of it and would love to see a full show by Bush.
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