25th Anniversary of the Festival of the Sound was fantastic!

This is a picture of Guy Few, and John and Fiona York, of York 2. All are talented musicians who played the last week of the Festival of the Sound, and stayed at 40 Bay Street Bed & Breakfast.

I had the opportunity to hear them both on the Friday evening at the Opera Gala; John & Fiona are pianists who generally play not only as a duo, but often on the same piano! Guy is a very talented trumpeter, cornist, pianist and singer, who played the piano at that performance.

I'm not the only one who is a fan - in an article that appeared in the local paper, the Parry Sound North Star - Ken Stephen wrote of the York 2 at their Thursday afternoon performance: "Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring fared better in this treatment, as the original is itself very sharp-edged and percussive. By contrast, Holst’s Planets sounded best in its lighter, gentler moments, and most like itself in the final luminous pages of Neptune, the Mystic". Mr. Stephen wrote of Guy's performance during the closing work 'Handel's Messiah': "Guy Few gave a spectacular reading of the trumpet solo in The Trumpet Shall Sound."

It's hard to believe that the Festival of the Sound manages every year to top the year before, but they do! Let's hope that next year is as much fun...