'Dark Days, Bright Victory' a Powerful Experience for Elora Festival Audiences

After the success of "Canada, Fall In' last year, I was worried that doing a performance this year about the Canadians in World War II might seem like an also-ran. So I worked hard to tell the story of the war with real-life stories, images and music.  And I'm delighted to say that it worked!  Audiences were very moved and people came up afterward with stories about their parents and grandparents. I was able to use photos in the A/V presentation of my mother and father as well as the parents and grandparents of some of the singers and performers in the show. Actress Brigitte Robinson's father was an intelligence officer in Holland so we had an excerpt from his diary. My mother at 98 was able to attend and I included a story of hers about nursing during the Blitz in London.  And Marg Reynolds, the widow of Ron Reynolds, a Dieppe veteran, was also there for the first performance. (She is the gray haired woman in front of the church with me in the photo below.) And I'm delighted that we'll be doing it again in Toronto at Hart House on November 11, Remembrance Day at 7:30.  Ticket information will be on the Hart House Ticket site by October 1.