The show was really quite fantastic albeit a little chilly onstage, definately not as sultry and humid as the past few days here in Toronto. The reaction from the Canadian crowd was really quite wonderful and got even better as the night went on and darkness fell. Quite a few really amazing performances including Stuart Duncan's stupendous fiddle solo in Red Staggerwing. Looking forward to hearing the recording of this one. There was a mobile present, apart from our AMD recording equipment, with a view to broadcasting the show in Canada at some unspecified later date. Speedway at Nazareth was in my mind one of the best of all time and as we came off before the encores, the band was buzzing. Back on for if this is goodbye and the So Far away/shangri La finishers and then into why worry. Emmy started her 'folkmusic101' intro and Mark asked her to hang on a moment as his in-ears failed. A couple of minutes passed and Emmylou invited Mark to sing the final duet on one mic. It was a wonderfully intimate moment.

After show we did the usual runner to the Gulfstream G4 for a flight across the border to New York. Onboard Krissy, the stewardess did extremely well to accommodate us and Peter was fabulous in his debut role as assistant flight attendant dishing out the sushi in a fast and efficient manner.
The original plan was to fly into Teeterborough and clear customs/immigration there, and this should have been no problem at all except that someone got their timings wrong and the immigration staff went home at midnight - exactly our scheduled landing time. We were put in a hold for one hour and diverted to Newark whereupon the Brits amongst us had to be driven miles, still in our stage clothes to the main terminal for Immigration where we waited for a particularly miserable, humourless officer to process us in absolutely the most unwelcoming fashion. After fingerprints and mug-shots it was then back in the breadvan across the other side of the airport to the plane to collect the bags sitting on the tarmac and onward to the cars finally arriving at the hotel a little over two hours after the scheduled time. All this seems quite tame when we hear that the crew were held for FIVE hours at the border. As always though, it's great to be back in the U.S. of A. Now for a day off in New York, yippee.
Come on England!