And here it is, the final province of the tour… British Columbia.
BC was beautiful from beginning to end. Starting with lovely Golden where the weather couldn’t decide whether it wanted to rain or not but held out until our busk was finished… To sunny Victoria where my 12 year old friend Sarah surprised me by showing up and delivering over $300 she had raised for the tour by selling homemade earrings and bracelets all summer!
Nat Jay joined us in Kelowna and played the rest of the gigs with us. Added a nice new dimension to our newly founded habitual touring ways.
My family clan took over in Vancouver at The Mill when both sides of my west coast relatives showed up and my cousin Kevin played bass on a couple tunes too! Very funny to look out at 50 percent family in between the strangers.
All in all, BC was a bitter sweet wrap up to an incredible journey. We were tired and ready to go home but at the same time, very sad to stop. Once you work that hard for 2 months doing good work, there’s a certain part of you that just doesn’t want to stop!
I would like to thank every person that listened, every person that threw in money, every person that fed us or put us up, every person that gave us a hug, every person that just said thank you, all the media, the musicians, the friends, the family and EVERYONE else who made this epic fundraiser possible AND an incredible success. In the end, once we had arrived home and played our homecoming gig at Hugh’s Room… Together (including you and you and you), we raised a little over $50,000 for War Child Canada. An INCREDIBLE feat. War Child was beside themselves and very grateful. Here’s some examples of the kinds of things $50,000 can do… It can build TWO schools… It can build THREE youth centres…. It can even give THIRTY mothers (of children affected by war) a micro loan to start their own personal business to support themselves and make their children’s lives better. All of that because a couple thousand people across this great country decided to be generous. To stand up and throw whatever they could afford into a white bucket. Amazing. Thank you.
We did it.
-Liam
Wow Liam, congratulations on such a huge success! It warms my heart to hear of such good people sharing this planet, you have done a wondrous thing kudos! Just wait until all that energy comes around full circle! Exciting! Thank you for being a wonderful being, here’s sending every wish for all things good and pure
I don’t know how you did it liam, but deep inside your beautiful heart you did this amazing thing for warchild. Your so “BEAUTIFUL” inside out. CONGRATULATIONS liam to you daniel and your family for taking some time out individually of your lifes and making this happen. You have know idea the impact you have made to your fans around the world not just canada.
The best thing about being an idol of what ever is it you are singer.writer,actor/actress etc.. Is the way you present yourself and the things you do that make a difference in the world. Rather it’s small or big it always makes a difference, thats what makes us fans admire our idols and support them all the way. i admire you truly if you can do it why can we too pass along the love of helping others. Thank you so much ” My eyes are a bet watery now geez liam”. I’m proud to stand beside the rest of the fans and support you all the way, it’s amazing how music can bring so much people together in so many ways. Thank you liam….
P.S. Can’t wait for the next album to come
out. i’m already feeling the jungle fever
inside of me ah. I love your music liam…
keep it going the best to you.