It just occurred to me that Pat and I are using totally different approaches for numbering these posts. Day two was yesterday, but I was too tired/busy/excusefull to write about it til now, so that's where we are. Just finished a rousing pancake breakfast, though, so I finally have enough energy to talk about:

• Deadhorse, Red Cedar and Sleepy Sun ran into a few sound-quality issues at their Telus World of Science set, but it didn't seem to get anyone down — especially not The Dancing Dude From Sasquatch (presumably) who made an admirable but unsuccessful attempt at getting another spontanious dance-party started. The reclining seats and star-filled atmosphere in the planetarium had me a little sleepy after the first two sets, but when Sun came out (oh God, did I really just write that?) and the singer did a maracca-shaking lap around the place, that was no longer an issue. Gorgeous harmonies and a full, bottom-heavy sound made for a near-perfect set... which I unfortunately had to duck out of early, because...

• I ended up choosing Christine Owman over Women (sorry Women!), and her set at the Arrata Opera Centre was both bizarre and wonderful. The crowd was sitting cross-legged on the floor and was very appreciative, while Owman was headbanging her way through offbeat music that you could probably call singer-songwriter, but should probably work in some qualifiers like "had a musical saw and a ukelele and surreal backing video and is probably a little bit crazy." If you weren't there, you should buy her record anyway and tell people you saw her, because it was really pretty good.