and Emma, Alyssa and Anais(Thanks for the picture guys!)
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Happy Holidays love Splash, Boots and Harry!
and Emma, Alyssa and Anais(Thanks for the picture guys!)
Friday, December 7, 2007
LIVE from Australia!..new video footage
Helllo Everyone..
This is a very special blog introducing "Monster Party" LIVE from Australia. This was taken at the FUN4Kids Festival in beautiful Warrnambool, Australia. Enjoy......
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Winter Storms and Video Blogging!
I hope you are all keeping safe, and cozy and warm. If you managed to get more snow then rain this past weekend hope you are getting a chance to toboggan and play in it. We ended up getting freezing rain on top of the snow which made for a bit of a slippery weekend here in Southwestern Ontario. In fact it was so slippery that I managed to fall on the stage during our show at Young and Dundas Square downtown Toronto!! It was quite the move. I wish I had it on video. For all of you who made it out despite the freezing rain, we love you so much. Seriously. You are heroes.
Last weekend we did a show in Bowmanville with Madame Buskerfly... Here is our first video blog we took from backstage...wheee:
We are still filming like crazy. Our "Splash'N Boots "set" is coming along well. Rumour has it that our "Whoopie" video is going to be done later on this week which means: perfect stocking stuffers! We will keep you up-to-date...
Let us know if you would like to take part in our: 2 for $20 CD deal for Christmas presents. You have until December 14th to order. Just send us an email with details about which ones you would like, and your address: info@splashnboots.com. Don't forget to let us know who to sign them for!
"Splash'N Boots Radio" is launching on-line this coming Thursday at 7:30am and 4:30pm on Saturday. Check it out: http://whistleradio.wordpress.com/. We are looking for short stories to read on our next episodes as a part of our Storytime. Stories can be about anything at all, and should be under 1 page. Please send your creations to: radio@splashnboots.com. We can't wait to read them!
We had our first Toronto Subway debut during the past month...Thanks Amber for sending us this picture!
That's about it for now. We would love to hear from you...maybe see you one more time before the holidays. We have an outside show in Pickering this Friday. Check out our tour schedule to see if we are near you: http://www.splashnboots.com/CURRENT%20MONTH.htm
This is Splash, Boots and Harry signing off..
xo
Monday, November 19, 2007
Splash'N Dooooooor
Friday, October 26, 2007
Whooooopie! A farm experience like no other.
It was an amazing experience and we thank all the families for coming out and being a part of it. We will let you know when "Whoopie" is officially released and you can see some of these dancers in action. Until then, here are a few pictures.
Bye for now and we will be bloggin it up shortly!
Love Taes and Nick
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
ROCKKKKIN BLOG!
The next day things got interesting as Taes made her acting debut with a Horse! We shot this scene at Nick's parents farm. I'm not sure if this Horse realized acting was one of his horse skills but he was a trooper take after take... so was Taes.
Not sure who invited this other horse onto the set:)
Have a great day and we hope to see you soon!
Bye bye!!!
One more DVD Sneak Peak: Our other Rockin' Vegetables on camera! Check out our new Fun Zone for ideas about how to make your own Vegetable People....
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Falling into Season
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Sask a car toon
This is our friend Anna from St. Peter School in Tecumseh. Great to meet you Anna- thanks for the picture!
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Strathmore the Merrier
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Splash'N Island Adventures!!!!
We were greeted by a community Salmon BBQ by the sea. There were live bands playing, people dancing and corn being roasted . It was “Ukee Days’’, a three day annual festival celebrating this community and all its wonderful qualities.
The shows went really well - filled with dancers and singers of all ages. The community there was just incredible and filled with tons of town spirit; the festival grounds were always full, the stage was filled with many talented local bands and children as well as those from other parts of Canada.
During our 4 day visit we were presented with wonderful adventures that we will never forget.
But to make the day even that much more perfect we had many surprises on our boat ride home. Our captain decided to forgo the calm way home and take us out to the open ocean where the huge waves are in the hopes of seeing whales. After a half an hour of waves that sent our small boat flying up and down and side to side (sometimes I might have felt slightly nervous…!!) We both happened to be looking at the same place at the same time and saw a 30 ton Humpback Whale jump straight up in the air and land with a huge splash right beside the boat! It was the most incredible experience. We have never seen anything like it. It was like the whale was putting on a show for us because minutes later he did it again, along with a few other tail splashes. It was unbelievable!
Then we pulled up along a small island and saw Steller Sea Lions basking in the sun….they are the biggest sea lions in the world and definitely the cutest. Taes felt like snuggling up with them on the rock.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Edmon Ton of Fun
Hope everyone has been enjoying July! We have just finished performing 11 shows at the Edmonton Capital Ex and now find ourselves in sunny Vancouver. We had such a great time singing and dancing in Edmonton and seeing so many people we met at the St. Albert International Children’s Festival. Thanks for coming back and saying hello!
We are now writing to you from a little coffee shop in wonderful Vancouver. Tomorrow we are off to Vancouver Island and are very excited to see the very very west coast of Canada and perform in Ucluelet on Sunday.
****Harry the Parrot is really hoping he can see a whale off Vancouver Island since he didn’t get a chance to see one in Australia... we’ll seee!
Talk to you soon!
Love Taes and Nick…. And Harry the Parrot
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
A Stampede of a Time
On our last day of the Stampede we were treated with a concert at the Saddledome by fellow Kingstonians (a little known group) called: The Tragically Hip!
It was amazing...what a show! However things got even more exciting since we got backstage-passes after the concert. Here we are with lead guitarist Rob Baker and Bassist Gordon Sinclair.
Love Taes and Nick... and Harry the Parrot
Here's a picture sent to us with our great friend Ty at the Stampede:
Friday, July 6, 2007
The Outback to the Wild West...
After 4 Flights , 30 hours of straight travelling, and somehow two Thursdays in a row we are back in Canada safe and sound and very very sleepy!
... but what a tour
Here's what went down down-under...
From Toronto we flew over the Grand Canon stopped in L.A and continued over the large oh soo very large ocean that is the Pacific and arrived in Sydney Australia. Other then a slight miss-hap in Los Angeles involving us running full speed across the airport to catch our next flight we made it in one piece- with all of our luggage and only slightly jet-lagged.
We spent our first day in Sydney, Australia trying to see as much as we possibly could in 24 hours. We went on a ferry to Manly Island, and saw the famous Opera House. LALALALA!
The next morning we were back in the air again and off to Melbourne, Australia for the day. After a quick taste of Melbourne and all its great art , history and coffee we managed to get ourselves on a train and traveled 3 hours South to Warrnambool (our final destination!!)
here's downtown Melbourne:
Warrnambool is unlike any other place we have visited. It is right on the southern coast of Australia. Everywhere you look there is Ocean. The beaches are some of the most beautiful in the world. Our favorite beach was called "Logan's Beach", which is also a lookout for whales. Every year whales make their way to this area and have their calves. So with many other onlookers, we stood and watched. Although we did not see any directly, those with binoculars had 4 sightings while we there. Here is a picture of Logan’s Beach and lookout.
Our shows at the FUN 4 KIDS festival were fantastic. The Australian families welcomed our music and were singing and dancing along. The crowds were super. Although we must admit it was a bit intimidating performing right after and before international superstars: The Wiggles:
But we quickly made friends with Wags The Dog:
Taes asked Captain Feathersword if he knew the Last Pirate on Lake Ontario??:...
and we did the Romp Bomp A Stomp with Dorothy The Dinosaur. Nick even brought her a rose.
Then we hit the stage:
Everyone treated us so well. We were known as "The Canadians", and they all commented on OUR accents!!
While we were there our wonderful stage manager lent us her car to take for the afternoon… this may seem like a simple thing – however Australians tend to drive on the left side of the road. This was no easy challenge- especially while driving standard. (Taes was a hero).
So after we found the courage to keep on driving we made it to a place we heard about called Tower Hill, which is a actually a volcano which last erupted over 30 thousand years ago. .. it is considered dormant .. not extinct.. YIKES! When it did erupt all those years ago it made beautiful craters, lakes and mountains and is now a protected reserve. Now the rumour was that if we went, we MAY see Koala Bears, and although not likely …Kangaroos. The thought that if we might see any of these animals in the wild was worth the trip for us. Well were we in for a treat....
We headed along a nature path with our eyes scanning the trees for Koalas… and sure enough we found the sweetest little guy. Man oh man are they cute. We were able to get sooooo close to him. They are so round and fuzzy! Taes wanted to take it home with us. It was so incredible.
After that we were feeling pretty lucky with our two sightings, when all of a sudden we were face to face with TWO Kangaroos! After Taes almost passed out with excitement- we were able to take some pictures. They just looked at us and we just looked at them. This lasted for about 5 minutes then the just hopped away using those massive back legs. WOW. It’ll be a day we’ll never forget.
The next day after our shows we headed down the windy "Great Ocean Road" to see the 12 Apostles, which are a famous rock formation in Australia. They were created many many years ago by the erosion of the coastline. We made it just before sunset and were able to get some fantastic pictures.
After our last show we jumped back on the train to Melbourne, took 4 different planes, hit 5 major cities and 3 countries, and woke up this morning in the wild wild west that is Calgary during Stampede week.
Today we headed downtown and saw the famous Calgary Stampede Parade... there was even someone riding a BULL.. for fun!
After that we headed down to the Stampede grounds and performed three shows.... only 33 to go, over the next 10 days....
We love the Stampede and are very happy to be performing again at it this year.
Most of all we love all of you who come to our shows, and bring us to your cities and countries. We feel so fortunate to have a job that enables us to see so much of the world and meet so many new people.
We hope you are all having an amazing summer so far and we can see you soon.
YAHOO (that's what everybody says during Stampede!)
Love Taes and Nick
Splash'N Boots