Gone to the park

The second half of Kelp's 16th anniversary Saturday shindig was held at Raw Sugar, the coffee, deserts and beer place on Somerset St. that's a hit with all the kids, and site of the quite-jammed Banditas reunion show from two months previous. This show was also quite jammed - I got my ticket in a hurry, I can tell you. First act of the night was The Michael Parks, the somewhat more rocking side of Andy Swan's musical personality.

And here's Andy rocking the Gibson SG with special guest Jenny Omnichord.



Bassist Greg Smith is also in The Weakerthans, guitarist John Higney is another guest.



Drummer Shayne Cox in a moment of repose.



The whole lot!



Andy sings! (And you can see Chris Page and Jim Bryson chit-chatting in the background, along with Jon Bartlett.)



Higney takes it all sitting down.



Bartlett rocks the tambourine.



More Greg!



More Shayne!



And that's it, until Swan makes his next foray from Breadalbane, P.E.I. Andy is offering up his albums free/pay-what-can at his website, so you have to check that out as well.

• Show reminder: pH, Adam Saikaley, OokPikk are at Mercury Lounge; The Darcys, Kalle Matson and Life In 2D; Despite All This and RedD Monkey are at The Rainbow; Wassabi Collective play Mavericks.