BEP and PCD Rock PEI

The first concert I ever saw was Alan Jackson at the Moncton Coliseum, years ago. Since then I have been to my fair share, such as: Terri Clark, Simple Plan, Great Big Sea, Hedley, INXS, even Britney Spears ( I really didn't go for the music) and the list goes on.

The day was the 3rd of September, I got up at 9am, showered and got dressed. My ride picked me up at 10am and we were on our way to Charlottetown, PEI for the concert "Blast At The Beach". After 2 hours of driving and a lot of potato fields later we arrive in Charlottetown.

By now we are all hungry, so Wendys it is. After all is eaten we head down to the concert site.

There were thousands of people at the gates, and I thought this was gonna take hours, but it didn't take relatively that long to get in the gate. First thing we did was browse around and then we found our spot to sit.

3pm, Stabilo came on stage. Their set wasn't great, the only thing I even listened to was "Everybody and Flawed Design".
4:15pm, Mobile stepped out and rocked the crowd. I, myself only knew their single "Outta My Head".
5:30pm, it was time for The Philosopher Kings. I had no expectations, but I was blown away. Truely a great Canadian band. They performed "Hurts To Love you" and "Cry". The lead singer ever brought a girl from the stage and serenaded her, to his rendition of a classic Marvin Gaye tune.
7:30pm, the stage is not set with it metal stairs and poles. The fog machines start pumping out the white fog and all 7 of the Pussycat Dolls graced the stage, led by the lead singer Nicole. NowI have a couple things to say about the PCD. A lot of people claim they are just eye candy and they are right. Mostly. But can they ever dance. They performed songs such as "Buttons", "Beep" and my favorite "Don't Cha".
9:15pm, by now I have made my way to pretty much the front of the crowd. Armed with 2 cameras I'm ready for The Black Eyed Peas. Will.I.Am, Taboo, Apl De Ap, and Fergie came to the stage with the blue lights lit. The crowd was crazy. 17,000 people in attendance for these 4 individuals. The kicked it off with classic BEP tunes such as "Shut Up, Shut Up", "Where Is The Love?", and "Don't Phunk With My Heart". Then they moved on to individual performances, and thats where Fergie kicked it with "London Bridges". After the individual sets are done they perform together to finish off an exciting night, with "My Humps, and "Let's Get Retarded".

Overall, the BEP concert was an amazing night. I met some great new people, Jacqueline (Cape Breton,NB) and Kristy (Fredericton, NB) who saw what I could do with a camera and trusted me with theirs.

The photo was taken with Jacquelines' 4.8 mega-pixel digital camera. After getting the photo emailed to me I touched it up taking out the 60% of the digital noise, and then changing the picture to B&W.

Vandalism Should Not Be Tolerated.

For many years, ghost stories and local folklore have caught my attention. Whether it be, stories of Rebecca's Grave, the Dungarven Whooper, or even the statue of Jenny Steeves in Grey's Island Cemetary.

Now I know most people don't believe in ghost and strange phenomena, but a story usually starts from something true, and over the years it gets exagerated immensely.

The photo above is of the statue in Grey's Island Cemetary, located in Hillsborough, NB. just outside Riverview & Moncton.

The story of Jenny Steeves, from what I have studied is just a sad story. It's not a murder story or anything gruesome like that. It's about a young girl, Jenny Steeves who I believe was aged 12-13, from a well-to-do family. She passed away from Diptheria in 1912. Her parents had a statue of her made purely of marble. And so the story should end there. But it doesn't.

Here are the 3 stories I have heard about Jenny Steeves and her infamous statue:
1) At night her spirit walks along the path by her grave and her brothers unmarked grave and picks flowers. She picks the flowers on her brothers grave so people can tell where he is. (notice the bag she carries in the photo).
2) It is believed she once had ruby eyes, and a gold ring on her finger (her hand once pointed outwards, as if saying "look there"). Now people believe she haunts the statue, in hopes of finding what was once hers.
And this last story I have tested and studied, and I'm not saying its true, but it was definately weird.
3) Folklore has it that if you walk around the statue backwards 3 times while staring at her eyes, the eyes will follow you, and then you will disappear. I believe the ruby eyes, and the ring, cause i have seen the statue years ago when the head and hand was there. When the head was there there were spots where something should have been in the eyes, and the hand was there but the finger was missing. I have tried this along with 2 of my friends years back and I video taped it. What I found disturbing was that I saw no such activity when walking backwards. When we checked the tape over, her eyes sure as hell did follow us. However, I believe its just the way the sun hit the shadows of Jennys eyes. And as for the disappearing ... I'm still here.

The picture was shot during mid-day, directed straight at the object. The camera was set on all automatic settings. What makes me sick is that for some sick reason vandals broke her arm off and stole her head.

If you have any information on the whereabouts of Jennys head, please contact the town of Hillsborough.

Vandalism should not be tolerated.