ON ASSIGNMENT FOR THE HISTORY OF MY KIDS' BUSINESS

For the past two weeks I've been immersed in family history. Business history in part. Well, I guess mostly business. You see, I've been promising Andrew and Robert that I'd write-up their biographies for a new blog-site, promoting their respective Gravenhurst businesses…..Andrew Currie's Music and Collectables, and Robert Currie's Music, both situated in the former Muskoka Theatre building, on Muskoka Road, opposite the Opera House.

Now over the five year hump, for small business, they wanted to have a proper biography done, in the event, in ten year's time, they write a book about their experiences. That's presumptuous isn't it? Well, they've found a book they really like, that was put together by a music shop in the United States, documenting the really neat musical heritage that has happened on the premises. The important musicians who have played guitars and drums for sale, the music-makers of the nation who have visited, hung-out, and chatted with the proprietor, over the decades, are included in the store journal along with photographs. The boys thought it would be nice, considering that dad is both an historian and writer, currently between gigs, to start piecing together the way they both started in the music industry…..as kids. I thought it was important as well, even without a book deal in the future, to document how they came to open this present Gravenhurst shop; on the tightest shoe-string budget you could imagine……two green guitar players having the nerve to enter the highly competitive domain of music-shop-management.

I've done their early years and it will be used on their new blog site, that has now officially made its way to the public domain. So check it out. It's personal, biased, full of nepotism and family allegiances, but it's honest and the real-article.

http://curriesmusic.blogspot.com/