World religion day

I finally got to see our new mayor Larry O'Brien yesterday. I was a guitar accompanist at World Religion Day for our little ones. Kids from all of Ottawa's religious communities sent performers to showcase a number of dances and songs.

The Sikh boys group did a dance called a Bhangra dance, dressed in colourful turbans and vests. One little fellow was a virtuoso dancer, and made break dancers look like amateurs. The Sikh girls sang a song asking for God to show mercy to his burning world. A group of Hindu dancers did a colourful dance, and most of the girls smiled the entire time.

We had the youngest group, by far. Slightly more than a dozen kindergarten-aged boys and girls sang two songs, and I was their guitar accompanist on one of them. They were terribly cute, singing, "God loves you, and we love you, and that's the way it should be!"

Metro described them as singing "folk hymns." Folk music, increasingly, seems to be the Catholic thing. :-)