Childhood busking in Calgary opens door for young musical mom | 24CA News
What began as a household musical journey in downtown Calgary has blossomed into some good alternatives for a few gifted younger girls.
Jodie and Nique Bruce started busking as youngsters with their musically-minded dad Hughie.
“Music is one of the common threads that holds the generations together,” Hughie Bruce mentioned.
The trio busked steadily for years, the women honing their musical abilities alongside the way in which.
“The money that we made from busking, it funded a lot of the instruments I still use,” Jodie Bruce mentioned.
Now, the mom of a four-month-old daughter, Ruby, Jodie has relocated to Kelowna, B.C. Nique has additionally moved to the Okanagan metropolis with the 2 sisters utilizing it as a base to increase their musical alternatives.
“We’re playing lots of music festivals,” Jodie Bruce mentioned “And then I own a recording studio. There’s a few bands that rent it out as a rehearsal space.”
As for Hughie, his teaching didn’t cease with music. The veteran carpenter additionally taught his daughters construct the scaffolding used on development websites.
“It’s such a good thing to teach your kids how to develop a skill set,” Hughie mentioned.
“It helped pay for a lot of the things that we wanted to do,” mentioned Jodie, who, alongside together with her sister, went on to well-paying jobs placing up scaffolding.
“It funded a lot of my sister’s undergraduate degree – she’s doing her PhD right now in neuromuscular physiology, so scaffolding was a really good skill set to have.”
Jodie says it may not be too lengthy earlier than her daughter Ruby additionally takes up the household’s musical custom.
“It’s in her blood, right?”
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