RCMP Musical Ride wows the crowd – TWICE!

This year, during the Labour Day weekend the Paris Fairgrounds held the 166th annual Paris Fair! It featured multiple attractions such as famous carnival rides, yummy food served from food trucks, a community artwork section curated by youth residents in the area, and most importantly, a very special performance from the RCMP Musical Ride! If you weren’t able to watch it, don’t worry because I’m about to give you a full recap on what happened. And if you have absolutely no idea what the RCMP Musical Ride is, don’t worry because I’ll be able to keep you up to date on that too

Now if you have next to no knowledge on what the RCMP Musical Ride is, think of the RCMP Musical Ride like a synchronized swimming team, but with horses instead of swimmers. They do cool tricks and formations to music It's like a fancy horse show, but even cooler!

There are a total of thirty-two riders who are real-life Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officers! But now

Paris Independent Junior Correspondent Stephen L was very impressed with the RCMP Musical Ride performance at the Paris Fair. “The Two Carousels,” “The Bridal March,” and “Threading The Needle” were some of his favourite maneuvers.

Photos by Michelle Malvaso

you’re probably wondering if when you become a Canadian police officer you can qualify for this job as well instantly, right? Well, it’s not that straight-forward. You see, they do of course have to go through the standard police officer training, but they also have to go through special training to become one of the riders on the musical ride as well! It really makes it a special job. You would definitely love to have one of them as your neighbour! Get it?

So, every year, the musical ride performs in around 50 communities around Canada annually from May to October, and our Paris Fair was very lucky to bring them here to our small town for not one, but two days performing their very entertaining set! And fortunately, I was there to watch it and I’m about to give you the scoop now!

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The RCMP performed many tricks during their performance that were very fun to watch, and I noticed something Most of these tricks that they have performed are quite difficult for any other horse group to achieve without months, maybe even years of practice But, they pulled the same tricks off without any struggle and that’s definitely some talent that needs to be appreciated more. For example, one of the tricks involved an interpretation of the horses moving in a circle titled “The Maze”, which transitioned into the horses moving in a circular formation and then slowly creating a smaller circle inside of the bigger circle keeping the same motion without bumping into any other horses titled “The Two Carousels”. And to up the difficulty, the bigger circle became smaller and smaller until it couldn’t anymore and still nobody bumped into each other They kept this up for about twenty seconds until they disbanded again. Now that’s very impressive! Other tricks that they did were titled “The Bridal March”, “Threading The Needle”, “The Charge”, a trick that was depicted on the two dollar coin, and another “very difficult trick” titled “The Revolving Turnstop” They also did a trick called “The Star”, in which four lines of horses intercrossed through each other in the middle and came out the other side without any physical interaction that did not fail to grab applause from the audience And of course, the audience rose as they played O Canada.

“It’s directed at everyone, really” That was the response that was given when I spoke with a mother with her young daughter I asked her if she thought the RCMP Musical Ride is more directed at children rather than adults “You can be seven years old, like my daughter, or you can be seventy, and you’ll still find this very entertaining.” I like what she said, because this show is a family-friendly show. You can bring your grandparents and your grandchildren and it’s guaranteed that everyone will have a blast And if you won’t take my word for it, take the audience’s. Because I can assure you that after nearly every trick that the RCMP have performed, loud applause was given. This goes to show how awesome the RCMP Musical Ride really is! And I hope that next time you catch them at the Paris Fair in a couple of years, you’ll love them as much as you love my puns Sounds good, yay or neigh?

The RCMP Musical Ride put on two special performance s at the Paris Fair last week.

-Stephen L, Junior Correspondent for the Paris Independent

Jack Stanley Griffin 1952-2024

Suddenly, at Brantford General Hospital, Brantford, on Monday September 2, 2024, formerly of Glen Morris, in his 73rd year. Beloved son to the late Bruce (1977) and Shirley Griffin (2022); loved Dad to Treva Griffin (Willie Morley), Mandy Shuart (Shawn) and Brittany Cormier (Brian); cherished Pa to Cassie, Jordan, Chandler, Van, Harley, Scarlett, Karev, Siena and Barack; Predeceased by his sister Brenda Durham (Jeff)

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