It was pouring rain on Friday, however nothing may wipe the smile off of Jenna Dennison’s face as she reported for her first day of labor.
After a couple of years’ hiatus, the Holt Renfrew Ogilvy division retailer in downtown Montreal determined to carry again its resident bagpiper.
And Dennison was an ideal match for the job.
“We went by way of some auditions and we had been actually taken by Jenna, by her expertise and approachability,” stated Natalie Lord, divisional vice-president and common supervisor at Holt Renfrew Ogilvy.
Jenna Dennison was all smiles on Friday, her first day as resident bagpiper at Holt Renfrew Ogilvy in downtown Montreal. Jonah Aspler/World Information.
Some, nonetheless, could be excused for considering destiny had slightly one thing to do with it.
“Once I first moved to Montreal, I used to be about 10 or 11 years outdated, and the primary time I noticed a bagpiper up shut was really right here,” Dennison stated.
“The sound actually moved me, and I all the time keep in mind that expertise.”
It wasn’t till her teenagers, although, that Dennison determined to take up the pipes.
She says she did it as an “act of insurrection.”
“Fortunately, my mother and father had been very supportive and really affected person,” Dennison stated.
Now, 16 years later, Dennison is again the place all of it started.
“This can be a big honour,” she stated of her new gig, not solely as a result of she is the primary girl to carry the place, however due to those that got here earlier than.
“The opposite pipers, they’ve been my academics, they’ve been my function fashions,” she stated. “So to have the ability to be the subsequent one carrying on this custom is only a massive honour.”
And whereas Dennison is eager to hold on with custom, she does plan to carry slightly one thing new to the combination.
“I feel my favourite a part of being Holt Renfrew Ogilvy bagpiper is that it’s not simply purely conventional music, she stated. “I get the freedom to include a few of my very own compositions and a few modern bagpipe music.”
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