2010
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March 6th, 2010.
Wednesday night we jit another open mic. At The Le Village African restaurant in Beltsville, MD we saw a bunch of great artists – but played with some of the worst sound imaginable. Yesterday at my open mic we had one of our regulars sitting outside with his camouflage pickup truck as he is wont…
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March 3rd, 2010.
Heather’s HOME! It’s a relief to have her. Last night we met up with one another at the Music Café in Damascus for their open mic night. It was the first time we’d been there, though I’ve been hearing about it for a while. A lot of the artists at the Haiti Benefit a couple…
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February 28th, 2010.
Andrew Luttrell and his guitarist Shane performing at Java Mammas. It’s always wonderful to see my idols from my younger years. If only they were all still alive It’s Sunday morning. I’m making coffee. Our coffeemaker is hugely industrial-looking and has been given the less-than-delicate name Eleanor. Eleanor needs to hurry it up because this…
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February 15th, 2010.
In an effort to be more connected with my local scene, I joined the Baltimore Songwriters Association and went to my first meeting last Monday. I met up with a couple of old friends and made some new ones and was treated to some great tenor horn playing. (she was accompanying the eternally-shorts-wearing Ken Gutberlet)…
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February 14th, 2010.
We were invited to be some of the musical entertainment after a big theatrical presentation of Brady Starr’s film “The Lift”. It was a classic hurry-up-and-wait – where we’d battled through over an hour of horrific city traffic to arrive before the sound guy. Everything was delayed and we ended up not getting a sound…
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February 12th, 2010.
I think Cassie is more glad than most that we’re finally digging out. Cat torture, though it never gets old for ME, probably wanes in its level of fun for the actual cats rather rapidly. Insomnia. It was only a matter of time before it had its way with my head again. I was lying…
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February 8th, 2010.
The sun slowly bleeds out of the sky in Catonsville, MD. It’s so much snow. I mean – wow. Obama took a lot of flak about speaking his mind regarding DC’s response to a couple of inches of snow in December. He’s definitely been silent during THIS storm. It’s paralyzing. There’s simply no place to…
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February 5th, 2010.
There’s so much snow on the ground as of Saturday morning that we can’t get out of the house. We finally manage to get out through the back basement door. Terry Pratchett, one of my favourite authors, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s some time ago. It’s one of the only news stories since 9/11 to make…
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February 2nd, 2010.
Last week we joined dozens of other local artists for placement auditions at the Strathmore Mansion in Rockville, MD. They have a LOT of different arts and music programs going over the next year and they chose a bunch of local artists (they saw us at the Takoma Park Folk Festival) to come and play…
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January 28th, 2010.
Sunday morning we made our way down to a district in Pittsburgh filled with all sorts of little eateries and food markets. Most were closed on Sunday but we got breakfast at a place Heather had been to called Pamela’s Diner which has the BEST breakfast freakin’ EVER. Go there. Someone out there is a…