August 2011
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August 27th, 2011.
Most of my entries start with where we’re headed to or where we’re headed from. My entire Life is about either being in transition or being in transit. It’s not deep, it just seems to be the case. And so it’s 12.50am and we’re headed back from Annapolis where we played a bar gig –…
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August 26th, 2011.
ilyAIMY performing at the Baltimore Songwriter’s Association open mic at Te Amo in Baltimore, MD. I’ll be hosting this every third Wednesday in Canton – I think there will be another of their gourmet BLTs in my future at around that point. The first dulcimer player to ever make her way to my Trax on…
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August 24th, 2011.
Tuesday was a strange, strange day. I felt my first earthquake: a 5.8 centred in Mineral, VA – I was at House of Musical Traditions where the grinding began and we thought it was a truck, and then the rumbling went on and I became sort of convinced that we were victims of a flash…
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August 23rd, 2011.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA A major part of our audience at the house concert we did on August 14th in Burtonsville, MD was kids. Everyone seemed to have a couple. And we watched our mouths despite the protestations that the children had all heard our CDs. Knowing me and Keola though, we hung tough to our…
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August 15th, 2011.
2/5 of ilyAIMY moonlighting as the Acacia Sears Band! Those hussies! Still, watching her – there’s no wonder at all that they can’t resist her charms – and Rowan’s voice sounds wonderful with hers! Having Monday off for these two weeks of “vacation” from Everyday Gourmet’s open mic has allowed me to wander up to…
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August 12th, 2011.
I been working on the banjo. I’ve pulled it apart, dismantled the whole thing but have yet to figure out how to rehead it. I’ll win against it eventually. As I’ve pulled it apart I’ve discovered that it’s a 1924 Vega “M” style 17-fret tenor built in Boston, MA. I’m hoping to clean it up real…
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August 3rd, 2011.
My friends Guen and Justin performing at my open mic at Every Day Gourmet in Takoma Park, MD. They got bawdy, to the obvious enjoyment of singer/songwriter David Potts-Dupre. I’m not sleeping. I guess that’s not news. I’m often writing when I’m not sleeping. The last couple of days I’ve gone to bed like a…