September 2011
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September 30th, 2011.
To break up the drive between Plattsburgh, NY and Putnam, CT Heather and I stopped at reknown folk club Caffe Lena to hit up their open mic. Unfortunately, not knowing the schedule completely we spent about an hour locked out of the place. However – that gave us just enough time to grab some sushi…
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September 29th, 2011.
Of course, while experimenting with my camera, I had some failed experiments with the “panarama” settings (crossing Lake Champlain, somewhere betwixt New Hampshire and New York). ilyAIMY crossing Lake Champlain – though I kept my eyes peeled and my camera ready, there were no Champ sitings. Le sigh. Last night we played the first of…
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September 28th, 2011.
Last night was unexpectedly awesome and it had nothing to do with the music. We played the Rhode Island Songwriters Association open mic as the featured artist, and the room was good, the audience was great, and the other players were wonderful. There was a lot of talent in the room – but what totally…
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September 24th, 2011.
(editor’s note – okay, as I reorganize the Journal, I’m going to try to realign photos with entries – good lord they’re WAY OFF – so … starting NOW… -rob 3/2/21) Exhausting day. Holy crap. But I don’t get to bitch, not really. Kristen had another gig after our two four hour ilyAIMY shows AND…
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September 23rd, 2011.
So as we’re driving along, the road ends. And yet the GPS says “go that way”. The GPS counts this ferry as a “toll road”. We were kind of alarmed, but once we found that the ferries run 24/7 at 20 minute intervals and are a third of the price of what we’d encountered the…
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September 21, 2011
I’m still fighting with the settings on my new phone, trying to make it WORK as a camera – here’s Joanne Lurgio (host of the RISA open mic at Biki’s Bar in Warwick, RI) kicking off the night with her bass player on her brand new stage. This HAD been running down the street at…
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September 18th, 2011.
David Eisner, owner of House of Musical Traditions and finder of great musicians, didn’t have time to change after he raced from the Maryland Renaissance Festival to my open mic at Capital City Cheesecake in Takoma Park, MD. Despite that, there was no way he’d let some tight pants and a fancy hat stand between…
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September 17th, 2011.
Our opening act at Coffee Amici – not always good to have an opening act that outright INTIMIDATES you, but I’ll sit and watch Phillip Allen and Caitlin Michelle Stoner for hours, and if having them entrance our audience as an opening act is the way to see them, that’s just fine by me! My…
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September 17, 2011 – Indianapolis, IN to Findlay, OH
Having just done a show with Shane Speal it was wonderful to come home to new cigar box instruments back home. Above is one of Stephen Pollack’s cigar box ukuleles at House of Musical Traditions. This is probably my favourite of all the ones he’s built. It’s just a cool SHAPE. We rolled into Indianapolis…
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September 16th, 2011.
Heather says hi. So does all of Columbus, OH. They say it like this: “O H”!!!! Now you say: “I O!!!!” (see? The “hi” is RIGHT in the middle!) That really scared the Hell out of us the first time it happened to us, but now we know to yell back joyously. You know, so…