May 2012
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May 30th, 2012.
Two Acacia Sears sightings in under a week? Madness – here’s Acacia and Heather performing together at my open mic in Takoma Park, MD. When you play a happy hour hosted by an IT company, you don’t expect to play quite such a beautiful venue. Until that IT company mentions you’ll be playing at their…
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May 19th, 2012.
Holy crap – I think this is the biggest dragonfly I’ve ever seen – I thought it was a hummingbird when it buzzed me in my front yard. Growing up is often a process of realizing that the things that are important to you, the things that molded you, the moments that you hold as…
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May 16th, 2012.
Heather sporting horns at the Maryland Faerie Festival in Darlington, MD. I can’t seem to stay away from politics for too long these days – this is something I wrote when the NDAA became a huge deal… right AFTER it was passed… last year. One of the key things that a lot of our knee-jerk…
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May 16th, 2012.
Always an interesting day at the shop – I get to be here for another two weeks before we ‘re back on the road. Today it was an interesting bass guitar made in the early 1900s maybe, with a genuine upright bass headstock. It’s strange to be so close to where I grew up. Not…
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May 13th, 2012.
Random cat gallery. Happy Orion day! We got home pretty late from Philadelphia – and yet I STILL couldn’t go to bed. He was too cute to be removed. That cuteness waned when he couldn’t sit still and decided to “massage” my ankles. Huh. I wonder what’s up with that. Up with what you may…
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May 7th, 2012.
Mmm, the delicious foods at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, PA. I DO Love feastin’ in the green room! World Café and WXPN down and driving home. This second night of the Preview Tour felt good and solid and put us more in front of an almost-bar-crowd that we were unafraid to hammer. One of…
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May 6th, 2012.
HelllLO! A stunning super moon the night of our show in Takoma Park, MD. Absolutely fantabulous night. Always satisfying when a venue that gives you a lot of worried guff about draw and how impossible your show’s going to be that then says, at the end of the night, “so when’re we doing this again?”…
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May 2nd, 2012.
Sigh – after months of prep and emails and tech sheets, carefully crafted ilyAIMY graphics and input lists, it comes down to this. Four scribbled stage plots laying out how the night’s inputs and monitors and mics and everything’s going to flow. Shh. Don’t tell anyone but Loralyn actually runs these things. It’s the last-minute…