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 my favourite things about ilyAIMY is our sheer versatility. It’s something I’ve always wanted to express in our website and presskit: click here if you like heavy metal, click here if you like hip hop, click here if you like country, click here if you like reggae – and here if you like folk music… we could have a dozen categories and a fully-fleshed presskit for each with quotes and imagery and a show resume that reflects it. Tonight we were rockin’ for the World Café stage and uber-murder-ballad folk for the Gene Shay’s show on WXPN. Despite popular belief, we can be thoroughly and completely appropriate!
We just don’t do kids songs.
Except Puff the Magic Dragon.
I wish we were doing a true bus tour with these people. I like them SO much and I’m jealous that Louise and Anna stayed with Heather and that I didn’t have time to hang out. They went and got crabs together while I was recording Ash and though my fingers would’ve been scarred and spicy for Friday night, I’d still have Loved to go get my arthropod on. Mmm delicious.
We won’t see them again for about a month and that makes me a little sad. I wanna get my bond on.
Pesky J. Nixon capturing the World Cafe Live audience and holding them gently. Louise Mosrie and her mandolin player, Anna, kicking off the second night of Falcon Ridge Most-Wanted players at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, PA. Blair Bodine was in her home town and I think she may have been primarily responsible for our Falcon Ridge Preview Tour selling out World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, PA.
After the World Cafe Live show, we all reported to the basement studios of WXPN for the legendary Gene Shay’s folk show. We all got to do a song and do a little mouth time with Gene. It would’ve been face time, but it was radio. (above is Pesky J. Nixon performing at WXPN in Philadelphia, PA) Pesky J. Nixon chatting with Gene Shay on WXPN. Gene Shay may be a folky, but his assistant’s a rocker and posed for the camera most prettily.
