Perry Hall hosts a Saturday night open mic night and I very, very rarely am able to go. It hadn’t occurred to me JUST how rare till the host greeted me and said “wow, we haven’t seen you since you were our featured artist nine years ago!”
Well, I guess someone WAS counting.
SO – my friend Siobhan O’Brien was performing there and though it’s a great collection of very nice people, I was very aware that she was driving about two hours from where she Lives in Alexandria, VA to come and play for tips in a church basement north of Baltimore. I figured I had the night off, it’d be the right thing to be a familiar, friendly face.
T’was a good thing I did.
Plus, Siobhan’s great.
Looking upon the room… my OX feels alien. 
Open mic at Perry Hall, MD. Siobhan O’Brien was having some tech issues with her brand new [and already once-returned] Breedlove (thanks Guitar Center) so she played my OX for the night. So… Dave Benham’s head is HUGE!!!! Dave Benham was the other familiar face at Perry Hall. I had to chat with Siobhan about why she was giggling (actually, she’s a chortler more than a giggler) – apparently in Ireland you PLAY a whistle. Flutes are pretty much penises. This has allowed me to tease her mercilessly ever since.
