2019


  • April 27th, 2019.

    April 25th, 2019 – Acoustic Soul. Thursday night it was time to come back and hang out with Marc Evans and Chuck the Madd Ox and Kevin Jackson at Marc’s Acoustic Soul series. Running for over 11 years, it may well be the oldest steadily running open mic series in the city, but it IS…

  • April 25th, 2019.

    Photos from April 22nd, 2019 at Teavolve. A good night with featured artist Kevin Stanley gorgeous voice. And a fun night. Featured artist Kevin Stanley. AND a couple of people decided to declare their Love for one another. They were firm they were NOT getting married… and that they were NOT going on a honeymoon.…

  • April 24th, 2019.

    This SHOULD make everything better. But sometimes it doesn’t. I HATE talking on the phone. I don’t think I can overstate that. Even people I know, it fills me with dread. Nowadays I kind of have an excuse not to answer it. Literally billions of spam calls blanket our phone system and I frankly don’t…

  • April 19th, 2019.

    The stage is set for April 18th’s show at the Ottobar : Brass Against with Baltimore-locals Soul Cannon. The Les Pauls have been placed on the stage with care… I don’t remember how Brass Against the Machine first crossed my desk – and at first it seemed entirely too gimmicky: Sure, brass band covering Rage…

  • April 14th, 2019.

    April 8th at Teavolve w Heather Aubrey Lloyd. Mostly with the idea that I wanted to demonstrate an ability to capture some good Heather video, Monday night I had Heather as my featured artist… I didn’t take a lot of photos of HER because I was busy doing THIS : Mike on the mic. Welcome…

  • April 7th, 2019.

    April 1st, 2019 at Teavolve w Jeff Miller. Another fantastic night at Teavolve. With about 15 performers total and Jeff Miller as my feature, how could it not be? Jeff’s usual Baltimore host wasn’t in town, having been deployed [thank you for your service] so Jeff came home with me and Kristen. Alfonso Christian. Philip.…

  • March 31st, 2019.

    Friday March 29th found Kristen taking us to see the Catonsville Steel Band. I didn’t know you could SHRED on steel drums… but holy crap, you can totally shred on steel drums. Saturday morning found us driving up to Hanover, PA – because you know – we’d been in Maryland almost TWO WEEKS!!!! Tonight, it…

  • March 29th, 2019.

    Well, apparently Tony Cox, Trump’s appointee to chair the EPA, doesn’t believe that there is a “relationship between [particulate matter] exposure and mortality” – and NPR agrees that it’s actually quite hard to show empirically the links between air pollution and health risks cause you “can’t just run experiments on people”… but it seems Tony…

  • March 28th, 2019.

    The last several days have been rewarding in the way that being a teacher can be rewarding – and in a way that it so rarely is : being thanked by people you’re trying to help isn’t really the usual way. You know how it is. Petting the cat. A lot. Apparently I made Kristen’s…

  • March 23rd, 2019.

    So, I’m not quite as good at this as Heather is, but I had fun putting it together! I’m sending a couple of these off as thank yous… but since I’m printing them at home I’m just hoping it doesn’t rain… It’s good to be home. You wouldn’t know it maybe, not from the outside,…