September 2021
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September 30th, 2021. Sky Stage & Going out WEST.
September 25th, Jeff Miller opened for us at the Sky Stage in Frederick, MD. Exquisite as always, I always see something new in his performance and this time it’s the stunning clarity in his ever-increasingly-ranged falsetto. A strange sense of normalcy as we head west on I-70. Our gateway to so much of America, a…
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September 28th, 2021. Get to the end of the week.
Thursday night I ran a webcast for FocusMusic of Tabla For Two. It’d finally happened : one of the groups I work with had booked a performer who’d simply had NO capacity for webcasting… but fortunately HAPPENED to be local – so I drove down to Bethesda, MD and set up three cameras and some…
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September 22nd, 2021. Killing time.
We are experts at getting places early and finding inexpensive ways to be allowed to exist until it is our time to shine. Wednesday it was all about getting around the Baltimore Beltway, down I-95 and around the DC Beltway and over to Vienna, VA before (or after rush hour) and so I discovered the…
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September 22nd, 2021. Ani DiFranco and the Indigo Girls.
The crowd filling in at Wednesday night’s show at Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA. Not OUR show of course. We were there to see the Indigo Girls and Ani DiFranco. NOT particularly in that order! And fill in it does…. The week before Trump was elected Kristen and I went to see the Indigo Girls…
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September 21st, 2021. The SPRING open mic w Jeff Miller.
A good number of the locals are beginning to find us! Laurie Lawson, Jim Salmon and Armin Hadamer uncasing and warming up. A beautiful third open mic (the second one was hosted by Rowan Corbett whilst I was away running amok with Heather in NYC. Featured artist Jeff Miller took the stage in the middle…
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September 20th, 2021. I’m okay.
Thursday night I helped run a 13.5 hour Yom Kippur webcast with Dave Eisner and my friend McKinley. It was an exercise in patience, panic, beauty and … some other things to boot. Good music, great piano player, poor scheduling, and the feeling that what with all the lip service to Black Lives Matter etc…
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September 14th, 2021. New York, New York.
New York New York, the city that never shuts up. David Bowie peeeeering at us. Driving up to New York City with Heather to perform at John Platt’s “On Your Radar” : the first of his programs to be back “in person” since March of 2020, the first one since then not produced online by…
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September 12th, 2021. Gettysburg Music and Wine Festival.
Friday night Heather and I ran out to Bengie’s in Middle River, MD to see Free Man and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. It was one HELL of a double feature, probably even smarter than the theatre had realized. Great night. Great chicken fingers. Great weather. Great night OFF. I’m up, I’m…
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September 7th, 2021 at the SPRING.
Me worshipping Kristen in order to kick off the SPRING open mic properly. Wow. So that was a beautiful night. Not as good as I’d hoped, not as bad as I’d feared, but in reality just about perfect. Relaxed enough that I felt the joy of being in other people’s company, stressed enough that I…
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September 6th, 2021. Good gigs. Bad dreams.
Above – a dance party from Tuesday night’s show at Lena’s in Alexandria, VA. Joyous times betwixt the rains! September MIGHT kick my ass. In a good way I guess, but I reached a kind of critical mass of things not fitting in my brain yesterday and I’m trying to get right in my head…