2021
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August 14th, 2021. Friday the 13th.
Friday the 13th was a night of plans, back up plans, and changing plans. We got everything under cover before the wind and rain REALLY built up… Well, I’ve got to admit last night was EXHAUSTING, and as I look at my gigantic pile of wet, mud-spattered cables, speakers, instruments with broken strings, pedals that…
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August 12th, 2021. Silver lining, where now?
(Okay – here’s a silver lining – on August 10th, 2021 – while Tinsmith was performing at Jammin Java in Vienna, VA, Rowan found our sticker still up in the bathroom!) A silver lining! I’m taking photos of my microphone with springy looking flowers to gather graphics for a new open mic I’ll be running…
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August 12th, 2021. Happy Birthday Alfred.
In all the excitement of the past week, I’m sorry that I forgot to celebrate a birthday – Alfred Kamajian had drummed w ilyAIMY through several albums & he was formative in how we arranged many songs, practiced & worked together as a band. His death in 2018 was a tragic loss to the arts…
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August 8th, 2021. Well rain, your move…
I don’t know that I have much to say other than thank you for an incredible weekend – below, pics from a wonderful concert at Sow a Seed House Concerts in New Hartford, CT with our friend Shawn Taylor! Shirley telling her chipmunk “the band is gone, you can come back now” Setting up on…
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August 7th, 2021. Particle Accelerator.
Good morning Glastonbury! Saturday morning in Glastonbury was idyllic minus the aches and pains of the previous day’s load in, load out, chaos and angst! The show was so wonderful it hardly mattered though. Today shalt be an easy haul, with all the streaming and mainline gear sitting at “home” and us just basically having…
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August 6th, 2021. Glastonbury, CT.
Joey’s in the Joey-mobile and his drumkit’s going in THERE – but he’s got to be back on Sunday – so gear and clothes and the physical bodies of me and Kristen and Heather and Rowan + PA system and streaming gear have got to fit in THIS car! As we all tiredly gather around…
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August 5th, 2021. Can we LEAVE already?!
One last photo from Joel Pomerantz’ memorial – the Electric Maid’s tribute to his work with them. Okay, THIS is the last pic! Trying not to think about this too extensively, mostly just typing to get it out of my head. We got trolled pretty aggressively by someone on Twitch during our Lair show tonight.…
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July 30th, 2021. Joel Pomerantz Memorial.
Gathering at Seekers Church in Washington DC to remember Joel Pomerantz. Jay Keating, of SAW (Songwriters Association of Washington) ring leader for the evening. Tonight was really beautiful. I don’t know what Joel would’ve thought of it – there were in evidence PLENTY of people here who knew him far better than I – I…
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July 29th, 2021. COVID upDate.
At the moment I’ve got to admit, COVID’s not really terrifying me. Not like people do. Not like the racist radical right’s attack on American ideals and democratic principles, not like getting into a car accident and suffering insurmountable medical debt, not like running a mic cable, having someone trip over it, and trying to…
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July 25th, 2021. And then it all went BOOM.
So – positive first : All the stuff I was saying about my community, giving back, and it then synergistically giving back to ME again – is probably how Mark H Rooney felt tonight about taiko. It was cool to watch that outpouring of Love and … well … thankfulness allll from the outside. Now…