June 2023
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June 30th, 2023. Opinions.
Sunday in Fells Point was a fantastic show. Big stage (new vocabulary word : “SL100”!) and a familiar sound engineer (Matt Vivlamore rocks, and also introduced me to the Shure SM91A which we use for our cajons and kicks nowadays) and a beautiful day when we were expecting rain. Very good show. ilyAIMY in Fells…
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June 27th, 2023. The Open Spark w Jeff Miller.
The rains made the drive down to Takoma Park today look… less than appealing. But the clouds were to the left, and I turned right and I had clear skies and clear roads once I got south of 32. For others, the roads were less forgiving. A government motorcade closing a quarter of the Capital…
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June 25th, 2023. Grover Duffield.
Cancer sucks, but we knew that. We lost Grover Duffield to it yesterday morning. His wife messaged me and I reached out to our close VOM family, and then I spent Saturday grabbing the video of us playing with him down in Oklahoma because that’s how I cope. There’s an intimacy to taking a recording…
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June 23rd, 2023. Moof.
Our friend Ray nabbed us for his annual “office cookout party” thingie which is really just an excuse for Ray to show off the fact that he CAN cook for 50 people and look good doing it. Saturday was a twofer and we tried not to exhaust ourselves before then heading to play Little Market…
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June 20th, 2023. The Open Spark w Ruth Wyand and Mark “Muleman” Massey.
Dave Eisner, I often think you have bad ideas. I’m often wrong. It’s true. You’re sometimes, occasionally, I’ll begrudgingly admit, absolutely right. We’d had Ruth Wyand on the books for a long time. She’d contacted me about FocusMusic shows, and when the Board didn’t jump on her, I took a gamble and asked if she’d…
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June 19th, 2023. Happy Juneteenth.
Happy Juneteenth! It’s nice to not have a conflicted holiday. I mean, you can probably GET conflicted about it – you could probably get frustrated that most people don’t know what it IS, you could get frustrated that plenty of people still don’t CARE what it is. I’m sure there’ll be an uptick in racist…
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June 15th, 2023. The Open Air Open Mic and Surrounding Events.
Taping interviews is a misnomer. RECORDING interviews in Washington DC. Get up. Drive to DC. Shoot the interviews. Enjoy the stories of 1970s, 80s Washington DC through eyes different from my own. The AIDS epidemic, Apartheid, racism, and good things too. Heroism and good parenting. Hilarious stories and beauty. But that’s a tale for another…
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June 14th, 2023. Alexandria Waterfront in the Sun.
ilyAIMY on the Alexandria Waterfront at Robinson Landing in Alexandria VA. I really appreciate our association with Yellow Door Concerts. They put us in interesting places in Alexandria, VA and we generally have a good time. Add to that : this time we had a friend pop in from Columbus OH AND my photography teacher…
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June 13th, 2023. the Spark with Tony Denikos.
Tony Denikos is really, really good. An incredible voice that combines country tang with urban talk and an R&B control so subtle you almost don’t notice it until you realize JUST HOW COMPLICATED his vocal acrobatics can be. And THEN there’s the writing. The man’ll make you weep. And then laugh. And then weep. Really.…
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June 12th, 2023. Interviews and Engineering.
Sunday afternoon found me running cameras for the continued interviews of In Process – today with Michelle Lanchester – Camila Bryce (left) is a FORCE of an interviewer and – belatedly I realized that though I’d edited plenty of videos with her IN THEM, I’d never met her face-to-face! Pam Rogers (right) had been interviewed…