September 24th, 2024. The SPARK w Boy Meets Pearl.

Christian Crowley of Boy Meets Pearl caught me kicking off the night with Rebecca Berlin and Juels Bland (previewing our performance for the Takoma Street Festival on October 6th). It was a chaotic start to the night, with everyone running late due to the rain and a complicated setup. SO complicated that I forgot to start the Live stream! During the solo on Baliset I talked the back of the room through it (funny to watch 5 people descend upon my computer, pointing and sort of arguing) and we got things up and running. Thanks to Eric James Danowski for messaging me! It showed up on my WATCH because we Live in the future and… well… together we made it work!

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Tonight our featured artist was the “Queer-fronted & oddly orchestrated Boy Meets Pearl [who] offer modern takes on sea shanties, circus waltzes and Victorian Music Hall sing-a-longs!”… an accurate put completely inadequate description of this beautifully eclectic group of musicians. Fronted by the spectacularly charismatic Christian Crowley and Sea Griffin, Boy Meets Pearl (no graphic design-trained rob could ever use the abbreviation “BMP”) explores those sensual tales and oft-bawdy songs with instrumentation that careens from Glockenspiel to Chapman Stick, visiting autoharp and accordion and any number of idiosyncratic devices along the way.

David Potts-Dupre. David EISNER finally got our lights mounted in the ceiling and everything’s a little different. More intense, more colourful. We’re working through it!

Strangely – this sounded so much like what Jennifer Cutting and her Ocean Orchestra did that Jennifer Cutting and Steve Winick came out for the first time! We had a massive list, an exhausting but satisfying night, and though my body still HURTS from the sprains and twists of Sunday, the music made it all worth it.