May 2025
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May 31st, 2025. A Fest Less Ordinary.
Saturday found us playing a beautiful festival benefit for a Farm Less Ordinary, a farm out in Virginia that trains and employs kids and adults on the autism spectrum. They start with local farm work and then continue with socialization at farmer’s markets, and they do really incredible work. It was an honour to take…
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May 29th, 2025. Loss.
This isn’t actually a Memorial Day post. But on Memorial Day I was in Greenbelt, MD and saw this chalk art. Everything I remember about the war… I’m tryin’. Every day I’m tryin’. I can’t sleep. Lying in bed, I feel like something’s crushing me. I feel like my skin’s too tight and I’m slowly…
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May 28th, 2025. Here comes the rain again…
Bird’s nest in the yard! Listening to the rain is one of my favourite things. I sleep with the window open even though it means my allergies make me feel terrible the next day. I move slow in the morning, listening, even though I’ve got too much to do. The front screen door rattles in…
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May 27th, 2025. The SPARK w Tavair Dominque.
It’s the thing I like most about having a Moderately Clever Watch. Receiving Susan’s updates on frogs while I’m playing! Baltimore-based singer/songwriter, poet and author Tavair Dominque is a positive FORCE on the local music scene – and I do mean FORCE. It’s not a happy-go-lucky grin, it’s the grin into the wind, fighting the…
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May 25th, 2025. Concert Review: Bear McCreary, Themes & Variations Tour
rob and I went to see Bear McCreary’s “Themes and Variations” tour at the 9:30 Club, and man – we wish we had dragged the rest of the band with us! People will often ask what ilyAIMY’s musical influences are – or they try to guess. I think one thing we never think to respond…
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May 20th, 2025. The SPARK w Sadia the Star.
My friend Miles Spicer (MSG Acoustic Blues) brought Sadia the Star out to my open mic night as a “voice you’ve GOT TO HEAR” – an up-and-coming Washington DC artist with a beautiful voice and heartfelt, intimate lyrics. In our world today, maybe it’s good to step back into a microcosm every once in a…
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May 19th, 2025. Return to Hyperion.
Nothing to do with Hyperion. ilyAIMY setting up in Severna Park, MD on Sunday, May 18th for a little gazebo show. Beautiful day. Argument over whether this truly counts as a “gazebo” though. Strangely, typing in the tags… is it possible this is the ONLY time we’ve EVER played in Severna Park?!!? Sitting in stillness…
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May 17th, 2025. Graduations.
THIS is the stuff that’s real. I helped Kristen and her dad put on a cello and piano “Musicale” last Tuesday at his new home in Heartlands in Ellicott City, MD. It made a lot of people really, really happy. As usual, the pictures in this post are generally of the good things, and the…
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May 15th, 2025. Love Point.
Our friend Brian hired us to play his girlfriend’s 30th Birthday Party. It was an absolute RIOT of a good time, and the house… nay… ESTATE where the party happened was incredible. Here’s Brian walking the band… Hrm, this photo doesn’t really capture the fact that the water was FULL of jellyfish! Brian was kind…
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May 13th, 2025. The SPARK w just US!
Due to some miscommunication on the part of some people who totally weren’t me, but some miscommunication that I could’ve totally foreseen and so THAT part IS on me – we had no featured artist tonight. She was closer to Tacoma than Takoma and that meant we had an “early” enough night that I got…