Hey kids,
A bunch of you had expressed interest in seeing video from my gig last week. 13 recorded these with his phone, so the quality isn't great. I think it makes my mandolin sound a little more high-pitched and annoying than it normally sounds (at least I hope so!).
Here are four of the sixteen songs I performed.
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Blind Stupid Love (The Barnacle Song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIuItc2ozBs
Darwinian Gospel Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1-F1TqhdYQ
The Women that I’ve Loved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QIWA-bkyJk
Moo-cow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URA25Z5rua8
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Also, I don't think I've mentioned this before, but one of the board of directors for the folk society I belong to got in touch with me to see if I have a band. She has a concert coming up in March that she needs one more band for. Since I run the weekly folk jam for them, I told her that I will have one put together in no time. I got in touch with a couple guys, and we'll be playing a 45 minute set at this concert. Feeling pretty cool about this.
ALSO, a guy who is one of the organizers for the weekly open stage I attend is also the artistic director for a new festival in town (this April will be its third annual festival). He told me that he wants to have a banjo workshop at the festival, and asked if I would be willing to get up on a stage with three other banjo players to talk about our banjos, our playing philosophy, etc., and do some playing. I said yes, of course. Now there are two things that are really cool about being asked to do this:
#1 - The other three banjo-players are the best in the city, so he obviously thinks I'm in the same class as they are. I don't, but I'm willing to accept the compliment.
#2 - I had decided a couple of years ago, when my therapy first started, that I needed to set some goals for myself, and that at least one of them should be a ridiculous goal. My ridiculous goal was to play at a festival in 2014. How frigging cool is THAT?
