Friday, May 6. The Buskers, arriving separately to maximize fossil fuel use--no, it's just that we came from four directions-- met at the South Woodstock, VT firehouse to play for a community get-together. 100% down home. And memory lane for me, who went to high school just across the street at the Woodstock Country School, which closed in 1980 (that kind of gives away my age bracket; so what). The main building, once a barn, now belongs to the Green Mountain Horse Association and is a barn again; and the smell of fresh manure from the fields around provided good rural context for our no doubt equally pungent sound. The next building over (once the school library where I won the spelling bee--sorry to keep bringing that up, Henry) is now the Vermont Horse Company, a huge equestrian store jam-packed with cool stuff, run by fellow Country Schooler Laura Spittle. It was her community-mindedness that came up with the event to lure people out of their winter lairs for some good food and music. Thank you, Laura. We had a blast.
Next up, a little more upscale: Thursday, May 12, The Spotlight Café at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, NH. We've been practicing like fiends since KZ arrived in town. Going to trot out a lot of new tunes: some of the band's best songwriting and I wish we could afford to haul into the studio right now and record them so they can get out there. sigh. Then on Saturday the 14th we play another new venue for us, The One World Coffeehouse in Essex, Mass. We'll do that one as a trio, and be a little more singer-songwritery. But I'll stomp on a tambourine and KZ will play that cajun triangle if the urge comes up. And it probably will.
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