I survived March and actually I kind of miss the craziness of totally different gigs every day...
there were definitely some new ones, like doing the parades, which were a lot of fun. Plus we did a lot of new songs, some of which are keepers and others are great for St. Patrick's Day, but probably won't make the regular set list. I also had two green bagels at the Park Slope Parade, courtesy of Marty Markowitz whose people were handing them out.
April is time to figure out the next big project (West Coast tour? Christmas recording? Collaborations with various musicians? Composing new tunes?) - whoever said life didn't have choices wasn't talking about my life.
In the meantime, the shows coming up are going to be nice ones-
April 16th 5 pm at the Long Island Violin Shop "An Evening of Irish Music and Poetry". With real poets no less - all the details
http://www.stringpoet.com/2011/03/irish-music-and-poetry/
http://www.liviolinshop.com
The Long Island Violin shop is turning out to be a nice community shop - lots of events and cool colors for instrument cases....(anyone for a pink cello case?)
The other news is that I checked out the new venue where Vita and I are playing May 24th.
It's called the Algonquin Seaport Theater, and it's worth checking out for the view alone. It's at South Street Seaport, on the 2nd floor of the Seaport Mall, way on the end, so it overlooks the water, and you see beautiful views of the Brooklyn Bridge right behind the stage.....
We're playing for one of the Tuesday Acoustic Nights, which start at 7 (we're first) and continue into the night with a variety of acoustic musicians. It's $10 and the best part is, all ages can come AND wine and drinks are served...so come on down May 24th 7 pm! www.algonquinseaporttheater.org
Lastly, if you haven't had a chance to hear Irish guitarist John Doyle, guess what, he's playing in Brooklyn this month (Sun April 10th at the Brooklyn Historical Society). Worth checking out!
http://www.brooklynhistory.org/visitor/calendar.html
