It’s 10:25 PM and I finally finished today’s quota of procrastination. I can’t afford to fall further behind in my blogging, so I better start writing. This is my no work an all play week and I’m taking full advantage of it. Last night I saw the Scottish band Talisk at City Winery. This was […]
Category: Celtic Music
Today I’m finally going to finish writing about seeing Kittel & Co. and Maeve Gilchrist on Saturday night; yes, ancient history. We’ll start with a recap, sorry there’s no “skip recap” option. On Saturday Dan and I went to see Alkemie on the upper East side. That ended around 4:30. The next stop on our […]
I’m back! My shoulder and back are still sore but I am going to try and write today because I’ve been busy and want to catch up. Writing is good for my soul. I was going to write that writing is good for my mental health which seems more fitting for an anti-mystic rationalist. The […]
Portal to the Dreaming
Last night I saw one of the best concerts of my life, Talisk at Rockwood Music Hall. It was so great that instead of my usual clever opening that buries the lede I put this right up front so people seeing the preview will read this. It’s imperative that everyone that loves great music know […]
The Sultan of Folk
Sorry I’ve been so quiet. I know I barely touched Falcon Ridge but that will wait yet another day so I can write about my adventures the last few days, especially yesterday. I went to a new venue for me, The Sultan Room in Bushwick to see a lineup that might have been designed to […]
I spent the weekend at the New Bedford Folk Festival. Saturday started early; Mike picked me up at 6 AM. Sure I did that to work the election and when I volunteer at WFUV, but my body will always object. We talked about stopping at the Dunkin’ Donuts at my house so I didn’t even […]
How am I supposed to remember all the way back to yesterday? Blogging is hard. Wait, it’s coming to me, I went to a concert! I bet most of My Gentle Readers guessed that. It was a great one, Liz Hanley was joined by Eamon (rhymes with hey hun) O’Leary and Jefferson Hamer. It was […]
Last night Dan and I went to see Lúnasa at the Sheen center. Lúnasa is a great Irish band we both love. They were playing with Daoirí (pronounced Derry) Farrell. It’s always difficult to write about the Irish, I have to insert all the accents and explain how to pronounce the names. It’s worth […]
I’m out of the habit of writing. I must get back into it. This should have been written this morning. I have so many things on my mind. The problem is that I’m mentally sharp and it’s hard to keep things balanced on anything that comes to a point. One project that took some time […]
I had another pre-pandemic typical day. Yesterday’s adventure was going to Common Ground Coffeehouse to see The Murphy Beds. Even though they are a pain for the carless to get to shows at Common Ground are home games; I’m one of the volunteers. It helps that Carter’s taste is the closest to mine of any […]