I'm still busy, but far less stressed than I have been, and a maniness of good things is shaping up today. I had my shoe appointment, and instead of being frustrating and draining it was relaxing and fun, because instead of the old corp I went to a tiny place run by the music friend* who got fired by the big corp five years ago, the guy I've always ( Read more... )

And he explains one of the many benefits of real live musicians over piped-in sound ( Read more... )

On Friday Pinniped played at Kitzel's Crazy Delicious Delicatessen to an awesome ArtsWalk crowd. We didn't get people really going until the last couple of tunes, but we had people up and stomping and clapping to two sets at the end, one of which we hadn't performed before, so that was awesome! I'm especially thankful to the group of ladies who'd ( Read more... )

Title not intended to promise that this will be a recurring feature, merely that we need some way to get through Monday. Post for and inspired by evilsherbear and opalgirl.

The Carolina Chocolate Drops

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I'm not nearly as familiar with southern fiddle styles (Old Timey, Bluegrass, etc) as northern (Irish, Quebecois, etc), but I <3 the Carolina Chocolate Drops. They go ( Read more... )

Thursday: Took the day off and put up some insulation. Noticed the difference immediately.

Friday: Celebrated 11/11/11 with a rockin' Spinal Tap party at my folks' house. Words cannot do it justice. Jesse nearly hurt himself laughing when we discovered Effect 19 on the effects peddle with the electric violin (westrider says it's a talk-box). It sounds ( Read more... )

I was down in southern Oregon the first week of October visiting the grandparents, and we went to see Great Minds Unplugged, an awesome accoustic rock cover band which just happens to consist of my third cousin and my second cousin once removed (I think? Dad's cousin, anyway).


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Brett and Lizzie of Full Circle Farmstead live in the Chehalis reiver valley and were hit by the flood - not near as badly as many, but enough to want some clean up help. There was a work party down there today, full of musicians and contradancers, and as I'm singularly ill-suited to tromping through uneven fields in the cold, I brought coffee and ( Read more... )

Did you get a Skellington in your mail today?
I'm the covergirl for the FiddleTunes brochure. It arrived in the mail yesterday, and I almost didn't notice (I'm wearing someone else's hat. It's a disguise!). Yes, my 15 minutes of fame was being mailed, without warning, to several hundred fiddlers. Hooray? You'd think I could hold Centrum up for a ( Read more... )

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