what i saw at TJ's last night ........ so who says you need to buy a guitar ??

Keira-WitherKay

peter (evolution) and I played a few songs at TJ's open mic last night , with our new "Duo Guitarras" performing my original world
music , Bob was there( but sadly did not play .but is booked to host a show on 21st ...correct me if the day is wrong bob ) and Fingerpicker was doing the sound so nice to see some familiar faces......

the evening was fun and we were entertained by some cool fingerstyle playing, some hillarious irish songs from Tom playing his martin ( i'm not sure which but it sounds awesome )

and then the surprise and let me say treat for the night was a blues duo .............. and for 1st song the guitarist played a 3 string cigar box guitar with bottle neck slide .....and the other dude ( sorry i forgot names.......) played a mean harmonica but brought his authentic blues harp mic......awesome ......

being blonde i forgot to set up the video recorder to catch our set and remebered it when the blues band came on so here's some footage of them............

and don't you love that guitar ....and nice players too the both of them.......... they made my night

and as i said in title who said one needs to buy a guitar .......... below is a close up of it

as always it was a fun evening thanks to TJ's acoustic club for hosting this

Squonk

Brilliant stuf Keira

The cigar box sounds good as well.

And trust the one night I skip, I miss you and Evo doing your thing ☹

Bob-Dubery

Keira WitherKay wrote: peter (evolution) and I played a few songs at TJ's open mic last night , with our new "Duo Guitarras" performing my original world
music , Bob was there( but sadly did not play .but is booked to host a show on 21st ...correct me if the day is wrong bob ) and Fingerpicker was doing the sound so nice to see some familiar faces......

Yes. The 21st, and I think it's a good line up for that night.

It's always nice to meet up with Keira, and it was pleasure to finally meet Evolucian and to listen to him play.

I'm glad that Keira started this discussion. I've been out the house the last couple of nights listening to live music, and you know there are lot of fine players around.

Wednesday we at Andy McGibbon's acoustic music forum. One highlight for me there was the duo of Richard Bruyns and Mike Burger. Very cool instrumental stuff - lap steel and fingerstyle. Richard has an approach to lap steel that can take it away from it's traditional turf of bluegrass and country. Mike is one of the best sounding acoustic players around - and I mean that. A great feel for the instrument and a great touch (I have often said that music shops should hire Mike to just sit around and play guitars because he always makes a guitar sound good).

Also at Andy's was Thomas Selmer-Olsen who is an accomplished musician, fine singer and gives a very convincing and well worked out solo performance. Well thought out arrangements allow him to present his songs in such a way that you don't get a sense of things missing or that he's making do with a strum-along. In particular he does some fine songs in an early 70s soul style.

Ja... I left TJs early (got a cold or something), but it was a great open mic night with some new faces. Again proof that there is talent in this town looking for outlets. Duos Guitarras got the evening off to a strong start and set the bar high with some very good playing. Tom Howden is a great musical story teller (he's on my bill for the 21st) and chose to do a set of hilarious Irish songs (though one, by Tom Lehrer, was more about the Irish than actually Irish itself). A young guy named Wayne popped up a month ago to do some fingerstyle stuff - mostly influenced by Leo Kottke. He was back again last night and this time played with greater confidence and showed more of what he can do.

I've posted details of the event on the 21st on the "events" board. Come along. There is talent in this town, and I've been lucky enough to get some of these talented people to play on that evening. 20 bucks admission! It's going to be a big bargain.

Note to self: Get out there more and listen to more live music.

Keira-WitherKay

Squonk wrote:
And trust the one night I skip, I miss you and Evo doing your thing ☹

yeah squonk i was hoping you were gonna be there on the way down i told evo how cool your solo acoustic compositions are ....... so you were missed......

but sorry for no announcements it was a last minute thing .......... usually i teach on thurs night but i had 2 students out of the country for a week so my diary cleared up for this thurs after 7 ........and evo and i decided only at 3 pm that afternoon to go down and do a set .............

but hopefully many more gigs to come.............