Picture of my wife and I with the Small Potatoes and Gracie their dog after the concert 6/27/09
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If you ever hear that Small Potatoes is playing nearby, you owe it to yourself to go see them.
It’s hard to describe Jacquie Manning and Rich Prezioso in simple terms. They defy being put into any one musical category. I think my personal favorite was an Irish song, - Jacquie played a Bodhran (Irish drum) for this one. I posted something on my other blog here if you’d like to know more.
After the concert, we headed back to our B and B, we were all hungry, so we raided the frig, ended up visiting until almost midnight, drinking chocolate milk, eating freezer pops , laughing and swapping stories.
The next morning after breakfast, we turned the camcorder back on and did a one hr interview for a compilation DVD . Most of you regular readers already know about the concert series..but just in case you don’t…We’re co-hosting (7) concerts this year with Camp Courageous, the first concert was May30th and the last one will be November 28th with Johnsmith. Each of the artists are masters at what they do. All of the concerts are in one of two barns, either the Sill Barn @ Camp Courageous, or at our place in a 100 yr old post and beam barn. The acoustics rock, so does the atmosphere. A local public access tv station has agreed to create a “behind the music” dvd w/ highlights of each concert and one on one interviews of each artist, which I can’t wait to see.
Here’s a picture of Rich and Jacquie doing their version of American Gothic in front of our house after breakfast:
Our next Concert is July 18th featuring Gayla Drake Paul. Here’s a little bleep about her I grabbed off her website:
www.digitaldreamdoor.com, ranks Gayla as one of the top 100 acoustic guitarists on the planet, and also recommends her solo guitar CD in their top 10 Suggested Listening for Acoustic Guitar, and recently chose Broken Blues as one of the top 100 acoustic CDs of all time).A rarity beyond her achievements as an instrumentalist, she is also regarded as one of the finest songwriters of her generation, with an intimate and evocative voice. She is a frequent contributor to the fastest growing guitar magazine in the country, Premier Guitar.
All of this fun and excitement happening in 2009 because my wife saw a notice in the paper last Winter for a grant that we applied for to help underwrite these concerts.
If you love great live music in a unique setting, you owe it to yourself to check out one of these events. If you time it right, you might even get to stay in our B and B and get to know these artists with us…just a thought.
On a completely unrelated note I’m going to leave you with this clip from utube- I’d love to have this kid play @ one of our concerts:
As always, thanks for reading “my stuff”- drop me a note and let me know what you think. DM
I love the American Gothic cover!! That is hilarious!