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Friday, May 2
Music In The Air
Warm Weather Gigs
Spring and summer hold forth the promise of many gigs. Check this space for news of The Ivory Bills (electric mud), and The Lonesome Sparrows (acoustic spring-water) playing in and around New Haven Town.
Saturday, May 10
The Ivory Bills & The Big Fat Combo
where else but. . . cafe nine
Tag Team Rock and Roll Returns.
The Ivories and BFC will each play two sets of original (and extreme high-Q) R&R, and the night will conclude with an unrehearsed jam with both bands mixing and mingling.
Local music lovers in-the-know are already anticipating guitar players Cary Pollick of BFC and John L. of the Ivories sharing the same stage. Mmmm. . . good.
Saturday, May 17
The Lonesome Sparrows
City Seed @ Wooster Square, New Haven
Johnny Memphis and I are proud to kick off The City Seed Farm Market season at Wooster Square. The Market opens at 9 A.M. and Johnny and I play from 11 A.M. to 1 P.M.
Even tho' these intrepid local foodsters have been congregating once a month this winter, this is the official kick-off of what we might call "the nice weather season," when guitar players' fingers don't freeze, and the Market goes back on its once-a-week schedule.
Eat The Horizon.
Saturday, May 24
The Lonesome Sparrows opening for Joe Flood & Band
The Buttonwood Tree, Main St. Middletown. 8:00 p.m.
Joe Flood is an under-appreciated Connecticut songwriter/performer who has worked in the past with the likes of Doc Pomus, Rick Danko & Levon Helm, Joan Osborne and Laura Cantrell.
Joe will be playing a rare band show, all acoustic, with an international cast of former busking mates. Ron Sunshine, Mark Herschler, and Andres Villami have, in various guises, played the major capitols of Europe and The New World. They have delighted and charmed crowned heads, beggars, thieves, prostitutes, and businessmen.
Johnny Memphis & I will open with an acoustic set of my own beautiful songs.
Fiddles, guitars, mandolins, double-bass, and great songwriting and performance skills on display!
Thanks for stopping in.
Writing and singing songs is my passion. This has led me to pursue a life of performances and recordings. Big thanks to Nancy Lee.
It’s all here on the site. I hope you’ll take some time to look, listen, and buy. Send me an e-mail. Check out a show sometime if you’re in or around my hometown, New Haven, CT, New England, USA.
It's The Economy, Stupid!
Song of the Month!
Hamlet Blues
Posted: May 5, 2008
This is first for SOTM; a brand new tune. It was recently recorded by The Ivory Bills, and will be part a summer release.
It's dedicated to the late Ed Feidner (1931-2008) a mentor to hundreds and hundreds of theater students, including this one, at The University of Vermont. He was a lover of Shakespeare and creative quirkiness.
What exactly does a musician look like?
Posted: November 26, 2007
The Lonesome Sparrows @ The Space
Sharon Bass, The owner/operator of The Hamden Daily News, was nice enough to visit The Space for a recent Lonesome Sparrows acoustic show. She wrote a nice article for her web paper and used her cellphone to create stunning visuals of the all-year-round xmas lights at The Space, Check it out. If you're interested in Things Hamden, you should bookmark her site.