As indicated earlier, I spent the weekend “on the road” as a working musician, playing a couple of shows with The Blibbering Humdingers down south, one our first online streaming “show” (really, we pointed a camera at our practice session, on the couch at Humdinger Central, but people watched and interacted and it was fun – if so many of our musical friends can make Concert Window a viable business model for online shows, we can dip our toes in), and second was a benefit show put on by the Triangle Area Pagan Alliance at Arcana my new favorite drinking establishment in Durham NC. It’s a great room, with all kinds of character. Just check out this shot from the stage area during sound-check before all the fools and fairies started flowing down the stairs of this awesome basement bar:

Our set went pretty well, all told – the sound did some funny things, as sound tends to do, and being a “bar show”, we were kind of there filling out the background tapestry of the entire event – we closed out the live performance part of the evening along with Burns and a talented bellydancer whose name I never caught, before the dance party started, but we played well, the folks paying attention really dug us, nobody complained, and we debuted a couple of our new tunes (one of which I only really learned a few hours prior) to great acclaim (at least in our own minds). The folks at TAPA posted a bunch of shots of the evening on their social media feeds, one of which I’m borrowing to post below:

Pretty clear this was our opening number, as indicated by the house elf head.

Sunday, before I hit the road back up north (where I had a rather unpleasant encounter with MTO food from Sheetz…just say no, people), we spent some time working through new tunes, including laying down a few tracks for the “Trolley Witch Blues”, which sounds a lot better with my friends playing on it and singing that it ever did in my head when I wrote it. I mostly just dig the fact that they thought my little idea from the most interesting scene in Cursed Child was good enough for the band to do. Makes me feel like I might be kind of good at this thing.

So, that was the weekend. Hope you had a good time with whatever you did!