July is gonna be a busy month for gigging out.<\/p>\n
Haven Street, the jazz group is playing at:<\/p>\n
Thursday July 18 – The Barn at Quaker Hill Country Club, Pawling<\/p>\n
I must say the last few jazz gigs have been really good and they keep getting better. My new song Wolf Whisper is coming along, and Gary brought in a really cool new song last week. The venues and audiences have been really warm and receptive too.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the rock group G-Force has three gigs coming up:<\/p>\n
Saturday July 13 – Barney McNabbs, Tucakahoe
\nFriday Jul 19 – Boulevard Bar, Queens
\nSaturday Jul 27 – Man Overboard, City Island<\/p>\n
Barney Mcnabbs is a place we know and is fun to play. For this gig we’re having my friend Steve sit in on drums since our regular drummer can’t make it. For the gig in Queens we have Jay sitting in on bass since our regular bassist Ken can’t make it. Steve and Jay are both excellent musicians. For Man Overboard we’re back to our regular line up. We played that place a while back and they liked us even thought that gig we weren’t at our our best musically, with two sub players and a brand new drummer.<\/p>\n
I’m hoping for some good gigs; it’ll give us all a positive energy boost. Our last few gigs have been spotty, with a couple rained out and a couple playing to mostly empty rooms, the aforementioned disaster, and a couple decent gigs including the last one at Victors, which is one of our favorite places to play and always has a good crowd.<\/p>\n
Why aren’t we winning over crowds everywhere we go? That’s a good question. Having sub players slows down our ability to to work new songs into the set. Maybe our choice of material has something to do with it. It also hinders us in drilling down to focus and get the songs really tight. If you’re gonna do tunes everyone knows you really gotta kick ass at it. Ah well. Kenny and Vinny remain excellent and lift up the level of the whole thing.<\/p>\n
In any event we’ve been working hard and it’s bound to come together at some point. So as I say I’m hoping for some magic and it just might happen one of these nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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