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Sara and I are excited to host musical get-togethers chez nous on the first, middle, and last Sundays of May, 5/1, 5/15, and 5/29. The first, 5/1, is our maiden voyage and an opportunity to try out playing in the La Rochelle courtyard if weather's clement. The 5/15 jam will be a birthday bonanza, since so many beloved family and friends have birthdays on or near that date! 5/29 is a day before Memorial Day and will hopefully help usher in the summer.
Timing - On each of these Sundays, we propose getting set up and warming up from 3:30-4:30pm in our apartment, and then (weather permitting) heading to the courtyard to see if we can jam there for two or three hours, punctuated with breaks for shoveling mass quantities of tasty food (see below) and ample beverages. I've reserved the conference room adjacent to the courtyard for us so that we can huddle there and also store mass quantities of food, drink, and instrument cases there.
Participants - We hope to entice our core group plus Nick, Paul Malta, and possibly some local folks, including neighbors in our building who see our gentle note about the jam(s) on the building's electronic bulletin board. In addition, I'm going to invite Stephen, the very nice and very good mandolin player John and I met at the Paddy's slow jam last week. He lives in the Bronx and probably would be much more likely to come if we could offer him a lift, so Sara and I will look into where he lives and whether it's feasible to pick him up. Any others we should invite? Please feel free to do so on your own, or let me know and I'll include them in future drivel.
Music - Please help build the "repertoire" page of the blog so we can learn and practice songs and maybe even easily look them up while we jam if needed.
Food & Drink - Frozen octopus is $3.99 at the fish market two blocks from us. There are 4 gas grills in the La Rochelle courtyard. We have two flat metal BBQ griddles. To me, this means we will at least barbecue octopus, and plenty of it, which I would love. We will supplement this with ample drink and a whole lot of other comestible goodies to bribe the community into embracing our musical arrival in the neighborhood.
As you see, this blog is a great drivel outlet. More to come!!!
XoxO,
T
