Sweet Summer Nubben
It's been a great week of music and I have many friends and motivated listeners to thank!
Last Thusday, Erik, Brophy, and I cruised down to NYC to play a set at the Cutting Room, which by the way is owned by "Mr. Big". For those of you who don't know who the heck I'm refering to, Mr. Big is the ultimate love interest of Sarah Jessica Parker in "Sex and the City". If you've ever been to the Cutting Room and you know of this man, you'll be pleased, or sickend, to see that there are two rather very large portraits of Mr. Big on the walls of the joint. The unique setting also boasts my favorite arcade, a sitdown Gallaga machine - bringing back skills I acquired in the Golden Peak Ski Lodge. Anyway, The Cutting Room is a great intimate venue and the stage is perfect size. I think we played one of our best sets and it was fun to showcase some "classic" tunes from Outside, as well as several new songs that will be on the upcoming record. Much props to the huge Midd crew that was on hand to get crazy and hang out. This was the first show where fans courageously hopped on stage to display serious dance and singing skills...most likely alcohol induced but I strongly promote this anytime we are in the groove! All in all, it's always solid to be in the big apple and to play an awesome room like that for a great crowd.
Last Saturday I played at Club Passim's, "Campfire Festival" in Cambridge. The unique format for this weekend is named, "In the Roundtable", which slots four singer songwriter's (solo) on stage together and you each take turns playing four songs. The guys I played with were amazing, especially this cat Justin Jones - fantastico! He started his set by anouncing how hungover he was but that his drunk voice was rather good and raspy. He was correct. He floored everyone with his emotional performance and deep songwriting about drugs, love, and loss - the standard subjects of rock. Overall, it was cool to play solo and strip down the songs to their core. The great thing about the room is that everyone there was really eager to hear great music and their attentiveness to the songs made a truly strong connection between the performers and listeners. If you're around next year, be sure to check out this folk festival that boasts over 50 hours of music and over 100 performers.
Playing this Tuesday at Harper's Ferry in Boston and then I'm taking off the remainder of June to travel home to Denver and to start laying down tracks for a new album. I cannot wait to get back in the studio and to share these next batch of tunes with everyone....
Knowledge Gained:
I strongly suggest never doing a turnaround jumper trip to NYC from Boston. Four hours down, three hour show/hangtime, then another four hours back (around 3 AM) Great group effort by the three of us but certainly left a bad taste!
Cutting Room Set List:
Stone Side
Passing Time
All this rain
Sweet Thunder
So Lonely - cover
Trouble so
My Twilight
Waiting on my Soul
Bring you back
Coming Home
Slow Play
Cherry Cherry - cover
Club Passim Set:
Waiting on my soul
Windsor Gardens
Bring you back
Stone Side
Last Thusday, Erik, Brophy, and I cruised down to NYC to play a set at the Cutting Room, which by the way is owned by "Mr. Big". For those of you who don't know who the heck I'm refering to, Mr. Big is the ultimate love interest of Sarah Jessica Parker in "Sex and the City". If you've ever been to the Cutting Room and you know of this man, you'll be pleased, or sickend, to see that there are two rather very large portraits of Mr. Big on the walls of the joint. The unique setting also boasts my favorite arcade, a sitdown Gallaga machine - bringing back skills I acquired in the Golden Peak Ski Lodge. Anyway, The Cutting Room is a great intimate venue and the stage is perfect size. I think we played one of our best sets and it was fun to showcase some "classic" tunes from Outside, as well as several new songs that will be on the upcoming record. Much props to the huge Midd crew that was on hand to get crazy and hang out. This was the first show where fans courageously hopped on stage to display serious dance and singing skills...most likely alcohol induced but I strongly promote this anytime we are in the groove! All in all, it's always solid to be in the big apple and to play an awesome room like that for a great crowd.
Last Saturday I played at Club Passim's, "Campfire Festival" in Cambridge. The unique format for this weekend is named, "In the Roundtable", which slots four singer songwriter's (solo) on stage together and you each take turns playing four songs. The guys I played with were amazing, especially this cat Justin Jones - fantastico! He started his set by anouncing how hungover he was but that his drunk voice was rather good and raspy. He was correct. He floored everyone with his emotional performance and deep songwriting about drugs, love, and loss - the standard subjects of rock. Overall, it was cool to play solo and strip down the songs to their core. The great thing about the room is that everyone there was really eager to hear great music and their attentiveness to the songs made a truly strong connection between the performers and listeners. If you're around next year, be sure to check out this folk festival that boasts over 50 hours of music and over 100 performers.
Playing this Tuesday at Harper's Ferry in Boston and then I'm taking off the remainder of June to travel home to Denver and to start laying down tracks for a new album. I cannot wait to get back in the studio and to share these next batch of tunes with everyone....
Knowledge Gained:
I strongly suggest never doing a turnaround jumper trip to NYC from Boston. Four hours down, three hour show/hangtime, then another four hours back (around 3 AM) Great group effort by the three of us but certainly left a bad taste!
Cutting Room Set List:
Stone Side
Passing Time
All this rain
Sweet Thunder
So Lonely - cover
Trouble so
My Twilight
Waiting on my Soul
Bring you back
Coming Home
Slow Play
Cherry Cherry - cover
Club Passim Set:
Waiting on my soul
Windsor Gardens
Bring you back
Stone Side
2 Comments:
J.E. Borgan - Well, well...I just received the update from the KDS newsletter and think your music is Fantastic. I graduated from Kent in '97, Wendy Norman. Good friends with Shannon Galbreath. Lucky if you even knew me, but wanted to say that I am impressed with the tunes and would love to know when you are coming to California? I have been living in Southern Cali for 4yrs and currently in Chiropractic school. Let me know if the West Coast is in the future...possibly the Grove at Anaheim? or House of Blues? Let me know and I will surely check out the show. Good luck with everything.
Wendy
Wendy Norman
Littlegrln@aol.com
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