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It's such a crazy week that I omitted an announcement about tonights really promising show at Bacchanal Wine in the Bywater. Great food too.
Showtime is 7:30-10:30p
Alex Mcmurray-gtr;vcls
Bill Malchow-keys; vcls
Kevin O'Day- drums
Jonathan Freilich-gtr;vcls
Kevin O'Day! That should be something!
Ecumenical music?
Come by Bacchanal tonight, 7:30-10:30pm to check out a duo show with Helen Gillet. There will be improvisations, French music, other types of songs, Helen's solo pyrotechnics. It's a revisit of the old Monday night weekly .
Bacchanal is located at 600 Poland Ave in Bywater, New Orleans
I return to Bacchanal, this Monday 7/8 at 7:30pm for an evening of musical delights with my old friend
Helen Gillet. Come out...food, wine, contemporary local music.
This is being written from Holbrooke, AZ, which is really no place to be after New Orleans but we have to go through nowhere try to get somewhere, eh? or is it like Sun Ra said?- "If we came from nowhere here, why can't we go somewhere there?"
It's impossible to wrap up such a great Summer spent back home. I was so glad to hang and play with all my artist friends and partners (and non-affiliated), new and old:
James Singleton, Jeff Albert, Doug Garrison, Joe Cabral, Alex Mcmurray, Luke Allen, Rod Hodges, Helen Gillet, Aurora Nealand, Anthony Cuccia, Kourtney Keller, Goat and Angela, Mike Dillon, Carl LeBlanc, Cousin Dmitri, Michael Dominici, Sue Zemanick, Martin Krusche, Zack Smith, Chris Lane, Jeff Rains, Ben Ellman, Stanton Moore, Mark Bingham, King James and the Special Men, Scott Aiges, Adam Shipley, Matt Goldman, David Foster, Dr. Eric Whitfield, Derrick Freeman, Doug Belote, Chris Kohl, Jimbo Walsh, Dave Capello, Ray Moore, Johnny Vidacovich, Kate Mcnee, Tom McDermott, washboard Chaz, Andrew Wolf, Derek Douget, Michael Skinkus, Cassandra Faulconer, Marcello Bennetti, Brian Coogan, Bill Malchow, Dan Oestreicher, Tim Green, Rick Trolsen, Oliver Manhattan, Joan Long, John Swenson, Davis Rogan, Dave Bandrewski, David Rebeck...(I can't list everybody, dammit! Don't feel excluded!)
And, all the others who helped out and kept me on gigs from days of old...like the folks out at Bacchanal giving me my old Monday weekly back for the summer.
Thankfully, a good deal of "the best minds of my generation" haven't "been destroyed by madness" and aren't "starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the Negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix." Sometimes, though, it's been closer to that than you'd think.
New Orleans seems to be undergoing some severe personality alterations as a vast new wave of gentrification takes hold. Everyone is aware of the pros and cons but in New Orleans, if history is a guide, "improvements" usually entail vast cultural loss. It's still got a shocking music scene- let's hope it doesn't keep devolving into tourist music, where the payoffs are temporarily attractive enough that even the artists agree to lose their personality!
On the other hand some things seem to be thriving in mysterious directions; I can't wait to get back.
Los Angeles will just never understand its relative trailing position in the civilization racket.
The Circle Bar has had their music licensing called into question and is currently not having live music. So, unfortunately, this Sunday's show with the Jackals is cancelled. However, there will be an extravaganza and Jam Session with a great number of special guests on Monday night at the Bacchanal at 8pm. Here is the flyer by Joe Cabral. Can you identify that sax giant?
joe cabral
doug garrison
marcello bennetti
jimbo walsh
Coming into my last three scheduled shows before heading out for quite a while. It would be great to see you out there. We guarantee the music whimsy, fun, and for those of you still hung up on the myth of respectability, standards!
Tonight (July 30)- at Bacchanal (8-10:30pm) with Marcello Bennetti-drums and Jimbo Walsh-bass.
Thursday August 2nd- at The Circle Bar (10-30pm) with The Jackals
Monday August 6th- at Bacchanal (8pm) with Doug Garrison-drums
Anthony Cuccia- percussion
Brad Walker- sax
Casandra Faulconer-bass
I don't think that Cass and I have played together since the days of Poor Man's Speedball. Come take a look!
Bachanal 8pm.Food from Chef Joaquin and great wine.
Playing at Bacchanal tomorrow (Monday) night at 7:30 pm. Stellar lineup, why would you miss it??
James Singleton- bass
Rick Trolsen- Trombone (pictured)
Doug Garrison- drums
Jonathan Freilich- guitar
This Monday for my weekly Bacchanal show I will be playing with cellist, Helen Gillet. Just the two of us. Expect French music, improvisations, Rock 'n' roll flares, Baroque hauntings, jazz flecks, and Rococo rescue. Also, there will be the great food and wine that Bacchanal offers. The whole thing kicks off at 7:30pm.
A very happy return to a weekly gig at The Bacchanal Wine Bar in New Orleans. The fun kicks off tomorrow, Monday June 11 at 6pm, with The Tom Paines: Alex Mcmurray- guitar, vocals; Jonathan Freilich- guitar, vocals.
The music is different each week and will feature all of my groups and associations and occasionally something completely new. The concerts will go on until mid-August.
The food and wine is also outstanding.
This was a nice piece in that it feels really good because more than anything I have wished to be a contributor to this city that has my heart, New Orleans. No doubt, it is a drop in a vast ocean but it feels good that my efforts have been recognized. I hope to come back and be able to give more. More on that later...
Meantime...The Vinyl District
The first is July18th at Bacchanal, New Orleans. Rocksteady. Yes, Jeffrey Clemens is coming in for these.