welcoming the new year

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We’re resting up for gigs to wrap up 2023 and welcome 2024!

Especially exciting is our late-night favorite, the Lighthouse Lounge on Friday, Dec. 29th, 9-midnight ($5 cover, 21+). We’re coming out of hibernation and vacations to celebrate pre New Years celebration. Honestly, we’re not sure how polished and rehearsed we’ll be, but we’ll dust off stuff new and old and have a good time and hope that you cheer for all the notes. Enjoy the tater tots, good drinks, and lovely company all around.

And in January:

  • A return to the Grand America Lobby Lounge, Friday, Jan. 5th, 7-10p, our favorite upscale jazz lounge.
  • Our early-evening favorite, the Gandy Dancer, Saturday Jan. 20th, 6-8p.

We’ll update the calendar with more and highlight stuff as we get closer. For now, here’s the latest mix Adam’s been playing with, a celebration of new year’s recorded back at our first show at the Gandy Dancer in January of 2023. If we ever have a holiday album, this will be our deep cut.

happy EPiversary!

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It was a year ago today that we released our live EP, so to celebrate we’ve posted it on Bandcamp:

You can also find this and our original studio recording on our music page.

Bandcamp allows for downloads and proceeds that go back to the performers. In case you’re curious, we really do love it when you stream music on all the platforms because that’s what we want to share with you, but the musicians make only fractions of a cent on each one of your plays. As a band, we earn only a few dollars a year from streaming; but, hiring us for a party or coming to a live performance or buying a download or CD supports musicians of all stripes. The $5 cover you pay at Lighthouse or the tip you toss into the jar or even the download on Bandcamp goes back into our account to buy a cable or a cymbal or a microphone.

thanksgiving break

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We just had 3 gigs over 3 weekends, a concentrated calendar for us, and now we have a break to work on a glimmer of a project we’ve had in mind, a few rehearsals, maybe coil some cables properly. We get to go out on a band-date tonight and enjoy Postmodern Jukebox. They didn’t ask us to open for them, which is just as well because we can just enjoy the show from the balcony this way.

We don’t have anything public on our calendar until December 29th, a return to Lighthouse Lounge, followed by another return to the Grand America in January and a series of monthly gigs at Gandy Dancer again in January, February, and March. We’ll put out reminders of these and anything else that gets scheduled.

For now, here’s a quick sample of what it sounded like at Grand America last week. We just worked this one up:

Grateful and celebratory holidays to everyone! We’ll see you out on the scene soon.

return to grand

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Three weekends, three big outings.

We’re back at Grand America Lobby Lounge on Friday night (Nov. 10) from 7-10PM. We really felt the groove there last time, so join us on a comfy couch with a fancy drink and enjoy a few minutes or a few hours.

We keep it classy at the Lounge, digging deeper into the jazz standards … until we don’t. If someone calls out for our cover of No Scrubs by TLC, who are we to deny you?

gandy dancing

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We didn’t realize just how long it’s been until we went back to our gig calendar, but we’re finally returning to the Gandy Dancer this Saturday, November 4th from 6:00 to 8:00pm. So many of our gigs are in dark places after hours with cover charges and age restrictions, but at the Gandy we are hosted on a stage while it’s still light out, and no one has to be out past bedtime. Also, this place is filled with joy, a rotating menu of soups and sandwiches, great ice cream, AND warm welcoming of all ages. We love the support of local musicians at Gandy Dancer and we’re excited to be back. Finally! See you there!