Category Archives: Bart Blog

Freight Train

Sent another set of files to Ben to mix for us, and again he came through and blew us both away. Thanks again, Ben

His website is here http://audioservices.benbrennan.net

Backwater Blues

Last night I sent a series of files up to Ben Brennan (Aitolda Cooljoke) to see what he could do with them, and he sent this back to me, well I’m blown away. Thanks Ben.

His website is here http://audioservices.benbrennan.net

Check out these cookies!

ZOMG look at these cookies made for us with edible SL pictures of us on them! They are wonderful thank you anonymous fan (wink)…I might even let Bart have some :)

Some new audio

Going to try and post some audio here :) Been awhile! We’re playing a lot still so check our schedule!

Take This Hammer

Take This Hammer by cruxwork

Fish and Bird

The Bird and the Whale by cruxwork

Midnight Special

The Midnight Special by cruxwork

Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down

Wish I Was in Heaven Sittin Down by cruxwork

update & schedule

Our buddy and video expert Geo put up some vid of last night’s show at Good Vibes, you can watch and listen here.

Having trouble keeping up! Here’s the next few days schedule:

tonight, Thurs. March 4: One Fine Day, 7 SL

Fri. March 5: Cosmic’s Nexus, 6 SL

Sat. March 6: Cookie Farm, 7 SL

Sun. March 7: 5 am w/ Ladonna’s friends @ Gronigen, 7 pm at Pannie’s

Some pics from Nolan, the Drunken Drow, which is a great elven club, and Cosmic’s Nexus, his brand new club and a great build by our friend Aitolda Cooljoke.

Schedule for this week

 

Last week we played in our pajamas! Bart loves the shoes.

Wednesday we play at what is pretty much our favorite gig, at Good Vibes Acoustic Lounge. Ziffy starts things off at 6:30 SL, then dual streams with Blindboink at 7. Don’t miss them! We play at 8, and our banjo demon buddy Cosmic at 9.

 

Thursday we play at One Fine Day, 7 SL. This is a neat little shopping area with some interesting musicians and nice people.

Friday, the grand opening of Cosmic’s Nexus…he’s made himself a little club, come check it out! We play at 7 and Cosmic follows at 8. Aitolda has made a really cool build worth seeing here.

Saturday we debut at noon at one of our favorite places the Drunken Drow, eep! Some of the best in SL play here and the people are great.

 

We play at Piers Paradise sometimes too...neat place hope they ask us back :)

 

Pics and upcoming schedule

Here’s some recent pictures, all from Nolan. Taken at Inga Wind Clothing (for Derek’s bday, yay!), Good Vibes, Cookie, and Piers Paradise.

We’ve been busy. Last night we played what’s becoming our usual Wednesday night gig at Good Vibes Lounge. WE LOVE IT THERE AND WE LOVE WEDNESDAYS. Pajoel and Seabreeze are so nice, it’s a great club, and the lineup on Wed. is amazing. Ziffy plays first by himself, then with Blindboink, we play, and Cosmic plays. The people who hang out there are great and the music is wonderful…we feel very fortunate to play there. Please consider coming out and hanging out, donate a few lindens to the club because Pajoel and Sea have made a very nice haven for musicians (they have some really great ones playing there!!), they are sweet as can be and the crowd is a great bunch.

Upcoming shows:

Thurs. 2/4, tonight: One Fine Day, 7 SL

Fri. 2/5, Moulin Rouge, 7 SL

Sat. 2/6, Benefit for 4 Bridges, 2 pm SL, Home Cooked Music, 7 SL

Sun. 2/7, Piers Paradise, 3 SL

Wed. 2/10, Good Vibes Lounge, 8 SL

Weekend Update

Whirl and I played our second performance at the Good Vibes Acoustic Lounge. Thank so much Seabreeze and Pajoel for letting us play there its alot of fun listening to all the great artists you have lined up for Weds. It all starts at 6:30 PM SL so dont miss out, come out this Weds you’re gonna love it.

Ziffy Zarf
Blindboink Paraham and Ziffy Zarf
Us
Cosmic Haystack

Friday we were supposed to play in Cair Paravel, but the I had a special meeting to attend so we did not play that evening

Saturday we played at the Cookie Farm, We have been working up Elizabeth Cotton’s Freight Train. I am playing it “Cotton Picking Style”
which I can do by myself, but its quite a different thing to perform. So we attempted it for the 2nd time. I think we will get it eventually :D

Sunday, I went around to various venues to listen to music. I spoke to a number of owners during the show, Meet Sienna Magic, Cancer Piers who both wanted us to play.

Whirl and I will be performing at the One Fine Day venue every Thursday evening at 7:00 PM. They have a lot of cool shops there so check’em out.

I put Whirl into a panic on Sunday when she got up from her Sunday nap she found that the Piers Paradise folks wanted us to play in an hour….After calming her down we played for them and will be appearing there a couple of Sundays in February (7th and 21st) at 3 PM SL.

p.s. No I was NOT awake. Hee. I don’t have any pics of us from Good Vibes or anyone else either, for that matter. My bad.  bart, remind me to take some more pics of blind and ziffy, only have a couple so I’m recycling pic here. As much time as we spend listening to those two nuts we should have more pics :)

What a week!

Inga Wind Clothing

It all began on Wednesday evening…Whirl and I went to see Ziffy and BlindBoink play at the Tuscan Sun, at a new club they just opened for acoustic performances. It’s really a nice place, and is run by two great people Seabreeze and Pajoel. So, Blind is on stage and he announces, hey you should book Whirl and Bart to play here…so almost immediately I get am IM from Pajoel and next thing I know we are scheduled to play the very next day on Thursday right after Senjata Whitt (Another really awesome musician).

So we head over on Thursday to play, next thing I know all of our friends are there, but also almost every musician that we know shows up. Well we are totally humbled. Thank you so much Blindboink and also Pajoel for letting us play at your wonderful club. We will be back there every Weds night following Blindboink and Ziffy.

Friday evening we normally play Cair Paravel, but this was a special day. Yes we know it would have been Elvis Preseley’s 75th birthday, but more importantly it was Derek Sienkowitz’s RL birthday and so we headed over to Inga Wind’s store to play.

It was here we learned with sadness that Inga’s father had passed away.

We played for about an hour to a small crowd, but a fun crowd

Saturday we play at Guthrie’s in the morning, the number of people was pretty good for us.

We also played on Saturday night at Cookie Farm, great turnout and we even got Whirl to sing a new song.

Thank’s to all of you who come out and support not just us, but all the musicians in Second Life. Its funny but true, the more there are of you…the happier it makes us feel and that translates to a better show..no kidding..you do make the difference :)

See you next week
Bart and Whirl

Catch Up Post!

Ok, I am shamefully behind in posting pics from the last week, I blame my dog, or something :)

Bart managed to get both Arman Finesmith and Blindboink Parham to play two separate parties in Cair for my birthday. And our great friends came for both. I have a great husband and great friends :)

Arman is just absolutely the best ragtime/early blues player you will hear in SL, and Blindboink is absolutely the best country blues/piedmont blues picker in SL…and both of them are tops at their game in RL too. Absolutely amazing! They did amazing shows as they always do. Both are such sweeties too!

We played the Woodstock sim, which is a great fun place, and played at our good friend Lauren’s place too…Lauren does the BEST comedy in SL.

Derek kidnapped Ziffy Zarf the other night and dragged him to Cair to play (it didn’t work Derek, he didn’t blame us lol). Ziffy is an amazing blues player who does guitar and the best harp you will hear in SL, for sure.  He’s just started playing in SL and we’re all just wondering what took him so long! Oh, and if you get Ziffy and Blind together, you’re guaranteed mischief and mayhem :)

We’ve had a great time the last couple of weeks, thank you all so much for the best birthday EVER :)