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 :)

Thanks y’all for coming out to one or more of our performances. And especially for coming to whirligig’s RL birthday celebration.

The fun began on Friday evening at the Gaslight at 6 PM SL (SL is the same as Pacific TIme), there were so many friends and new folks there. You are all really great folks.

Saturday we played first at the Cookie Farm at 5 PM SL, our first appearance there since October. This was our first regular gig in SL and we do enjoy playing there. Thinkerer Melville has alway been so helpful to us, and we appreciate the opportunity to play there as well.

Late on Saturday we played at Woodstock, around 11 PM SL time, we had lots of folks come to hear us, even met some of the hobos that we do not know (since we are never up that late).

Then on Sunday Arman Finesmith played for whirligig’s Birthday celebration at 6 PM SL in Cair Paravel. We played lots of the songs we really like. Arman is such a fine musician that he is just a joy to listen to. If you haven’t heard him, he keeps a list of his next performances in his profile. Check it out, you will love it.

The celebration for whirl continues tonight, when Blindboink Parham comes to Cair Paravel to play for whirl’s birthday as well, because of the holiday Blindboink could not come on Sunday, and I am glad we were able to get him booked, as he is another very fine musician. So come out tonight (12/1/09) at 6 PM SL to Cair Paravel.

-bart

Here’s some recent pics, I’m woefully behind on posting from recent gigs! We’ve been busy playing at Inga’s store, doing a weekly gig at the Gaslight (thanks to theDove Rhode, who is a real sweetie!), and we had a great time at the Green Lantern Bayou party this weekend…the GL know how to have fun, check out the great swamp build they put together.

We also recently played at a very hobo-worthy club called the Burned Down Cafe, which actually approximates a crazy RL build on a lake in Wisconsin. Awesome, awesome place! Run by a really great guy named doctor Shackleton, who also runs the RL club. We’re hoping to play there more, and I’ll go take some pics of it soon just to post here because the build is so cool :)

We played 4 gigs and 5 hours this weekend. It made me hungry!

Hoboween!

Wow a great weekend. Hoboween on Hobo Island Friday, Saturday and Sunday, a three day party that went off very well and was lots of fun, thanks to a great build from Aitolda Cooljoke and much organization from Bonehead Goalpost the hobo queen and her assorted hobo minions. There were lots of great musicians including Groucho and Blindboink, and Lauren did a show too (in an exquisite skull dress). Check out our Flickr page widget below for pics and I’m going to stick some slideshows here. We played Saturday night. There were about 50 hobos in the sim at the height of things and it was a great crowd. We had a blast. We even got to judge the costume contest! Blindboink closed out the night…I think he was a bit taken aback by the crowd of crazies, but he’s crazy himself so he got into it and did great.

Sunday we played at fellow hobo Ladonna’s club…ClubStudio 3, I think I have that name right. A cool little place in I believe a Dutch? sim? Ladonna is always great to play for, so sweet and makes everyone feel at home. Nice little club, I hope she’ll have us back!

Thanks to Nolan Finney, Inga Wind and Riddleray Rembrandt for the pics :)

We played at SL’s Burning Life 2009 yesterday on the center stage (somehow I think Lauren had something to do with that, if so, thank you Lauren!) It is a pretty interesting and polished build this year, and as always, lagtastic. We had a pretty good crowd and only chased off a few of them so thanks to those who stayed and hung out with us, it was fun! Not to mention a challenge with lag, playing at the intersection of 4 sims, and trying to take photos when everyone and everything was blurry. Thanks to Nolan for his patience in taking these pictures :) Thank you to Nolan, Inga, Derek, Lauren, Spanky, Chili, Gumby, and everyone that was there.

I’m hoping now that the performances and initial rush for BL are over maybe we can go back and check out the great builds…there are some especially creative and fancy ones this year. We couldn’t stay for any of the ‘burning’ parties. I’m still pouting about that :)