A small glimpse of a wonderful experience. The staff and the audience treated us so well. If our lives revolved around performing at receptive, enthusiastic, encouraging venues with audiences to match, it would be a paradise for us. May our future contain more and more Read More …
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Pete’s Candy Store – Week #7
Alright … Week Seven. I often think about promotions and how it actually works. At first I started posting listings on facebook about the Pete’s gigs and I don’t think it made any difference. Our first show was ok attenended. Luckily its a pretty small Read More …
Pete’s Candy Store – Week #6
I know. Better late than never. Here’s the clip from our 6th installment at Pete’s Candy Store. The theme for the night was to feature good friend and fellow member of the Cangelosi Cards back in the day, Miguel Wiseman on harmonicas. This tune, sadly, Read More …
Happy Birthday etc…
Been having that problem again where I’d rather be living my life than writing about it. As such, I’ve fallen a bit behind in the blogging. So much has happened. I haven’t even posted last week’s Pete’s Candy Store show and here it is Monday Read More …
Pete’s Candy Store – Week #4
Another splendid and different week at Pete’s Candy Store. Each one is just jammed packed with lessons as performers. Here’s the inside scoop of some major points. 1) Microphone placement is hard! We tried to put Stefan in the back so he wouldn’t peak out Read More …
Pete’s Candy Store – Week #2
Week number two at Pete’s Candy Store in our nine week bid to record a live record. We all felt more relaxed and a little more comfortable with the sound. There were more people this time as well. Just about full. Hopefully it will continue Read More …
Christmas in July
July 5th in New York is a little like Christmas day except instead of everyone being at home with their families, they are in bed nursing their hangovers. Christmas cold keeps everyone home to snuggle and yesterdays glaring, beating sunshine kept headaches and fear of Read More …
New Tin Pan Photos
In May, we did a photo shoot with the very stylish Bill Phelps at the restaurant he helped design, Café Moto. I’ve always liked Bill’s Photos. They are very evocative and dreamy, and kind of moody. They seem to reflect and embrace deterioration and entropy Read More …
Joe’s Pub – We’ve Finally Gotten Started
I spoke with Clifton yesterday about the Joe’s Pub show that we did on Sunday night and his quote was, “We’ve finally gotten started.” It may take some time before we’re playing a majority of rooms that are as wonderful and as perfect for us Read More …
Guggengeim Celebrates
On Tuesday of this week we performed at the Guggenheim for the second time. It was a wonderful experience. They were celebrating their 50th anniversary and were hosting the 5th Avenue Museum Mile Festival. They had us set up just outside the museum underneath that Read More …