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Pegwarmers (the film & the party) · 11 March 09
In conjunction with the Edmonton premiere of the documentary “Pegwarmers“ (for which I wrote and performed the theme song), I will be hosting the official “Pegwarmers Afterparty” @ The Brixx Bar and Grill, Saturday March 28th.
The Brixx Bar and Grill is located at 10030-102 Street, just a short walk from the Stanley Milner Library Theatre (where the screening is starting at 3:00pm). I will play a set at about 6:00pm~ish.
The best part is that the afterparty is going to be in support of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada. Admission to the afterparty is a mere $5.00, and all proceeds will be going directly to the Society.
I invite everyone to come out and see the film and then listen to some music, enjoy a tasty beverage and a snack, and most importantly help support a very worthy cause.
Oh yeah, by the way, I have a fractured left wrist so James Murdoch will be playing guitar and Shantel Koenig will be playing bass. I am going to try to play accordion (with a gutter splint on), but no promises. It is going to be… um, different!
I just received my musicians broadcast royalty statement (from SOCAN) and man-oh-man am I international! Way more international that I ever thought! I made $2.33 from Romania, $0.33 from Norway, $1.98 from Sweden, $0.01 from Chile, $1.32 from England and $0.19 from Malaysia!
I also got an email from 4 people in Germany who would like me to send them “4 handwritten pictures”. How awesome is that? Pretty awesome, that is how awesome. I have to hustle to get some 8X10s printed, but it is well worth it!
I may not be getting rich from being international but I am having fun. I almost feel like a rock star again… almost.
My cousin Erin Moffatt is enrolled in the Design and Motion Image class at Grant MacEwan College and I was lucky enough to be chosen to be the subject of one of her class projects. It is a video for a song Charles Wood and I wrote called The Devil Went Down East Hastings.
It is my biggest seller on iTunes and soon to be my most viewed on YouTube! Woohoo! Thanks Erin!
I played Glockenspiel at the Wendy McNeill show last night. It was a hoot! I have never played Glock before and gotta say – it is pretty fun! I had pretty easy and well written parts to play (only 5 or 6 notes in all) so that probably made it more fun and less stressful.
Wendy sure does put on a good show. She had the audience eating out of the palm of her accordion-ed hand. I love seeing performers like that. I find it very encouraging as both a musician and a music lover.
I have a show this Friday with a cover band Paul Bellows, James Murdoch, Terry Palmer and I threw together. It will be fun… it won’t be pretty but it will be fun. Then I have show at The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse (Edmonton AB). I hope to have a (small) handful of new material for that night, so make sure you bring your listening ears. Oh yeah, but no Glockenspiel. That was a one time thing. Only for Wendy do I play Glock.
New York City comprises five boroughs, each of which is coterminous with a county: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. With over 8.2 million residents within an area of 830 km², New York City is the second most densely populated city in the United States… and that is where I will be for the next 11 days.
If I make it out alive, I will see you on December 1st at Heather Hutchison‘s cd release party.
Good old Neil McDonald called Paul the other day and asked him if he could cover his show on Thursday night at Ceili’s. Paulsaid that he could not because he is going to see Crowded House tonight (which is coincidently where Neil is also going to be). I happened to be sitting at my desk behind Paul when Neil called…
Long story short – I am playing at Ceili’s tonight! Come on down and listen to me struggle through 3 sets of material I can barely remember! It is going to be fun.
And if you are driving there, maybe you could give me a ride. My car is in the shop and I have a guitar and amp to carry.
Saturday morning Paul and I drove to Saskatoon Saskatchewan (after a hearty breakfast at the one and only Zuppa Cafe) to play a rock show at one of our mutually favourite Canadian venues – Lydia’s Pub. I am happy to report that the party-people of Saskatoon did not let us down. Two fine young fellas even bought us a beer and a shot before they knew we were in the band! How nice is that?
My favourite part of the show was when some girls near the front were kind of freaking-out about how pretty my accordion was. Then after the very next song the boys they were with seemed to be equally as excited about my Nike sport socks… so much so that Paul dedicated a song to my socks. Yeah… it was THAT kind of show.
I guess we were partly to blame for the craziness – many times during the show I was playing my accordion while Paul played his (flying-v-ish) Gibson Explorer. The slightly ironic combination did not go unnoticed. Yeah, it was also THAT kind of show… and by “THAT“ I mean “nerdy”.
So, we finished up the bed-tracks for Heather Hutchison’s new full length (as yet untitled) cd today over at Sound Extractor studio. It has been an emotional and technical roller coaster so far. We have recorded Bass, Drums and Guitars over at Sound Extractor, Viola over at The Norwood Studio and Piano over at Beatice’s house (Heather’s neighbour with a gorgeous grand). We have used Cubase, Pro-Tools and Audacity and lots (too many to list here) of microphones.
Everything sounds great and we hopefully will be done piano and moving on to vocals by the end of the week. Fingers are crossed and the AFA is breathing down our necks! Not literally… though that might be pleasant…???
Word on the street is that the Sidetrack Cafe closed down yesterday. This time likely for good.
If you visit www.sidetrackcafe.com it is not entirely evident or obvious that they are closed, aside from the entire entertainment calendar having been wiped clean.
I have to admit to being more sentimentally sad about the old location closing down than I am at this incarnation going out of business (I had a serious soft spot for the old locale after going/playing there for 20-ish years) but it is still a drag. I am mostly concerned for all my friends who worked there. I know they will all land on their feat (they are all clever, able folks) but it is no fun looking for work – especially on such short notice.
In conjunction with the Edmonton premiere of the documentary “Pegwarmers“ (for which I wrote and performed the theme song), I will be hosting the official “Pegwarmers Afterparty” @ The Brixx Bar and Grill, Saturday March 28th.
