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Jan-U-Wary 10, 2010 It’s been quite some time since I played guitar and sang in a concert setting. Bars-a-plenty, restaurants galore, the occasional summer patio, the decks of a few tropical sailing yachts (oooops, I guess I was dreaming again), and a genuine back-country General Store have been my primary venues of late. Of course there’s the countless hours playing in my studio to the select and delightfully devoted audience of Ms. Chevy la Chat and me, myself and I - together we comprise a ruthless and critical cadre of curmudgeons. To illustrate her disapproval of a particular musical selection, Ms. Chevy frequently and unceremoniously will turn her back on me and vomit her most recent meal upon the carpet. Most of my audiences have a bit more class, however. Anyway, last July when I was asked by Sir Tom Ingersoll – he of the “Sheffield (MA) Folk Music & Geographic Society” and successor to the late Sir Harry Chestwig - to play for one of their monthly acoustic music concerts at the venerable Dewey Hall, he didn’t have to ask “Dewey or don’t he?” I immediately agreed and set about choosing a performance date. I wouldn’t have naturally gravitated towards the February 6, 2010 date for my concert. By February, winter’s cold and gray darkness has driven me right to the edge of a bitterly icy Purgatory, leaving me of the mind that should I somehow make it through just this one, dastardly month I’ll probably live for at least another year. But February was the first available date Sir Tom had, and as I plan to be in the Caribbean for March and afterwards will catch up with Miss Mary in Switzerland and Italy in April. That left May - and, well, that was just too far away to tell. So, Feb-U-Wary it shall be! I decided that a gala concert in February would likely inspire me to keep plugging along until spring. So won't you come to my first "Feb-U-Wary Post-Groundhog, Pre-Valentine’s Day Hoopla” featuring Me and My Fingers doing fantastic and frivolous things to assorted guitars and a banjo. There will be some harmonicas tootled and songs slung and, after a while, I’ll be joined on stage by the one and only Miss Mary (with her big steel can, flutes and mandolin) and the Samster with a few of his drummy things which he will share with us all. I may even ask some of you to pick up some percussion, find the funk and join in the junkanoo!  The Dewey Hall has marvelous acoustics and there will be candlelit tables creating a wonderous atmosphere. It will make you think of a 12th century Gothic mead-hall, complete with wenches, hearty ale, jesters, absinthe and. . .well, perhaps not all that. But, there will be delicious snacky things to eat and delightfully wet things to drink. Dewey Memorial Hall is to be found on Rt. 7, smack-dab in the middle part of metropolitan Sheffield, MA. Doors open @ 7PM and the show starts around 7:30. This is, for the most part, a family-friendly show. There is a suggested donation of $10, but if you will put a tuppence in the poor man’s hat, he’ll find you a seat. Howdy David..hope all is well! ric 1/12/2010  | |||||
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