Technicolor Close Up

Technicolor Trailer Park at RRL

Showcase Elmira

Technicolor Sounds at RRL

Coming to RRL on two wheels

come one, come all -- it's free for you and Grandma.

Technicolor Trailer Park
This Friday- Oct. 12 @ RRL
7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Redneck glam rock? that's what they call it. here's a few more -- rootsy acoustic and very original anti-neo-alt-whatever? two guys and a girl, three singer-songwriters? guitar, mandolin, bass, melodica, funky garage-sale vintage keyboards and assorted props? improv stories with audience-contributed Mad Libs, all about a young misfit named Stanley? all that and more.
The most fearless band I know.

This kicks off a Friday music series at RRL.

Saturday is Valley Folk's season opener as well, with Adam Miller, autoharp virtuouso. There aren't many of those. Minnie Pearl? pu-leeze and how-dy. June Carter Cash? Love her, rest her soul, but hardly a prodigy. Reese Witherspoon? Zing go the strings of my heart, but she barely knows G, C and D.
There's an admission charge.

And next Friday (10-19), Catherine White will present "Showcase Elmira," with live music, food, spoken word, and performing drag queens! Also free and the showcase gives the public another chance to see the studio tour artists' work. And drag queens.

The very NEXT Friday, Oct. 26, is words by Charlie James and music by Jesse Bennett, who are equally entertaining offstage as on. A Molly Perry Production.

Nov. 1 (a Thursday) is a themed open mic: Labor Songs. Not just old Wobbly songs and field hollers, but those would be cool. Anything goes. Dan A. (which is me) has a clutch of work-related songs from the '80s and '90s. [I was going to do "She Works Hard (For the Money)" but the chords are eluding me.] There will be some other Likeminded Pinkos singing about the Big Boss Man, and a special surprise RRL guest performer.

That's just one little month.
Our humble brick hut is alive with cul-cha.

Please forward this notice to all possibly interested parties. Or invite the parties to our parties. Either way, let's have more parties.

Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton

may the tide

that is entering even now

the lip of our understanding

carry you out

beyond the face of fear

may you kiss

the wind then turn from it

certain that it will

love your back may you

open your eyes to water

water waving forever

and may you in your innocence

sail through this to that

Yoko Ono: About The IMAGINE PEACE TOWER.

She is just the best.

What I am up to.

So I just had to make an emergency stop at my parent's house in Horseheads so I could change my daughter's diaper. We were at staple's trying to make copies of the flier for the Charlie James poetry extravaganza. Olivia threw herself on the floor and screamed and all the old people in there were giving me dirty looks. Anyway, as far as making stuff goes, I am obsessed with Richard Simmons and seem to be theming everything around him. Perhaps I am losing my mind. Hope all is well with everybody ( p.s- I never posted to a blog before so forgive me).