Lots of music
View from stage at the Doug Fir
It’s been quite a busy week with music. The Dirty Mittens show at the Doug Fir went very well- we filled up the club on a Wednesday night and I got to see first hand what the kids mean when they talk about a ‘dance party.’ There was lots of crowd dancing during our set, culminating with audience members crowding on stage for the last song and the encore. One of the members of the second band, Princeton (from LA) busted me reading my Warren Buffet biography before sound check. It turned out that he had majored in economics and was clearly quite excited to have an audience as he expounded on Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman.
The scene at the beginning of the PCS gig
After two hurried rehearsals, Jim Brunberg, Jonathan Newsome, and myself played our first of a month’s worth of Saturday evening gigs in the lobby of the Portland Center Stage theater. We played two sets between the matinee and the evening performances of Snow Falling On Cedars, with material comprised of old standards and some original pop songs. It is a fun group consisting of Jim and Jonathan trading off on bass, guitar, and vocals and me playing Wurlitzer, trumpet, and some brushes-on-cardboard box percussion. At the beginning of the gig, the caverous lobby was mostly empty and we felt quite self conscious. By the end, however, there were several hundred people knocking back glasses of wine before entering the evening show.
