Checked out Mike Daley and Kevin Breit at Castro's and that was a beautiful afternoon...except at one point when I finally got a chance to say hi to Mike Daley and he said "I've been meaning to talk to you - you’ve got the listings wrong in your Newsletter. Ooops....
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
The Orange Devils with Colleen Allen
Got out to see the Orange Devils (17-piece band) at Monarch’s Tavern where they play the second Monday of every month. I ran into some old friends, including Colleen Allen and it was so great to see her and she was playing great - and that big band is so tight. There's nothing like sitting in front of a big band when they hit it - you feel the air move!
Bandleader Martin Loomer pointed out a young lady in the audience called Trombone Charlotte. She was about to appear in the Women's Blues Revue and we had been doing some promotion in the MapleBlues newsletter and so when she came by my table I said, "How are you? You don’t know me, but that I am the editor of MapleBlues and you were my cover girl this month". She says, "Yeah, why you didn’t you use any of the photos that I sent you?" I asked her if it was an old photo that I used and she said, "I was 19 years old in that picture!" Oh well...She did say later that she appreciated the coverage (and even an old photo is good publicity).