This Sunday was the last rehearsal of a fantastic workshop. I realize that I haven't written much about the day to day of this workshop(getting married is a terrible blogging distraction). Nevertheless it's been one of the best. More importantly, it's been delightfully different in tone and style from past workshops. Once again Russell Thorpe stepped up in a major way and wrote 3 different tunes. Multi-resident John Chittum has finally wrote a piece for us and it doesn't suck. Brian Padavic and Leah Sproul Pulatie also brought in strong work and have performed amirably. Peter Lawless continues to be his opinionated and refreshing self. And we have three great newbies in Eric Chapman, Teri Quinn, and Mike Shanks. I want to thank Pat Conway for coming and giving us a fabulous critique and Jennifer Coates for collaborating with us and writing lyrics for both Brian and myself.
I have not put up any recordings from rehearsals simply because the recordings I have are very poor quality. And by poor I mean way worse than the less than terrific recordings I usually put up. Luckily Peter has been gracious enough to record yesterday's rehearsal and hopefully that will yield something blog-worthy.
I invite you all to come out this Friday to check out the art and hear something truly unique.
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