anyone???

walk today: moriah walked down the street from ave coffee to cross at a crosswalk (and not be another crazy tucson pedestrian crossing the street randomly on campbell), and then walk back over to the folk shop :) i played a cool 12-string guitar - very fun.

But on a more important note: my bandmate is in trouble! her cello is dying and she needs to sell her current cello for just it's historic, antique value. If anyone wants a German cello, made in the 1850s for pure cool, antique-y reasons, let me know! She's trying to sell it for around $1000 (original value was $3200).

Because she now needs to buy a new cello! So if anyone wants to donate to Laelia/Lemon Abbey so we keep playing - also let me know. Or if you know someone who knows someone....

not to be compared

i've been practicing this song, and i found a video of two famous mandolinists playing it as well. i am trying not to compare myself to them in thinking i shouldn't even attempt to play anymore, but they do look like they're having fun :)

today

i played at a bluegrass jam! it was great fun, and since it was for beginner's, i didn't have to feel bad about playing crappy :)

i walked a little but not much :( mostly around campus with lori smelling the orange trees...

so i posted

about kate rusby before, but laelia and i tried playing some of her songs today-great fun! and so here's one to enjoy that we tried :)



you can also enjoy their accents!

there are no words...

but since i'm an extrovert, i will attempt to describe it anyways...

i have seen many bands, but The Low Anthem has got to be one of the most gifted set of musicians i've ever seen. this is the second time i've seen them in the past year and WOW! i am very much blessed. everyone played at least 4 instruments - the pump organ, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, electric bass, stand-up bass, harmonica, the fun machine, drums, other random percussion instruments, a horn of some kind, a mini-banjo, and twin clarinets (playing in harmony no less).

seriously...

at one point the lead singer was playing a crazy rhythm on the drums while flailing both arms and legs, while intermittently soloing on the harmonica. they also had a song where the 4 of them sang into an old school, super powerful mic (right in front of me!!!) in 4 part harmony -insert ecstatic scream here.

on one song, called "This God Damn House", he puts two cell phones on speaker phone and whistles into them, and it creates this weird echoing effect from the feedback between the phones. but this time around, he asked us (audience) to call each other and do it too, so we did :) it was just awesome...so we also soloed with him on speaker phone while the rest of the band kept playing.

i just keep laughing because i'm just utterly amazed! they played songs from both albums, a cover, and several new songs they just finished recording - oh happy day!

if you want to look up some of their music, they're new album is called "Oh My God, Charlie Darwin". The songs "To Ohio", "Ticket Taker", and the song I posted yesterday are my three current favs.

thank you The Low Anthem!

playing at Plush tomorrow!

so so exciting, but so so tired...

one more post for the day...

this is perhaps one of the most beautiful string pieces i've ever heard...