Thursday night: I headed to my hometown, ukulele in tow, and serenaded my cat, Gilbert, for as long as he could stand it (which was not long).
Friday: I facilitated a rocks & minerals art workshop at the Lawrence Arts Center with 27 very energetic first thru fifth graders. Somehow I mustered up the energy to continue my day into the night..
Friday night: I hit up an amazing Chuck Mead (a Lawrence, KS native and Nashville transplant) & The Grassy Knoll Boys concert at The Bottleneck in Lawrence with a handful of my closest friends.. and their first encore song was Apache. Mind blowing to say the least.
Saturday: listened to records, ate vegetarian tacos, napped, listened to more records, ate more tacos, slept. It was very sloth like.
Sunday: a mandatory visit to Love Garden Sounds. 15 new acquisitions made possible by a very nice gift certificate from the folks at the Lawrence Public Library in thanks for the paper cutting workshop I did there for the Read Across Lawrence program. Finds included a couple Bobby Bare records; Mike Auldridge – Dobro (playing along with the likes of, but not limited to, Doyle Lawson, Vassar Clements, David Bromberg, etc), Original Sloth Band, Dicky Betts, a couple records featuring music with Theodore Bikel, Red Rhodes, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, etc.; Several cool finds in the dollar bin including Black Oak Arkansas and Pretty Things.. etc, etc, etc. Kinda cool: Saul Broudy’s record “Travels with Broudy” signed by Broudy himself with the note, “To Sylvia, Thanks for the wine! See ya soon.” I love finding little notes like that..
And an afternoon meeting for the upcoming Bizarre Bazaar.
Back to work. Much to do. Lots of music to do it to.