London-born, Oxford-educated, internationally celebrated singer-songwriter Rupert Wates brings back his thoroughly American acoustic folk steeped in deep wells of cabaret and jazz... plus the return of Smithsonian Folkways-collected, Top 40 AAA-charting Tom Pirozzoli. An exceptionally strong bill.More info on the website.This Sunday, May 19, at 7:00 PM. Advance tickets are $15 through stage33live.com — advance ticket sales close on Saturday at midnight. Tickets will be $20 at the door. As always, 100% of ticket sales support the performers, admission is limited to 40, and the event will be recorded and filmed. 

We normally take summers off — it's hard to be inside when it's finally nice out, and there's so much other stuff going on. And so many other little local do-gooder organizations host events during summer... we don't want to split their potential audience. Everything ain't about us (whether or not we think it should be).But we have a couple excellent add-on shows this summer anyway. 

Bad Smell are an extremely cool hard-driving drum-and-synth duo with a questionable moniker; they had to postpone their original April date, and the make-up is

July 27

. A pair of loud, crunchy bands open for them. Ezra Holloway — that kid from Saxtons River who is not much a kid anymore — is playing with his new sides first, and supergroup Tinkerbullet (partly from Windsor, partly from Burlington) are in the middle.

Then on August 18 we've got another couple of returning top-shelf performers playing on the same bill for the first time. Darkly hilarious and dead serious singer-songwriter Grant Peeples, and globetrotting, truth-telling troubadour Fred Gillen Jr will co-headline on

August 18

.

Though summer break looms, we won’t be sitting idle. We’re starting to put together long-form broadcast programming (finally) from the archived documentation. Big project! Each clip's audio is being remixed for broadcast, and the video regraded and recut, because we have better tools now and better skills. It's still in the early upslope phase where we're developing a rhythm of best practices.The conceit is that each program circles around a loose, barely-contained theme… the clips directly or tangentially about the given theme of the particular show.Which brings us to this: We could use help cataloging the clips. WORK FROM HOME OPPORTUNITY! Well, volunteer from home. Wanna help tag our video library? Relive awesome performances, and maybe some mediocre ones! Discover moments you may have missed! 

We’ve tagged a bunch of them, and there’s bunches more to do. It's set up in online spreadsheets — you’ll need a Google account. More than one person can work on it at once, it updates in real time. (We've already discovered that trying to mix offline and online is an exercise in frustration, so it's online only.)

We’ve got a list of themes (perhaps too many but possibly not enough), things like:

We’ve also got everything listed by year, in order.There’s no rules — just a framework. It might seem daunting at first, but you’ll figure out a flow that works for you pretty quickly. You can skip around, whatever. You don’t have to listen to the whole clip, just enough to find a theme. And there’s no quota, just do what you will… a few a day or every other day, or binge like a total completionist. We’re in favor of the latter, of course. Wink.This will be easier to do on a desktop or tablet than on a phone. Unless maybe if you have two phones. Or maybe that’s not really true. You’re part of a clever and inventive species, despite all those other people.This is the framework:Choose a title from the spreadsheet that isn’t tagged yet, listen to it on our YouTube channel, pick a theme from the list that fits best (even if it barely fits), and notate that theme into the spreadsheet next to the title.At first it’ll seem slow and clunky, but once you’ve got a system down, it can take only a couple minutes per. Or less.Thoroughness and accuracy actually aren’t super important. Obliqueness and humor are a plus, No worries, no stress.Ideally each clip in a given performer's set will have a different tag, but sometimes that’s just not possible. Some performers only have one thing on their mind.The theme can be based on the title, or a line, or whatever. Sometimes more than one theme fits, and that’s fine — notate them both (or all). Or if none fit, you can add a new theme to the list. Nothing too specific… themes need to be broad enough that other clips will fit too.Or if you want to skip tagging one because nothing obvious jumps out, that’s fine. On to the next.Sound like something fun and/or fulfilling? Drop us an email, [email protected] and we’ll share the spreadsheet with you (we’ll need your Google username / Google email to give you access).We’ll give as much guidance as you want or need to get comfy and will happily answer any questions along the way.It will be such a huge help!An afterthought, an incentive. When the tagging is done, we’ll tally up how many each person did, and out of gratitude we'll give a ticket to any show of your choice for every 100 clips tagged. Tag 200 for two tickets, etc. That might sound like a lot, but once you’ve got the swing of things, it should take something on the order of a couple-three hours to do a hundred. As time-trades go it’s a pretty square deal, even if it’s nowhere even close to a living wage. If it helps, we don’t get paid anything at all. We try not to think about that too much. 

Tommy Crawford's set from 4/20 is up, and the Reed-Foehl-and-Jeff-Berlin set just started going up yesterday — one new song being revealed every day for the next dozen or so days.

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