Phil Henry and Erin Ash Sullivan, a 3:00 matinee this Sunday.
$20 in advance through stage33live.com or at the door as available; advance tickets guarantee entry. Only 40 tickets will be sold.
They've both been voted "Most Wanted" at the iconic Falcon Ridge Festival, and have won all sorts of songwriting and performance accolades.
They're definitely bigger than we are — a rare opportunity to catch them in intimate performance. (Last time Phil played Bellows Falls it was at the 500-seat Opera House.)Widely noted, this one!
At this point it's looking like there will be plenty of room for walk-ups, but it's never a bad idea to grab tickets in advance.A taste:
Then at the end of the month, on the 28th, another exceptional acoustic show with Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards and Luminous Crush. This is a 6:00 PM semi-evening show with a pair of top-notch duos that are remarkably different from each other, yet with lots of overlap. A pretty cool pairing.
Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards’ vocal harmonies, mindful lyrics, and down-to-earth presence are soul-soothing even when they’re singing about difficult things. Their songs reflect the experiences of factory workers, teachers, community organizers, and natives of post-industrial mill towns. Accompanying themselves on guitar, harmonica, ukulele, penny whistle, electric bass, and most uniquely clarinet, their live performances are captivating and uplifting, balanced between serious and humorous. These prolific and hardworking artists have contributed over seventeen albums and tour consistently throughout the US and Canada.Luminous Crush are Laura Molinelli and Bay Campbell… they're more uptempo than Mark & Raianne, but with a similar social conscience and depth. Also the leaders of a prolific electric dream-pop band, for this show they’ll be playing their bluegrass / alt country / Americana pop-rock in an acoustic duo configuration.Tickets are $20 in advance through stage33live.com or at the door as available. Advance tickets guarantee entry. Only 40 tickets will be sold.
Looking forward to mid-October, we were thrilled to learn recently that the Draa Hobbs album release show will feature not just Draa, but tenor sax virtuoso Michael Zsoldos, Berklee College of Music’s Rich Greenblatt on vibes, Hartford bassist Steve Bulmer, and extraordinary drummer Tim Gilmore. Jazz fans take note!
This is a 7:00 PM affair. Tickets are a startlingly discounted $15 in advance through stage33live.com (or $20 at the door as available). Advance tickets guarantee entry. Only 40 tickets will be sold.
Remember our tale of woe from the last missive? The one about the drive-we-hadn't-backed-up-yet that crapped out and we lost a ton of the podcast work we'd done?
Except for the last one and a half podcasts, we're caught back up. Woo-hoo!Did we set up a real-time sync drive so that we'll never be caught in that trap again? Of course we didn't.Did the same thing happen again, but to a different drive? Of course it did.
We got the dreaded blue screen of death on the production computer — first time ever for this machine (which is getting a little long in the tooth, almost five years old).Restarted. The working drive wasn't being recognized. The computer came with two internal drives, one for system files and one for working. Good that it wasn't the system drive.Tried restarting again, no love. Tried chkdsk, tried to re-initialize, no love no love because there was no disk recognized.Dove into the guts of the computer to unplug the drive and plug it back in again. Still nothing.Fortunately there wasn't much of consequence on it except folders for the upcoming season with ephemeral content, and the caches for the video editing program. As it turns out, though, that's also where the video editing program stores the license key, so podcast catch-up ground to a halt.And of course we couldn't find the backup txt file with the key, which we know we made because we do that for anything with a serial number. Sigh. Wasn't where it shoulda oughtta.The good news is that the podcast work is on external drives (that are now being backed up daily). But we do the seasonal stuff from that internal drive, so it coulda been another bona fide disaster if this happened a couple-three months from now.Since we use raw SATA drives in a dock for long-term backups of the documentation, we had a couple in hand.Switched out the bad disk for a new one (and upgraded from 2TB to 4 in the process), everything is working fine.Then, a new mystery. Dropped the bad drive into the dock to see if there was any way anything could be salvaged — without a lot of hope, because it seemed locked up — but it popped right open.Immediately dragged everything onto the new working drive.So in the end nothing was lost, but there was elevated heartrate and despair for a while.Final straw! We're dipping into the meager emergency funds to get a realtime backup going for the production computer. A 6TB SSD is on the way. Don't need any more of this drama.
Speaking of the podcast, it'll start dropping in video and audio formats this month, and monthly thereafter, on third Thursdays — because it's got the same alliteration as "33" — at 3:30 AM, natch.
You'll be able to find it all sorts of places where you can subscribe and give it a rating and a review. We'll also have it embedded on our website.The video version will be on YouTube and Spotify.The audio version will be all over the place. If you use an aggregator, here's the feed link — and you'll find it on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, YouTube, iHeart, and more.We posted a little Coming Attractions reel that you can watch or listen to at any of those places.
