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Television Show
Correction: The broadcast date for my appearance with the Belles Trio (mentioned in the previous post) will be Saturday, June 16, at 9 p.m., not this coming Saturday.
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TV Taping
I’m going to be on television next Saturday on Staten Island. The Belles Trio (Mara Levine, Caroline Cutroneo and Marie Elena) and New Jersey songwriter Terry Rivel are going to be featured on a program this Saturday called “Island Hopping” (Saturday, June 16, 9pm on Staten Island Community Television, channel 34), and I played harmonica with them for a half-dozen songs. The Belles do beautiful harmonies on original and traditional tunes, and Terry is a great songwriter.
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings at P.S. 122
We saw Gillian Welch and David Rawlings last night at Town Hall (me, mikeskliar, and our friends Seth and John), opening for Bright Eyes, in a truly impressive show. They, of course, were amazing, but Bright Eyes blew me away. A huge band, at least ten people, all dressed in white, very loud, but very tight and very melodic. Oberst’s songwriting is outstanding and the arrangements were testimony to how much you can do to acoustic folk melodies.
But as good as it was, Monday night was secondary to Sunday night. Mike called me at the last minute and said that Gillian and David were doing an “unnamed music and comedy show” at PS 122 in the East Village. This is a small black-box theater and we had front-row seats; I didn’t take that many photos because David Rawlings could hear the shutter clicking. Which was fine, because I was too busy trying to understand what the hell he was doing on the guitar.
Florida Trip
I always have mixed feelings about going to conferences in beautiful places, since you spend most of your time sitting indoors under fluorescent lighting and may as well be in New Jersey. But Florida fortunately wasn’t all work; the highlight was being six feet away from a bald eagle.
The Last Night at the Roadhouse
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Queens By Bike, and NYC From the Air
I rode out to the Queens Museum yesterday to see the second of the three Robert Moses exhibits (and folks, I know eyes tend to glaze over when urban planning comes up, but these are great). This one focuses on Moses’ good side, his early projects to build parks and pools and playgrounds, including the incredible summer of 1936 when he opened a new pool every week of the summer, all magnificent palaces that remain jewels of the city’s park system.
And with just a few minutes remaining, we visited the reopened New York City Panorama, the scale model of the city built by Moses for the second world’s fair.