Monday May 31st

Holy crap! What a show. We had tons of guests today! If I had known so many people were coming in, I would have made hors d'oeuvres. Fried eggs and bacon on crackers, or something.

The music we heard:

Mulatu Astatke // The Way to Nice
Charles Spearin // Ondine**
Black Keys // Black Mud
Sam Cooke // (Ain't That) Good News
Brad Mehldau // Capriccio**
Anat Cohen // What a Little Moonlight Can Do
Timber TImbre // Lay Down in the Tall Grass**
Montag // Plus Grand Que
Jaga Jazzist // Oslo Skyline**
Beach House // Zebra
Broken Social Scene // World Sick
Phosphorescent // Hej, Me I'm Light**
Spirituals // Are you Devo? (Sweet Remix)**
Walter Schreifels // She Is to Me
Islands // The Arm
Manitoba// Kid, You'll Move Mountains
Momo //
Woods // Til the Sun Rips
Idlers // Merchants; Wonderwars
Calloused and Cavalier // Cobwebs
Bent By Elephants // Breaks (instrumental)**; Victor
Pearly Gate Music // Navy Blues
Pocahaunted // UFO**

**Denote favorites...

People We Met:

The Idlers: This ten-piece band from St. John's, Newfoundland, brought tales of traversing the road in a pickle-colored 15-passenger van, about how big Canada is (there is a lot of Canada, apparently,) and of playing for groups of high school students who've perfected acting bored but burst into total chaos when the sweet sounds of ska hit their ears... The Idlers can be tracked at idlers.ca; check out their totally entertaining blog at that site; and see them live at Dickens' Pub tomorrow night (Tuesday, June 1st) and the Palomino on June 17th.

Derek and Distance from Music in the Park: These dudes partake in organizing the Music in the Park festival every year, check it out in Riley Park on June 27th. You can find out more at thehousecoffee.ca.

Marilyn Potts, Director, the Midnapore Cycles: St Mary's University College is back with another interesting piece of theatre, occurring in the style of a medieval cycle play, wherein the audience follows the actors place-to-place in a specifically sited production. Check it out at http://themidnaporecycle.com/. Performances start June 10th and run til June 13th.

Talk to all y'all next week--

Love
Dane