Oh, bittersweet endings. Yesterday was the last day of the 2016 Listening Room Festival.
If you live in the Tampa Bay area, and you didn’t experience either one of the showcases (more here) or a house concert this week (one example here), you really missed out. Such amazing musicians came from across the country and beyond to show Florida their stuff.Read More »LRF Finale 2016
I was first introduced to his songs on Monday at the Listening Room Festival‘s Meet the Artists event (more here). I knew I liked him when he opened with a subversively bawdy song, “She Whistles When She Walks,” and closed with a moving and serious song, “Big Time.”
Last night I got the opportunity to hear more of Antsy McClain‘s fantastic music.Read More »Antsy McClain House Concert
There’s been a rather non-fun cycle that has popped its head up throughout my life. The basics are that there is some sort of misunderstanding where an argument ensues. The latter have historically resulted in variable shades of ugliness.Read More »Night and Day
My little apartment is very different now that Willow isn’t here. It’s quieter.
Certainly there’s no buzzing.
It’s that time of year again in the Tampa Bay area: Listening Room Festival time!!
This is a music festival that honors house concerts and listening rooms, those small venues that actually concentrate on the music.Read More »LRF Meet the Artists
Pretty, isn’t it? Beautiful even. The knots in the wood catch your eye as they swirl. The red of whatever wood it is is dark and deep. Almost the color of drying blood.Read More »Not Yet
Spring Break ends tomorrow. This week has gone by so quickly, yet so slowly.Read More »Life Goes On
This week has been an interesting one from an emotional standpoint. I’ve felt a dullness since Willow passed. Sometimes it becomes more prominent. Others it diminishes.
Ever since yesterday, I’ve been playing my “grief” playlist. It’s that list of songs that can make you cry even when you are at your… Read More »Healing Music