Following the raging success of last week’s “Fishes n B!tches” fish fry, Musicians, Mentors, and Barroom Heroes brings you “Sqrrlz & Grrlz”, a Michael-Darby-homecooked squirrel stew (or something) on-air extravaganza, complete with alligator meat from Red DeVecca and a frozen rabbit/possum from Lou. Come for the sqrrlz, stay for the grrlz. (Or vice versa.) Tune in for the sizzle.
Fiiiiishes n Biiiitches!!! (aka Incest Fest ’17) Thank you to all the musicians who played and extra big thanks to Michael Darby for catching/cleaning/cooking all dat fish. Check out Stacey’s rockin’ “Hair on the Air” mohawk ‘do on Rose Cangelosi’s rockin’ head!
Also, thanks to Natasha Sanchez for hosting the pre-party(/party-party) at Buffa’s, Shawn for running boards, Stacey for taking pics, and everyone else who hung out: Amy Wingrave, Peter Huganir, Pizza Mike, Lumino Perseid, Lynn Drury, Smitti Supab, Corey Collins, Greg, Becca, Laaaaaurel, David Dunau, and my best and most clever friend, Liam DeFazio.
Shawn Williams, Artemis, and Natasha Sanchez. (Photo: Stacey Bridewell)
THIS WEEK’S DYSFUNCTIONAL CAST MEMBERS (and Cast-Wearers):
Host/ “Brain” (ha) Behind the Circus: Laura DeFazio
Unofficial Co-Horst: Pizza Mike (out sick)
Hair Do-er/Photo-taker/Chaos MGMT: Stacey Bridewell
Vintage Hairdo Victim: Carolyn Broussard
Musicians Playing Live: Mike Martinez, Natasha Sanchez, Patrick Cooper, Richard Bates Rose Cangelosi, Shawn Williams
Miscellaneous Lurkers: Shameus Pan Greymountain, “BabyDat” Artemis, David, Monica, Andrei, Chelsea Sullivan
Thanks so much to all the songwriters who came out and played after this afternoon’s Songwriter Circle feat Cary Hudson, Jean Bayou, Natasha Sanchez at Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant, plus Patrick Cooper driving in from somewheres and the eternally-uninvited Shawn Williams debuting a new song. Thank you to Stacey Kelly Vintage Styling for the amazing hair-do, and congrats to Corey Collins starting his new show “Under the Influence” (11p-1a on Sunday nights!) [Tune in Mondays now, for the Super Sounds of Sunday with Just Wade. 7-9pm!]
Bad jokes, great music, new gimmicks. Walk-ins welcome. Playlist below!
Live tunes from Carolyn Broussard, Lili Dove, everyone I could kidnap from Natasha Sanchez’s songwriter circle at Buffa’s that afternoon! (#WhoNat, Chip Wilson, Peter Orr was detained, unfortunately.) Playlist below! Thank you to all of you playa’s, lurkers, and tuners-in! A special thanks to Pizza Mike for the gas station food, which is “a new concept” to him. Adieu, Lili Dove, thank you for the little black dress, and be back soon!
Last night’s playlist! Thank you oodles to everyone who played (Dominique & Carly, Ukulele Jake, #WhoNat, #WhoPat, and JP) as well as Joshua Nelson Straume, Zachary Nelson Smith Esq, Andrew, Peter Huganir, and co-horst Pizza Mike for hanging out. My heartwarms were really acting up by the time JP played “Whisky” A few folks’ first time on air, woohoo! Continue reading
MMBRH#30: Another Great Songwriter Night and Passing of the Bottles Both Ways Around the Circle :O
N.O. Dead Air on tonight’s episode. Live music, bar stories, pregnant pauses, live applause-s, a convivial atmosphere, and info on exciting upcoming shows. Courtesy of Valerie Jean Capitanich (ha!) & a slew of local singer-songwriters. This week’s lineup includes some combination of Patrick Cooper, Lili Dove, Judy Hill, Ron Hotstream, Tina Jamieson, Alison McConnell, Natasha Sanchez, and whoever else wanders in with a guitar, a washboard, or a set of trigger-happy vocal cords. (You know who you are.)
Ha! Hahaha. Mashup! Musicians, Mentors, and Barroom Heroes will be some sort of slice of something tonight…. #LocalFlavor.
*Rumored* participants:
1) Eric Esshallop (Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant’s chef, renowned for being “comparatively sane and articulate”)
2) The one and only Michael Darby (renowned for the opposite) [possibly with offspring]
3) Former Lydia Lunch bass player Lucky Joe (Last seen drinking adult beverages at BMC, days ago.)
4) The one and only, larger than life Judy Hill (Ooh Poo Pah Doo, b!tchez) [possibly with her band]
5) Singer-songwriters Patrick Cooper and Natasha Sanchez (with their respective conversation-forcing acoustic music machines)
6-11) Whoever else stumbles in from the 6th ward, St. Bernard Parish, a brief but bright late 70s no-wave scene that flourished in New York City,and wherever the hell else in between.
Live tunes from Jean Bayou, Lili Dove, Andre Lovett, Marc Paradis, Natasha Sanchez, and Bob Worth! Additional yakking/lurking from Red DeVecca, Pizza Mike, Ashley Rice, Abby Tideman, Sarah Murphy, and/or myself. 102.3 WHIV FM 9-11 pm, tune in! (Phone in, from your local bar, living room, or out-of-state phone booth. I’ll hold your 2 cents up to the mic.)