be there or be square

[realthog]

Bound Brook Memorial Library
402 E. High Street
Bound Brook, NJ 08805
(732) 356-0043

Join guitarist (and mystery writer) Peggy Ehrhart and The Still Standing Band in an exploration of popular music’s debt to African-American musical traditions. Performing songs associated with such artists as Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Albert King, and the Beatles, The Still Standing Band will trace the development of the blues-flavored idiom that became classic rock.

The Still Standing Band also features Howie Bowe on bass and vocals and Steve Wortman on keyboards, harmonica, and vocals.

Peggy Ehrhart is the author of Sweet Man is Gone , introducing blues-singer sleuth Maxx Maxwell.

This program is free and open to the public. Prior registration is requested [so the library can contact you in case of late program change/cancellation]. Call (732) 356-0043 to sign up or click here to register online.

Directions to get there are here.

Peggy tells me she will have copies of Sweet Man is Gone for sale at the venue, and I gather that audience members who are especially well behaved might be able to persuade her to add an autograph.

Comments

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

Guess I'm going to have to be square . . . ;(

Eh, story of my life.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm sure our vibes will be diminished and our grooving all the poorer.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

My wife listened to 1 minute of that Prom and proclaimed it NOISE.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"My wife listened to 1 minute of that Prom and proclaimed it NOISE."

I thought that part of it -- i.e., the bit to which I refer -- was pretty nice. The act immediately before it was indeed, I thought, just a din -- sort of as if you'd thrown your cutlery drawer down a flight of stairs.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

I had to go to bed before reaching that point, I'm afraid. Right now I'm listening to the Falla, Andriessen, and Ravel Prom. But when my department admin assistant turns up I'll have to turn it down and get to work putting together a meeting agenda.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

I've just been listening to the Ravel. Is the Andriessen any good? I skipped on the grounds that it looked as if it might be, well, an introductory Indian act.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

The Andriessen stayed under my perceptual level, as I'd been working while having the prom on as background. The essential Espanishness of the Falla intruded on my notice (as did the rising loudness of the Ravel Bolero).

[realthog.livejournal.com]

The Andriessen stayed under my perceptual level

In a sense, that's actually a recommendation: at least it didn't sound like emergency roadworks, or whatever. I might go back and give it a spin, if I remember.