Friday night jazzification

ETHAN KELLER

FRIDAY, Nov. 21 (that's tonight!), 8pm

Need to warm up your cold self on this frosty day? Come on down to the Stump tonight to see and hear one of the most talented cats in the cheese state right now...Ethan Keller. I can't say enough about Ethan...he's been here, what, three or four times now, and it has always been a night of super-fine music and energy. We got our start times a little confused, so we're going with 8:00pm. I think we're going to have some hot cider with apple-cinnamon liqueur on hand too...guaranteed to warm both your spirit and your innards.

Dangit! Lost in computer wasteland.

As I write this I'm uploading the last of the videos onto YouTube of JoAnn, Jeannie and Chelsea from Saturday night's performance. Those gals are just the bee's knees! Really strong songwriters and very raw and elemental in their performances. When they perform it's about as close as you can get to the feeling of hanging out at a home party or around a campfire, drinking beer, your pals bringing out their guitars and everyone just having a great time...it's loose and relaxed, a good deal of fun chitchat and laughs, and some truly awesome music.

JoAnn Riedl

YouTube sucks for image quality in the transfer (everything seems to blur a bit), but the sound is pretty good. I'm using a Flip Video camera for everything, a great little gizmo I got from our friend Rob who's down in Texas. The image quality and sound coming off the Flip is excellent; it's on the YouTube end that the image gets fuzzy.

Jeannie Mayotte

I also had some great video of Matt Davies from Friday night and of Greg Pagel from Saturday's noon show. But something happened as I was uploading...everything froze up on the computer for several minutes and when it finally kicked in again all of my videos had been erased. All of them, not just the ones of Matt and Greg, but all of them. Fortunately, the ones of JoAnn, Jeannie and Chelsea were on the camera yet, and not in the Flip files like the others. I'm bummed but what can you do.

Chelsea Z.

Today and Tonight

Saturday, Nov. 8
Live music with Greg Pagel - keyboard and accordion demon.
12:00 noon
Saturday, Nov. 8
Live Music with JoAnn Riedl, Jeannie Mayotte and Chelsea Z. - a trio of rockin' Milwaukee artists.
8:00pm

Hey, an actual update!

Derek & Dan

Here's some Flickr sets from the last couple of weekends: Adam Morantez 10/3; Bill Martell 10/4; Dan Walkner with Derek Pritzl 10/10; Kelly Underwood 10/11.

Adam Morantez & Bill Martell - weekend of Oct 3&4.

Dan Walkner with Derek Pritzl & Kelly Underwood - weekend of Oct 10&11.

The Usual Suspects

I'm having a bit of trouble loading video onto YouTube. Will give it another try later (getting weary of it not loading already!). Have a great vid of Dan & Derek performing together, and a fun one of Kelly (I think she's flipping me the bird). Dan and Derek were freaking awesome together, and Kelly was a blast the next night, making up a bunch of off-the-cuff silly songs directed at people in the audience (including my daughter, Jesse, which was very fun).

Product placement, baby!

D&D = BLOW THE ROOF OFF!

Just got the word from Dan Walkner that Derek Pritzl will be his special guest this Friday night. Picture this...Friday night in the coolest small space on the lakeshore, enjoying a great Belgian beer or glass of good chardonnay, munching a little tapas, and listening to two guys who live and breathe hard-edged blues rock (it's practically a midwest supergroup...).

Friday at 8pm: Dan Walkner with Derek Pritzl

Saturday night @ 8pm: Kelly Underwood closes the weekend with her gorgeous self. Back from Nashville to weave her lovely songs and voice into the evening.