Reggae begins in 5, 4, 3, 2...

It's 5:00. Pato Banton and the Now Generation band are going to light up TR in around 3-3.5 hours.

Tea and Folk Music tonight

Whipped up a special herbal tea blend yesterday, and we're selling it for a song to our tea lovers.

Half-a-Pound for only 7.95 while it lasts.

Tonight at 7pm, our talented friends from Milwaukee Matt & Steph Davies are going to be here and they bring the good tunes and fun with them every time. It's going to be a beautiful evening so come on down, have a beer or latte and take a load off for a spell.

TONIGHT (Fri) at 7pm

A censored post

Pasted below is the beginning of what was to be my blog post for today (you can click it to enlarge), nine pages of gossip and revelation concerning three saucy dames and two innocent menfolk.
As luck would have it the girls (Amy, Karen and Lynn) popped in just as I was finishing my writing. They snatched the papers from my hand and, before returning them to me, did a little editing so as not to incriminate themselves. Below is the result.The other eight pages look pretty much the same as this first one above, so I figure why bother? It was a fun evening, but as I do in fact value my safety I will say no more. Suffice to say, those girls are somethin' else!

Port Sandy Bay pizza & beer, then music at the Stump

Kim and I closed shop for an hour and ran over to Port Sandy Bay for a pizza and drink before coming back to Stumpjack for the Six Degrees (Bill Martell & Becky Markvart) performance at 7pm. Kim says that Travis at Port Sandy makes the best "brandy old fashioned sweet" of any place in the area (that's her drink, with olives).

Port Special.

A giant beer hides Kim's brandy-old-fashioned-sweet w/ olives.

Leinies Amber Ale in the big mug.

A perfect pizza drink.

Six Degrees (Bill and Becky) from tonight's gig.

Flickr sets of recent music nights

Image by Nate Walkner

I'm up editing and loading images and videos from the last couple weeks. Still have a bunch to load from a few months ago when I was wrestling with computer demons and had to transfer a lot of stuff onto Kim's laptop...I'll get to those sometime soon I hope. But for now here are some Flickr sets from me, Nate Walkner and Brian Powell (Nate and Brian have other sets that I'm not listing here...check out their Flickr sites) from the past couple weeks. I'll add the YouTube video links to this same post once I get those uploaded onto YouTube.

I don't have the time to do reviews of all these performances. Suffice to say that each and every one was great fun. We've been very blessed to have such talented musicians play the Stump, and every single one of them has been unbelievably thoughtful and a joy to work with. Click the various links below to see the pix.

Brian's Flickr set of Dan Walkner

Lillie Lemon. Image by Brian.

Brian's set of Lillie Lemon

West of East (Tim and Sara). Image by Brian.

Brian's set of West of East

Dan. Image by Nate.

Nate's Flickr set of Dan Walkner

My set of West of East

Ethan Keller by Eric Vandeveld. Check out Eric's photography here.

Ethan Keller & Kelly Underwood

Matt, Steph & Orly say Happy Birthday to Cheyenne. Image by Brian.

Matt & Steph Davies and Orly Bendavid

Hopscotch Wonder packs the place.

Hopscotch Wonder

dankennedy (yessir, that's how he spells it) and Joseph O'Seph belt it out in downtown TR.

Dan Kennedy & Joseph O'Seph

Lillie Lemon

Dan Walkner

That's a lot of pictures. I've been loading for several hours and now it's past 2:00am. As the great Red Skelton used to say, "Goodnight and may God bless."