Friday night with Marty & Pat (& sometimes Kim)

Weekend nights when we don't have any musical performances scheduled are usually pretty quiet. We generally don't make any money by being open on those evenings. But they're also some of my favorite nights of the week or month. The night usually consists of the trio of Marty (Suettinger), Pat (Sheahan) and myself sitting up front shooting the breeze, enjoying a few drinks and watching the traffic or very infrequent passers-by (Two Rivers, unfortunately, is not a town with a lot of foot traffic, no matter what time of year it is).

Occasionally other friends join us (Alex, Becky, Mike, Doug, etc). Last night it was Kim, who also had the good hostess awareness to put out a small plate of gouda and triskets. Marty often has some new techno-geek-thingy to confuse us with, and either he or Pat will inevitably take a picture of what we're drinking to put on facebook (below).

"Cheese & wine night at Stumpjack" ~ Martin Suettinger

Lemonhead meeting Saturday night

You'll see on the right sidebar a new feature: a Calendar of Events! Thanks to our personal neon and computer guru, Marty, for placing that handy feature on the site for us. Just click on an event title to get a little more info about it.

Had a super nice time last weekend with reggae and world music superstar Pato Banton and the Now Generation. I'm writing a review of the band's performances at Stumpjack for their website and promo efforts, and as part of my ongoing book project. If there's a harder working, more fun and uplifting band on the planet today I'd be very surprised. More to come, but for now, huge gratitude and respect to Pato, Antoinette, Tony, Bryan, Mikey, Eddie, Beeken and Danny. Dig this image of the band and us after the show (thanks to Marty & Glenn for the pic).

Saturday night at 7:30 or so we'll have the opening of an art exhibition by Mz. Kim Smith, who may be familiar to some of you as the good cop in the good cop/bad cop Stumpjack squad. Kim is a wonderful mosaic artist and some of her recent work (along with a couple older pieces) will be on display for the next month or two. She'll be adding to the exhibition each week as well, as pieces are sold and need to be replaced, so pop in often to see what's new on the walls. I don't have any good images of any new work but here's an older piece she made and sold to some folks a couple years ago (I think it might be in a cottage up north somewhere right now...it was a big piece, maybe 4 ft across. Most of the pieces in this show are much smaller, for ease of taking home with you!).

As part of Saturday night's festivities we will also be hosting the simply wonderful, effervescent and lyrical Lillie Lemon! Lillie (Jessica) and her band will begin at 8pm. Last time Lillie was scheduled to perform something very exciting dropped into her lap at the last minute and we postponed the show. She'll tell you about it tomorrow night I'm sure. There is something so refreshing, honest and buoyant about a Lillie Lemon gig. It just seems to make you suddenly aware that you're smiling...you have unwittingly become a LemonHead. She's coming up from Chicago so come out and join us and help support excellent live music in our community. You'll be really glad you did. Dig this poster made and then modified (had to change the date for this rescheduled show) by the statuesque and gifted Tina Kugler.