I wanted to share some upcoming concert dates. The last two years I’ve toured Europe in the fall but this year I’m working on a European tour for Spring of 2018 and instead I have fall concerts on Vancouver Island and near Washington, DC.
I start things off with a solo concert at 2:30 pm, Sunday, September 24th in Qualicum Beach, BC, at the “Old School House Arts Centre” as part of their concert series. A nice article about the concert in the local paper.
Then I’ll be performing as a soloist with the Victoria Chamber Orchestra, playing Debussy’s Danses Sacrée et Profane at 8 pm on Friday, October 20th at First Church of Christ, Scientist, 1205 Pandora, Victoria, BC. I love the Debussy Danses – I played them for the first time with Yariv Aloni and the Victoria Chamber Orchestra over 20 years ago – can’t wait to play them again :) I’ll also be playing the wonderful harp part to Vaughan Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus on the same concert.
I’ll be performing a solo concert at 2:30pm, on Saturday, October 28th in Victoria, BC, at St. Luke’s Church, 3821 Cedar Hill X Rd.
I’m attending the Camac Harp Festival in Washington, DC (well, actually in Alexandria) the weekend of November 3-5, just for fun! Should be a great weekend :)
And afterwards I’ll be doing a masterclass and solo concert for the Washington, DC, American Harp Society chapter on Monday, November 6th. The masterclass starts at 4:30pm and the concert starts at 7pm. Ark and Dove Presbyterian Church (8424 Piney Orchard Parkway, Odenton, Maryland
And finally I’ll be playing in Lumberon, North Carolina, on Tuesday, November 7th. 7pm, Trinity Episcopal Church, 1202 N Chestnut St. Lumberton, NC
Moving forces you to sort through everything you own, and that develops a chance to prune your valuables. It's not constantly simple to choose what you'll bring along to your brand-new house and what is predestined for the curb. In some cases we're sentimental about items that have no practical use, and sometimes we're overly optimistic about clothes that no longer sports or fits equipment we inform ourselves we'll begin using again after the move.
Despite any pain it may cause you, it is necessary to eliminate anything you genuinely do not require. Not just will it help you avoid clutter, but it can actually make it much easier and more affordable to move.
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In about 20 years of cohabiting, my partner and I have moved 8 times. For the very first seven moves, our homes or condominiums got progressively bigger. That permitted us to build up more clutter than we required, and by our eighth move we had a basement storage location that housed six VCRs, a minimum of a lots board games we had actually seldom played, and a guitar and a pair of amplifiers that I had actually not touched in the whole time we had cohabited.
We had actually carted all this things around since our ever-increasing space permitted us to. For our final move, nevertheless, we were downsizing from about 2,300 square feet of completed area, with storage and a two-car garage, to 1,300 square feet with neither storage nor a garage. And we were doing it by U-Haul.
As we packed up our personal belongings, we were constrained by the space limitations of both our brand-new condominium and the 20-foot rental truck. We required to discharge some stuff, that made for some tough options.
Having room for something and requiring it are two totally various things. For our move from Connecticut to Florida, my other half and I put down some ground guidelines:
If we have not utilized it in over a year, it goes. This helped both people cut our wardrobes way down. I personally got additional hints rid of half a lots matches I had no event to wear (a lot of which did not fit), along with lots of winter season clothes I would no longer require (though a few pieces were kept for journeys up North).
If it has not been opened considering that the previous move, eliminate it. We had a whole garage filled with plastic bins from our previous relocation. One contained absolutely nothing but smashed glass wares, and another had grilling devices we had actually long considering that changed.
Don't let fond memories trump reason. This was a hard one, since we had actually accumulated over 2,000 CDs and more than 10,000 books. Moving them was not useful, and digital formats like MP3s and e-books made them all unneeded.
One was stuff we absolutely wanted-- things like our staying clothing and the furniture we required for our new home. Due to the fact that we had one U-Haul and two little cars and trucks to fill, some of this stuff would merely not make the cut.
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Moving required us to part with a lot of products we desired but did not need. I even provided a big tv to a friend who helped us move, since in the end, it merely did not fit.
Packing too much stuff is among the greatest moving mistakes you can make. Save yourself some time, cash, and peace of mind by decluttering as much as possible prior to you move.
The Cabaret Metro in Wrigleyville neighborhood of Chicago (well known as just the Metro now) has hosted a great number of stellar acts since 1982. Some of which I have witnessed, and most of them were with our group “The Fish Guys.” Brown and Crosse and Sonny frequented multiple times with me to see a number of acts like Jon Spencer’s Blues Explosion, The Jesus Lizard and The Reverend Horton Heat. The Metro holds about 1100 people. So it’s a larger venue in the city but by no means as massive as say the Aragon Ballroom. And it can get loud…really loud. I remember that from JSBX show…just piercing but somehow cathartic.
That was not the case this past Wednesday when the four of us took in the reincarnation of the MC5 headed by guitarist Wayne Kramer under the guise of the MC50. While it rocked for certain, the sound in the Metro that evening was well, perfect.
Krammer is one of two original members of the MC5 still kicking and has toured as the MC5 in various lineups for good part of the past 15 years. The original MC5 were together until 1973 releasing 3 major label LPs. Then a 20 year hiatus and a reformation of the group in 1993 for a tribute to late singer Rob Tyner. In 2003 Kramer took to the road again and gigged with his two other original band mates Michael Davis on bass and Dennis Thompson on drums. They gigged with supporting members until 2012. This past year Kramer recruited Kim Thayil (Soundgarden) on second guitar, Billy Gould (Faith No More) on bass, Brendan Canty (Fugazi) on drums and front man extraordinaire Mark Durant (Zen Guerilla) to celebrate 50 years of Kicking out the Jams.
This is a preview of The Joup Friday Album: MC5 – Kick out the Jams . Read the full post (973 words, 6 images, estimated 3:54 mins reading time)
Nature is reclaiming my elderly neighbour’s house. Really rubbing his nose in it. Recently I’ve been walking around all my former haunts, and this album has been accompanying me. Of course, there’s nothing like the olfactory and auditory to fast-track you to your memory banks, but this is nostalgia illegitimately invoked since this is an album as new to me as the year. Ordinarily I try to unearth an album to share with you that I’ve lived with for a long time, but strangely, this is an album that takes me to the era it was made without me having heard it before.
So, 2017 huh? Look, I’ll be honest with you, I’ve really been struggling to come up with some kind of year-end list of pop culture phenomena and detritus that were special to me or that made the year great or whatever, and I just don’t think I can do it. I’ll always have “Twin Peaks,” and this new cinematic Stephen King Renaissance has been pretty cool to watch take off, as well as all the other films I enjoyed (which you can read about here) this year. And sure, I’ve got my albums and songs that I dug on a whole bunch just as I do every year (which you can also read about here, here, and here respectively), but I just can’t summon the power or the energy to write a recap that won’t sound like I’m repeating myself…or that will make up for the general, overwhelming hopelessness and despair that 2017 has been wrought with.
This is a preview of 2017…Meh: Looking Ahead to 2018 . Read the full post (1339 words, 10 images, estimated 5:21 mins reading time)
27/10/2017 • arts, education, Literature, metaphysical, music, north america, photography, travel, Uncategorized • by Joe Grez
Our family was middle class, blue collar, Polish and suburban. If you look at the average income of all the Chicago suburbs, Palos Hills falls literally right in the middle. Whatever “middle class” is these days, but in 1991 there was still a middle class and my brother and I grew up in it. As such we generally took one family trip a year, that is if my parents could afford it and get off of work. In the summer of 1991 we traveled west for not one but two weeks! I think my father’s rationalizing was we hadn’t taken a trip the previous year, and odds on after I graduated high school would not take another one as the four of us. This was “the last big family adventure!”
In late July we pilled into our tan Chevrolet four-door Suburban (the SUV before SUVs) and headed west on I-80. I will hand it to my parents, it was an epic trip and more then likely spawned my travel bug for years to come. We made stops at Pike’s Peak, the Grand Canyon, four corners, Las Vegas, The Great Salt Lake, Yellowstone National Park and The Devil’s tower. I’m sure there were a few kitch stops as well knowing my mother.
Appropriately enough, I read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy during that two weeks. I had a black Sony Walkman and I loved that machine. I played so much music through that contraption in the four years between sophomore year in high school and freshman year at the university. On this trip it was REM’s Out of Time, Sting’s The Soul Cages and of course Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Into the Great Wide Open…today’s Friday album.
We come to the final member of the Holy Trinity, The Smiths’ The Queen is Dead, which along with The Cure’s The Head on the Door and New Order’s Brotherhood, were the three albums I was given for Christmas when I was 13 that went on to influence my musical taste for the rest of my life. The Queen is Dead probably got the least play out of the three back then, but has proven to have the most staying power despite my ever-growing weariness with Morrissey and his… Morrisseyness. The simple truth is that I love the Smiths despite Morrissey, not because of him. Johnny Marr has been my lifelong guitar god and if I have to listen to an obnoxious narcissist bloviate over the top of him, it’s worth it to get those sweetass riffs and jangles.
This is a preview of The Joup Friday Album: The Smiths – The Queen is Dead . Read the full post (805 words, 5 images, estimated 3:13 mins reading time)
I really thought someone would have already chosen this record for a previous edition of The Joup Friday Album. However, a quick search for “The Postal Service” in the search bar in the upper right column came back with nothing… so here you have it: The Joup Friday album comes from various parts of the world; The Postal Service’s only full length release on Sub Pop Records, entitled “Give Up.”
This is a preview of The Joup Friday Album: The Postal Service – Give Up . Read the full post (486 words, 6 images, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)
That kid who sat at the back of the class, seemingly almost monochromatic except for his Egon Schiele pink-tinged skin? You never heard of him again. You assume he was institutionalised after leaving school for the strange things he was rumoured to be doing to the neighbourhood pets in his bedroom. Or perhaps he even managed to drift along under the radar for a while until he finally did that hushed-up ‘something’ that got him put away for the rest of his natural days. It thrills my soul to think, that for someone in the world, that kid has wandered back into their consciousness as a bona fide dyed-in-the-wool purveyor of American song. The signs were already apparent on the aptly named ‘Supper’, the penultimate, most accomplished album of Smog’s career to that point. The songs were sumptuously crafted, achingly poignant or else chugged-along rockingly, teeming with an abundance of astute observation delivered in his trademark laconic style. After declaring his love for a watercourse, the Smog lifted, and along with it, so did his mood…albeit temporarily, making it easy to forget that this monochromatic, Egon Schiele-skinned kid used to do strange things to his tape recorder in his bedroom.
This is a preview of The Joup Friday Album: (smog) ‘Accumulation: None’ . Read the full post (424 words, 7 images, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)
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