Blogger, blogger
I’m relatively new to this blogging phenomenon, having only begun the process last October. In general, I have been fairly diligent getting posts up on the blog at least a few times a week. Lately however, as my more attentive blog readers can attest, I have been on the about-once-a-week plan with posts. I struggle ...
Breaking for Spring
It is Easter Sunday (yes, that is a Giant Peep) and things are feeling kind of quiet around here, finally. The kids are off this whole coming week for their school’s spring break. Although I have a good amount of work to do myself this week, I have nothing that needs to conform to any ...
Happy St. Pat’s
This weekend is a busy one for those in the Irish Music business. The Riley School kids performed yesterday at the Cincinnati Museum Center’s Celtic Lands Festival, and will do so again today. Many of the older kids, who generally take charge in these sorts of venues, were off playing their own professional gigs. This ...
Salsa dancing at Havana Martini Club was a blast, not that I danced. I sketched a few silhouetted outlines of the dancers dancing in my sketchbook and took some photographs of all the activity. At one point in the evening, three female dancers who were having birthdays were treated to having the dance floor all ...
what’s cookin?
What’s cookin’ in studio? A lot! This week has seen the convergence of many of my part time jobs and I have been operating a regular 3-ring circus in my head, on the calendar and in the studio. Coming up on Saturday is this month’s Family Saturday at the Carnegie Center for Performing and Visual ...
Band Night
Three out of the four people in my immediate family are actively involved, in some form or another, in the Irish cultural scene here in Cincinnati. The annual McGing Ceili was last night so while Maddie performed dances on which she and her classmates have worked months, Jack and I had the honor of playing ...