Friday night was the CD Release Party for Mike Essoudry's Mashed Potato Mashers. We tore up the Black Sheep with our more familiar material, as well as rocking the new stuff from our 2nd full-length CD, "HOO-RAY!" Where can you buy a copy? I don't know! Stay tuned!
Saturday night found the "mini-mashers" (five of the nine usual mashers) playing flashmob-style for a flashmob! How meta. Harvest Noir is an event where hundreds of people dress all in fancy black, bring locally-produced food, and party. We infiltrated the crowd, posing as participants (thanks for the soup and the conversation, Erin and Tyrreny!) until we heard that ominously funky bass-drum-plus-sousaphone groove, then we pulled out our horns and put on a show. In the cold, wind, and rain. A good time was had by all.
On Sunday, it was back to IMOO at Umi Café in Ottawa, to hear Montreal improvising trio "Bean". With Marie-Claire Durand on keyboards (specifically on this occasion, on Megan Jerome's Wurlitzer), Mark Nelson on drums, and my old pal Joel Kerr on bass, they sounded amazing. In their second set, they invited a few guests up from the audience: Craig Pedersen on trumpet, then me on alto trombone, then Linsey Wellman on sax, and then all six of us for a little "two-minute miracle" to close the night. I'm so lucky to get to play with amazing musicians so often! I'm hoping to get a recording soon, which I will post on the website.
Also on Saturday, I deleted my facebook account. So long, everyone! I sure will miss helping someone I haven't seen since the seventh grade name the stray cat who lives under their porch. Honestly though, I did like facebook... at its best, it was like a giant pub with almost everyone I knew in it, and I could just wander over to see what they're up to these days. But I was becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the way my personal information (including browser history and who knows what else) was being collected. So I'm out. I anticipate a mass exodus over the next few years, followed my a MySpace-esque demise while everyone gloms onto the next big thing. With any luck, I'll miss the whole thing while drinking tea and reading.
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