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What a great time! Thanks to all who came out, performers and friends, for helping make it an excellent first Norfolk show. We’ll be back at the Cantina soon. Pics and videos are making their way onto Facebook. Now it’s back to rehearsals, recordings, and getting ready for the next show. Peace -Trey
PS – shout outs to Tyler, Ronnie & Russell for the fun Lampshade jams. Y’all is each one of a kind. Much joy.
Sometimes, when you’re sitting at a bar and drinking with your friends, Fate comes along and drops something heavy in your lap. Mallory and I had been planning to launch Longfellow Street in Norfolk sometime in March, with a well-thought-out show, considered and polished. Didn’t work out that way. See… we ran into Tyler. He’d already booked a night at the Colley Cantina, and asked us to help him fill out the bill. Now, we didn’t have an hour and a half set worked up with any particular set of musicians – but we HAD been playing with a bunch of talented people. So why not invite them all and do what we’d worked up so far? Sounds good to me.
So check it out – we’ll be doing three sets Tuesday night, January 24th, at the Very Friendly Colley Cantina. We’ll be starting with a set featuring our friend Ryan Collins on acoustic guitar. After we groove you with our Acoustic Americana stylins, we’ll take a break and make room for the LAMPSHADE 4, Tyler’s band of rock and roll hooligans – gonna be a blast of primitive rock and roll right in your earhole! We’ll follow it up with a set of original Longfellow Street sassy jazz-icana and foot-stompin’ honky-tonk, with Ryan back up with us on guitar, Ross Hartig slappin’ the skins and the inimitable Craig Lundgren on tenor and soprano saxophone. After we take a break and give Tyler a chance to once more stroke his strings, we’ll come back up to bring the night down with a hot and cool set of jazz standards and some of our jazziest originals, this time around featuring the hard-hitting duo of Andrew “Irwin” Irwin & Donna “Donna” Irwin on – respectively – tenor sax & flute and smokin’ hot electric jazzification guitar. Stick around for the Grande Finale where all seven of us krazy kats will hit the stage at the same time. You know you wanna!
Many thanks to Tyler for inviting us out, the Colley Cantina for hosting us, and to Mike Buenvenida for running sound.