Hello, friends! Rob here.
I’d just like to take a little time today to talk to you about Keith Spera. Keith Spera is the music writer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. He is a very nice man who said some very nice things about us before French Quarter Fest. And, at least partially because of those very nice things he said, there were like 80 batrillion people there to see us on Saturday. Old people and young people. New faces and familiar. Inappropriately drunk and inappropriately sober.
The FQ Fest set was one of the most fun performances we’ve had in a while. There was a great crowd on a beautiful day, and we even had a little help from our dear friends Michael Girardot and Natalie Mae. We spent both evenings entertaining in Baton Rouge, a city that finally seems to be coming together for us. All in all, it’s been a nice time.
This weekend is going to be epic. Tomorrow we’re playing the mainland in Pensacola, then Friday and Saturday we’ll be at Bamboo Willie’s on Pensacola beach. But there is an exciting twist! Saturday, we will also be playing during the day at Crawfest on Tulane campus! This means we are going to have to drive back from Pensacola on Friday after the show, play in New Orleans on Saturday, and then drive back to Pensacola that afternoon. It’s ping pong, but the table is over 200 miles long, the ball is six dudes, a van, and a trailer full of equipment, and the paddles have no appropriate analogue in this awkward metaphor. Nobody is ever going to sleep and we are all going to smell terrible by the end of Saturday. Ah, the sacrifices we artists make…
Lastly, congratulations go out to our dear friends The Rebirth Brass Band, who just released a new CD last night! My head’s still pounding from the festivities, so I’m gonna cut this entry off here. See you around, everyone!
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