Saturday rolled around & I didn’t really have much going on for St.Patricks Day (yeah, I’m lame I know!). I decided late in the day to head out & see some friends that were playing at The Twisted Vine in Derby. Heard some great music from Matt Miklus (http://www.myspace.com/mattmiklus), Sammy Blanchette (http://www.samblanchette.org/) & Adam Cyr.
And on Sunday, I had the extreme pleasure of seeing the wonderful Darrell Scott (http://www.darrellscott.com/) at Jesse Lee Church in Easton. This was part of a concert series to benefit the church. Local openers The String Fingers Bands(http://stringfingers.com/) played a great 45 minute set, then Darrell came up & just amazed the whole audience with his amazing guitar playing & incredible voice. And for an encore, Darrell brought String Fingers out to play ’Will The Circle Be Unbroken’ with him. You can check out video of that here, http://youtu.be/ZhnrokbutUI. I can’t really think of a better way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
Tuesday night of this week, I headed back down to The Outer Space for Honky Tonk Tuesday. BluesGrass (http://www.myspace.com/bluesgrass) was performing & I hadn’t made it there the last time they played, so I really wanted to check them out. Glad that I did, because they were really good. It was a great way to end the beautiful first day of Spring that we had.
So, here’s a shameless plug…since I mentioned them already, I need to let you all know that Lucky Souls Productions will be presenting The String Fingers Band on Friday night, March 23rd at The Outer Space in Hamden. Opening for them will be Patrick Coman & The Lo-Fi Angels (http://patrickcoman.com/) from Boston. I hope to see you all out for this show, because I know that neither one of these bands will disappoint & if I haven’t mentioned it in past blogs, The Outer Space has a fantastic beer selection & a really cool patio to hang out on. Doors open a 7:30 & the music starts at 8 p.m., $10 cover at the door. And that’s your suggestion for this week!
Get out & support the locals everyone, both the bands & venues!