notes: 8/8/09, Kitchen Concert

(photos by Lisa Rich)

Joe Durniak, Brian Huggins, and Justin Pope

Joe Durniak

Christina Ward

Brian Huggins

Stephen Maglio

Stephen Maglio

Justin Pope

Kitchen Concert: August 8th

You know how sometimes, when you're sitting at home staring at the walls or watching reruns of "Mad Men", you start to wish you had a whole mess of interesting people over, listening to live music while eating a hearty, home-cooked meal? Well, someone thought that very thing, and now we're making it happen in Lambertville.


The Kitchen Concert on Saturday, August 8th will bring together the talents of Christina Ward, Mike Falcone, Steve Maglio (all of The Bluejay Theory), and Justin Pope, who will play their original music in various groupings throughout what is shaping up to be quite an exciting evening. This first installment of what we hope will become a tradition will be graciously hosted at the home of Mr. Maglio, in the picturesque environs of Lambertville's south-west corner.

The music and dinner begin at 7 pm, entry is a $15 donation to cover the costs of food and miscellany, and at this moment, only prior ticket holders will be admitted to the show. As you'd imagine, seating is limited, so if we still have some room, we may open up some day-of spots, but please contact Justin at justinpopemusic@yahoo.com if you're interested in getting tickets!

Also - if you happen to have a large room in your home that you would like to fill with music and new friends, by all means send us an email! We'd love to have this continue throughout the year.

notes: 2/19/09, John & Peter's

Just pics for this one, sadly. I updated the firmware for my recorder the day before the show, which apparently causes all the user's custom gain/comp/limit settings to reset to default, so it came out clipped and distorted. Adding insult to injury was the revelation that this and other minor gripes I have with the device were just fixed in the new model. Bastards.

I do, however, have audio from this week's show and the 3/7 Triumph show, so I'll post those as soon as they're cut up into tracks. For now, enjoy some snapshots from the 2/19 show at John & Peter's, featuring:

Melanie Snyder - cello/backing vox
Zach Sweet - cello
Steven Nocar - guitar/vox
Steve - electric guitar
Lisa Rich - backing vox

(from l to r: Melanie, Justin, Steve, Lisa, Steve, Zach)

(Steve & Zach)

(Steve)

(Justin & the Steves)

(Justin & Steve)

(Lisa also runs the boards)