The Enclave!
Wow, Sat. night at the Enclave last weekend was sooo much fun! Not that we didn't have fun at our last show out there (thanks to Alex Brandy and Tim Fry for making that gig work) it's just that we didn't have much audience - not this time! There were plenty of folks out and about on the main drag, lots or Harley bikes and riders comming and going, lots of pedestrian traffic and plenty of that traffic came into shoppe to chill out with the bean squeezins and the music. Thankfully, Neal Woolbright was able to join me for the entire evening and his talent and skill were and are soooo appreciated! It would not have been half the fun without Neal, he brought several mouth harps, his guitar, his ass kickin' blues riff and his powerful voice - turns out that Neal can play a skillful bass guitar as well! What a guy! So, we had a great evening and we made a few bucks, with Sarah the barrista kicking in many of those beautiful bucks herself - for that ample contribution we are most thankfull!! Looking forward to playing out there again soon, however, I don't think Neal will be able to make this next gig - Neal is a busy guy with a family and an energetic lifestyle and he is currently pulling together a full blown blues band and they will be busy with rehearsel in preperation for hitting the circuit. Thanks so very much Neal for making the Enclave gig such a satisfying jam session - and thanks as well to Alex Brandy and Mark Ruppe for stopping by to make jammy contributions :)

Xela Luv Mutha
As you may or may not know, Cleveland is losing the Xela man for the majority of the dog days of summer 2004 - the luvmutha is bound for the West Coast (armed with a tiny lil' black guitar that could fit into a knapsack - its neato) where he will be playing several 'full band' shows with Corbie and Superdute in LA - yeah, the Xela man is flying his band out to LA for gigs in July on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 16th and then he is off into the wild blue yonder for the Great American Singer Songwriter Experience!! Catch Xela, SuperDute, and Corbie up in the Heights at the Grog Shop this sat. May 29th at MIDNIGHT!!

Wednesday at Arabica Universtiry Circle
The open mic at Arabica U continues to be a satisfying jam event and with attendance varying from OK to really good we usually get an unexpected suprise or two - last night we had a whole bike riding club come in for refreshments, must of been at least 15 of em', and they all ordered drinks and food and sat outside for about an hour before riding off into the sunset. We also had some filmakers from BLUE VINYL TOXIC COMEDY PICTURES shooting about an hour of digital video for a documentary on global warming, that was fun, they were interesting types and the web site is not only informative but the design is really top notch, I hope they can use some of the stuff they shot. We didn't have any early jammers, save for Ryann Anderson and I love the way Ryann plays the guitar, he always gets a sweeeet tone goin' on :) Later in the evening Tony and Bill stopped in and they brought bass, sax, and keys with them - we had a real laid back late night bluesy jazzy jammy session - with Mark Ruppe sitting in as well. Thank for comming by last night, you guys really made it happen!

Steve2 and Friends at the Enclave SAT May 22nd

Sat. May 22nd - the same weekend as the Hessler Street Fair - I seem to remember asking Phill Evetz to play an opening set, and he agreed to do so, however I have not heard from him nor have I seen him around ... well, if you read this, Phill, can you give me a call? I am gonna ask a couple other folks about comming out to play, try to get some JAM ACTION lined up, nowhadaimeanvern? And so here we go into another weekend... later!

Hessler Street Fair cometh soon MAY 22 and MAY 23 with all the Musical Sweetness and BeerDrinkIness you can possibly imagine!!

Matt Gerovac sent me the MAY schedule for his band and duo, so I am posting it here -

Also: Ryann Anderson will be at university Arabica on MAY 22nd
Matt G. the following Sunday at Barking Spider (that's MAY 23RD)

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MATT GEROVAC IMPLOSION AND DUO SCHEDULE FOR MAY 2004
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Fri., May 14, 9 p.m. - THE ROBIN HOOD INN
504 E. Main St. in Kent.
I'll be joined by hand drummer Phil Torres - we're
doing an acoustic set openning for COURAGEOUS MINORITY
and XELA!

Sat., May 15 9 p.m. - THE LIME SPIDER
207 S. Main St. in Akron
We'll be sharing the stage with BURNING RIVER BAND!
The LIME SPIDER is a great venue - great art on the
walls and some funny B Movies on the tube.

Thurs., May 20, 9 p.m. - GROG SHOP
2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd. - Cleveland Hts.
The duo opens for Melissa Ferrick!

Sun., May 23, 3 p.m. - BARKING SPIDER TAVERN
11310 Juniper Rd. in University Circle
Come for the HESSLER STREET FAIR - www.hessler.org
STAY for the IMPLOSION! ! !
It's FREEEEEEE!

Another great weekend of beer drinkening and guitar playerning!

This was a particularly notable weekend of both - I had the supreme pleasure of joining Bobby, Julie and Hazel Brightenstien and a bunch of their really groovy friends (and their children) for a super-duper outdoor back yard patio jam party on Saturday, it was soooooo fun! We had a modest crowd of party goers all of whom were people I knew, most of em' Phoenix goers, movers and or shakers. And the beer was fabulous, some kind of Hopus Maximus I think - really yummy and dark and, uhm, hoppy. And, there was a rope swing to which the kids just loved, I liked it too it was fun to swing out over the sidewalk and the fire-hydrant! Wheee! Second only to the beer and the fine company, we had a really great set of jams with Brett 'Cleveland Slim' Beutera and Adam Hoopengardner and the rest of the Burning River Blues Band. Yep, good company, good beer and kickin' jams what more can I guy possibly ask for on a Sat. night? I leave that question un-answered at this time however ask me later about my Sunday afternoon, which I spent drinking beer and cleaning up the back yard - mothers day indeed, heh.