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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!