The band has been busy closing out our outdoor festival season. This weekend we played two fall/harvest festivals here on Long Island. I guess
The Homegrown String Band is the perfect harvest festival band! Apples, pumpkins, hay, banjos, fiddles, flatfoot dancing, apple pie, and crisp fall air! It's nice to see folks out enjoying the nice fall weather before winter and cabin fever sets in. Saturday we played at Deepwell's Farm Fall Festival; we thought this was going to be a music festival, but we were sandwiched between a magic act and a talent show, we were basically background music adding atmosphere to the various fall activities going on around us. Sunday we played a sit down concert in a listening room at the Paramus, NJ Library, and Monday we did another fall festival in Great Neck. At the Great Neck festival we had the privilege of splitting the entertainment duties with a great traditional jazz band,
The Banjo Rascals. This talented, quartet, featuring soprano sax, trumpet, bass, and tenor banjo played some great ragtime, dixieland, and jazz standards. Next weekend's
Oyster Festival in Oyster Bay, NY will be our final outdoor performance of the year. Hopefully we will have another nice fall weekend, and then it's indoors for the coffeehouse, library, and tavern circuit.
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Sorry I missed you this season. I've had a busy season with the local election stuff. I'm not sure what will happen next year.
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Well, we are now officially done with our outdoor shows for 2009. The first day of the Oysterfest, Saturday, was cold, high forties, and 20mph winds brrrrrrr! We managed to play our set and suffered only minimal amounts of frostbite. When we woke up on Sunday we were greeted with even worse conditions, low to mid forties with high winds and rain. We were scheduled for three sets that day but the organizers of the festival wisely decided that the weather conditions were too dangerous for everyone involved. Aside from the weather, the Oysterfest experience was great; first class sound system and soundmen, great food, music, and interesting exhibitors. We now have a couple weeks off from performing, so we will be using the time to enjoy the beautiful northeast fall foliage (raking leaves and cleaning gutters :)
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