Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Americana in the Park


Just a heads-up to local readers—or any other readers who are dying to spend July 4th in Council, Idaho (admittedly, I suspect the latter would be an extremely small set of folks!): yours truly will be performing in Council City Park from 7:00-9:00 p.m. as a prelude to the fireworks display. I’m not promising any pyrotechnics myself—just not that sort of musician—but there should be some fun times with old blues & country songs, & a few old-time novelty songs thrown in for good measure. A couple of things worth mentioning: I’ve started to incorporate my old Windsor 5-string banjo into the act to punctuate things here & there, so there will be blues banjo for your listening pleasure—haven’t you always wanted to hear “Come On In My Kitchen” on a 5-string? Even more noteworthy (if slightly less certain)—there’s a good chance a very special mystery guest musician will be joining me for about the final hour of the show.

The 4th of July is without question Council, Idaho’s extravaganza for the year: a parade, the world-famous porcupine races, softball, music (the High School chorus also will be singing in the afternoon), the evening fireworks display put on by the Council Volunteer Fire Department, & more. Since I won’t be able to run around town covering all the events for the blog (not efficient use of energy the day of a show), on Friday the Wayback Machine will take us to Council’s July 4th 1998 so you can get a sense of this small town celebration.

Hope to see you there!

12 comments:

  1. Oh, if only! I would love to see you in concert, John and "Come Into My Kitchen" could be my theme song!

    Great poster too!

    Kat

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  2. Wish we could hear it! Have a blast - well, not literally, you know!

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  3. Hi Kat & Karen:

    That would be fun, but I know y'all will be with me in spirit. Kat: I'll think of you when I'm doing "Come On in My Kitchen!" Karen: Yes, bursting into flames is a drag while you're playing music!

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  4. are there really porcupine races? take pics! have fun playing.

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  5. Hi Jen:

    There really are porcupine races, & I'll have a couple of pix up on Friday. Thanks!

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  6. Pix? No, no - video, okay? Sounds great. Have a wonderful time.

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  7. If it weren't for the small matter of 4,600 miles I'd be there!

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  8. This sounds like a lot of fun. Knock 'em dead with the five string.

    randy

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  9. Hi Sandra, Dominic, Randy & Jacqueline:

    Thanks for your kind thoughts-- I'll be thinking of you folks!

    Sandra: Pix maybe (maybe even probably), video unlikely-- it's just too much to arrange.

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  10. Think of us all as your "Spiritual Audience". I don't think there is a soul who visits this blog who wouldn't give their eye teeth to be there.

    Kat

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  11. Thanks Kat! I'll certainly think of you folks that way.

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