Showing posts with label concerts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label concerts. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

rockin' weekend

Oh boy, it's already Tuesday night and I'm just now blogging about the weekend?? It was a busy one! I canned peaches (I'm up to 12.5 quarts, that may be it for the year... smaller crop this year it seemed). I baked cupcakes. I worked on my big scrimshaw project. And I went to a concert on Saturday night!

Again, I have to give a big shoutout to the Sutter Creek Theatre. It's this quaint little old building in a cute little town owned by some super nice people that gets some pretty awesome musicians playing there, and never seems to get the publicity it deserves. People are missing out! I have never seen a show there that I haven't REALLY enjoyed, and I think I've seen maybe five different shows (some I see every year). It's very intimate, you're right there with the musicians, it's totally unlike a big concert. I love live music in small venues! Seriously. Someone needs to take me on more hot dates that include these sorts of things, because it rocks my socks.

Anyway... on Saturday night a group called Waterloo was playing there, and they are an ABBA tribute band. ABBA, you say? Yes I love love love ABBA. Blame my brother Douglas. He left the "ABBA Gold" CD sitting around years and years ago, and I thought "ha, ABBA, what a nerd." And then on a whim I played the CD and holy cow I'll be darned if I wasn't a nerd too. ABBA also rocks my socks. So I had a great time there, enjoyed the performance, enjoyed the setting, and by the time they played Dancing Queen at the end of the show we were ALL on our feet dancing along! And some of us (Jan!) were doing some pretty exciting chair-dancing through the whole show! ;-)



So really, go look at their schedule, join their mailing list, go see a concert there, you'll love it. And you might see me there. Next month, in fact! :-)

Saturday, December 17, 2005

O' Christmas Tree!


Yup, it is officially Christmastime here now, as though the insane candy making spree last week didn't confirm that! We got our tree today, which is, to put it lightly, huge. Very beautiful. Makes it hard to walk through the room... The decorations are almost all up, I still need to make one batch of cookies, and I still have to...uh, finish a project by the 24th. ;-) Oh yeah, and draw chickens too! Hmm.

I went to see A Winter Night's YEOW in Sutter Creek last night. Way cool, a floor-stomping good time! This is the second year I have gone to see that, and I wouldn't mind if this turned into one of those long-standing traditions. Lacking musical talent myself, I am in awe of people who can play not one, but a whole bunch of instruments...and sing too! They are totally awesome. It's several groups who perform there, and all in all I'd call it a "bluegrass-folk-old-time-cowboy-celtic-appalachian" sort of thing with a good dose of humor and political-poking-fun mixed in. Sounds odd, I know, I think it's one of those things you have to see to appreciate. I was a skeptic my first time too. ;-)