Whoa! The Stompers just played a gig at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall today, and we're still high! How cool was that? One of the most acoustically perfect concert halls in the world - and they asked a jug band to play there!?! Yeah! The sound was fantastic, and there was a great crowd out in the theater despite the fact that it was a pretty rainy, dismal day. So thanks to all you folks out there who stopped for some funky goodtime music - some old Blotto fans, the Red Hat gals, plenty of the Stomper faithful and whole bunches of first-timers, too. Hope you signed our mailing list while you were there. (If not, just send your email address to livemusic@jugstompers.com, and we'll be sure to let you know where we're playing.)
We got to try out a couple of new tunes, too - a spiffy new arrangement of Jesse "The Lone Cat" Fuller's jug band classic "San Francisco Bay Blues" and fine rendition of that old Walter Brennan favorite, "Old Rivers." (Nice call on that one, Bowtie. It sounded just fine.)
All of the Stompers have been to see some great shows at the Music Hall, but none of us had ever had the pleasure of playing on that stage before, and it was a genuine treat.
In case you're interested, there are some other excellent shows on the Music Hall's upcoming concert schedule, including the David Grisman Quintet (Nov. 18), the Taj Mahal Trio (March 3 - hey, that's Wild Bill's birthday) and the fabulous double-bill of Doc Watson and Abigail Washburn (April 1). For a full schedule, log onto http://www.troymusichall.org.
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