Let's catch up

What's that you say? Am I playing in a quaint cafe nestled in a rustic Tuscan village [see photo]? Why no, it's me at my last gig at Lago Trattoria in Meredith, NH right on Lake Winnipesaukee (yes, I did have to look up how to spell that.) I appear to be concentrating deeply, though I'm only play a D chord. Hm.

The big event since my last post was taking part in the Plowshares Coffee House Songwriting Contest in Phoenixville, PA. When E. and I left the house we had a fresh 4 inches of snow, but by the time we got to PA it was a lovely spring day. We stumbled upon a great restaurant for lunch (The Fine Diner in Clinton, NJ).

The venue was a stone Quaker meeting house - a beautiful open space with plaster walls and wooden benches on three sides and lovely acoustics. Alas, I did not win. Except in the sense that we're all winners!! The grand prize winner, Kierstin Gray, brought the house down. Definitely one of the highlights of the night.

In other music news, I got a sweet little review in this Month's issue of Minor 7th and my song Broken was the Single of the Day on March 11th. Also nabbed a couple other finalist spots in some upcoming songwriter competitions. Speaking of competitions, have you been watching American Idol? Yeah, me neither. I am obsessed with Battlestar Galactica, however, which is not a competition, but simply a science fiction television show that is occasionally a thinly veiled allegory for the war in Iraq.