Last Fridaynight, a fine few performed performings at th house o' me, Ms. La Casa Grande Colectiva. Our good friend Anna hosted, & it went something like this:
- False Statement Bulletin, Jacob
- The Solution to the Problem btw Israel & Palestine, JARband
- Playing (with) Policy, AnAndR
- The Squirrel's Nuts, elizaBeth
- Bagatelle No. 1, Snow Leopard & Jacob
- Duke of Uke & His Novelty Orchestra, performers: Dave, Lorene & ?
- Rigadoo, performers: JP, Erin, Charlie & Kendra
(I performed in two of these; I'll give them their own entries & embed video for you shortly. One of them you can already viddy
here.)
I think it went delightfully well! We filled our living room, kept our guests in popcorn & organic grape juice, & followed it w/ a "talk back session" & a bonfire in th garden. I enjoyed having a deadline to finish (drafts of) my two projects. Hooray, etc!
This makes my third La Casa house concert. On my very first visit to Urbana, almost a year ago - March 27, 2007 - I came to this same house & performed Cümbüş songs (old blog entry about it
here). That launched my interest in School for Designing a Society, which I attended in th fall. That fall semester culminated in a house concert in December, mentioned in
this blog entry. Now, having spent time living & doing "independent study" another concert has come & gone as a ritualistic marker of time & work, an opportunity to show traces of thinking & engage in togethering nowness. Hooray!
More house concerts (I predict) will happen here, & I do hope some not-so-far-away friends will make it down here to see. (I miss you!)
Ten thousand loves,
Andrew
