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Piano Improv

I dunno...maybe it was the piano burn. Here's the next entry in the piano theme category.

The Mollys Rise Again!

In Tucson, like many other towns and cities across the country, musicians tend to perform in various bands, picking up work where it can be found. For a brief blip in time, from 1992-2000, there was a group of five musicians that came together, became a working band and gave it all to the one group.

The Mollys toured all across the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand with their infectious neo-roots Irish Tex-Mex sound that was unique to these particular five folks stepping on the stage. It was a sound that could not be repeated and a stage energy that picked you up and carried you off.

This Wednesday, March 17th, the band gets together for its 20th Anniversary at Tucson's famed El Casino Ballroom. It could be the last time ever. Maybe not. Who knows? I do know that we're gonna have a blast and raise the roof a little...

The Mollys around 1993

As we are now...

Piano Burn 2010, The Video

Piano Burn 2010!

Dan Davis, a member of the Determined Luddites and Big Galoot, has been putting on his annual Piano Burn for some years in the desert just a few miles outside of Tucson. Dan works on pianos for a living and the ones that see no hope of musical revival have quite a different and noble fate in store.

This last Saturday was our first Piano Burn...stay tuned as I shot mostly video footage that will be uploaded after I get a chance to tweak it some. The footage includes a performance of Dan Davis and Dan Hostetler's band Big Galoot playing their crazed surf-hillbilly-jazz as the pianos burn on and on and on...

photo by Gary Mackender

photo by Connie Colbert

Film Fest Sonora

The Festival de Cine en el Desierto presents Sed de Cine in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico this Saturday, February 27. 389 Miles: Living the Border has been selected for its premiere Sonoran screening, a film in which I contributed much of the music.

The song "Alejandro" from Happy Homestead was used as the credits role and also released as a music video. Check out the video here.

Trololo, y'all!

Mardi Gras!

The Carnivaleros tore up the Boondocks Lounge Tuesday night. We had guest bassist Karl Hoffmann, now living in Nerja, Spain, all night long. Marty Olson of Lawrence, Kansas joined us on Iko Iko playing the shakers!

Bisbee Bound

Our good buddy Marty Olson was in town for a few days and along with our ex-pat friends from Spain, we took a day trip to Bisbee (Arizona) by way of the Singing Wind Bookstore just outside of Benson, the Lucky Horseshoe for lunch (pulled pork sandwich with fries...ewwww) and the Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park. Unfortunately, due to the state of Arizona's horrible financial straits, the museum will be closing on March 29 of this year, along with several other State Parks.

Here's Marty fondly enjoying a moment on the streets of Bisbee.

Tucson Weather Day

We had an amazing array of weather activity last Wednesday in the Old Pueblo. Click on this link for a quick movie of the entire day...make sure to wait for the end! Thanks to the University of Arizona's Computer Science webcam.

NOTE: I disabled the link recently as they only leave the video in place for a week...bummer.

Tabou Combo from Haiti

I was reading about this band on Carl Finch's Brave Combo web site and thought I'd share this clip. This is a music known as "kompa". Enjoy!