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Some pictures of places I've played, plus one of me playing to prove I'm still working hard, despite a lack of blog updates.

5/13/2014

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The Great Room at the Whiteface Lodge in Lake Placid before a wedding back in February.
The back of the Great Room. The bear in the canoe is my favorite part.
Peeking through the backstage doors of Hosmer Hall in Potsdam during a brass sectional rehearsal for an Orchestra of Northern NY concert.
Setting up for a quartet concert in Malone, NY back in April.
The tightest space I've ever played in. This was a late-April wedding in a TINY church on Lake George, with Alyson (violin) and Stephanie (flute).
Revolution Hall in Troy, NY. Old-city character (industrial chic?) meets even older music. (Bach)
A wedding in Roxbury NY, the day after the one in Troy. It was cold and blustery, but I was nice and dry on the porch.
The newly restored Strand Theater in Plattsburgh, NY for a concert by the Champlain Valley Voices May 10th. We were the first concert in the new space since the restoration!
The Strand in Plattsburgh. I've never seen silver gilding before, but it's beautiful!
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Valentine's Day lunch at Libby's Bakery Cafe in Ticonderoga, NY
Libby's is a great place to play.  Hardwood floors and a 15' ceiling gives it great acoustics, and the baking and packed house gives it great atmosphere.  My friend Mike took 70 pictures of me that day, and I used the first one.  Look at me go, turning pages with my left hand!
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Rain!

9/9/2013

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Wet weddings are good luck, aren't they?
I played a rainy wedding last weekend.  I was under a tent, but everybody else got a little damp.  I've had rained-out weddings before, where they switched to the backup location, but I think this is the first wedding I've ever had where it started dry, then got wet just as guests started to arrive so everybody stayed in their cars, then dried up again right before the ceremony started so they were able to stay with plan A.  

The clothespins you see at the bottom are clipped to my stand.  They're official tools of the trade for outdoor players, and are usually just as necessary as your instrument or bow.  I keep 5 or 6 clipped to by gig bag at all times, just in case.
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Can the same be said about wet cases?
My case was sitting on the edge of the platform, and some rain blew under the tent.  It got a little sprinkled, but fortunately once the ceremony started it didn't blow hard enough to get me wet in the middle.  
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The bride entered from the dock on the left via boat. No picture of that moment b/c I was too busy playing the wedding march!
Best of luck to the couple, Kyle and Lindsay!  May the rest of your days together be sunny and dry! 
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