As I sit here on our back porch, I am visualizing our backyard. Siobhan is in it attending to the neat little flower garden she has developed in the center of the yard. As with everything she does, she handles the garden with great sensitivity. She does this with her mother when we visit her at the Clifton Springs nursing home, with the musicians who appear in our song writer’s series, and with just about every situation that comes our way. Her goal is always to get things just right, or as right as they can be. In our duo, although I play guitar, harmonica, and sing the songs, she is the real backbone of the group, relentlessly working towards getting our sound just right and keeping a great beat with her acoustic bass. She is truly the wind beneath my wings, and for this, I am truly grateful. These thoughts of mine have emerged because we just played our last three shows as a duo. It brought me back to twenty-six years ago when we first started out with it just being the two of us on stage. Since then, although we have had many great players join us, and we plan to continue inviting more great players to join us when they can, it still never gets old when it is just the two of us. Whether there are ten people in the audience or two hundred, we play the music because it is fun and we love it. So, with that said, here’s to Siobhan! May our next thirty-six years be even better than the first thirty- six! (We were together for ten years before Siobhan started playing bass.)
Regarding these last three shows, thanks to everyone who came out to support us. You have no idea how much we appreciate your being there. Special thanks to Chris, Diane, Kelly, and the rest of the staff at Warfield’s for being so friendly and accommodating last Wednesday. We were forced to play in the lounge again because of bad weather, but it did not dampen the spirits of us or those who were there to join us. We are hoping for good weather for our last show of the summer season on August 22. On Thursday, we played our monthly happy hour on the deck at The Timber Creek. Special thanks to Susie and Jill for just being the great people they are. Hillbilly is a football coach; so, we won’t see him again until late fall. Good luck with the season, Hillbilly! Special thanks to Jordan Jerome for joining us and singing a great rendition of “Country Roads.” The folks on the deck loved it! Finally, on Saturday, we returned to The Tipping Glass in the basement of The Naples Hotel. Special thanks to Heidi, Dom, and Karen for being so helpful and accommodating. We will be back at The Tipping Glass on October 6, and we’d like our friends to know you can have dinner in The Tipping Glass, something we did not realize.
Still reading? If so, have a great week and thanks for being in our lives!
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