Pacman and Packin and the Bands

The middle of the week was spent hosting some great musicians (from my last post) who needed a place to stay during a rest over day from their tour. Heres to the long Haul, hauled it back from Providence, managed to get my phone number from a friend, and called at 11:30 pm hoping for somewhere to stay. They hung out for a couple days, played some music, relaxed, went hiking, and had a show on WHUS  with Washboard Pat that we hooked them up with. It was great to get to know the guys, get to hear them play more, and to make a southern musical connection. 

       Todays picture is from a lovely seller on etsy that you can find here on misterrob. I love this kind of artwork.

    So far my weekend has consisted of a lot of cool and un planned events involving music. First a friend of mine at WHUS radio invited me and Truckman to see a free thats right FREE blues show at Black Eyed Sally's in Hartford. A real cool music venue that has a lot of primarily rock and blues shows that I've always wanted to go to. WHUS was sponsering a live broadcast of this band The Delta Generators that hail from CT and just competed in the International Blues Challenge in in Memphis TN, and they came out as one of the top 10 bands out of hundreds from all over this country and elsewhere. The concert took place at 10:00 am and was broadcast live as an advertisement for a show that they are doing this Saturday at 9:00 pm same venue, same town, same good music. Killer guitar playing, loose and groovin drums, an excellent bassist, and the voice that comes from Craig Rawding is big and booming, you can tell that it comes easily from his gut. I'm coming to find that a lot of the singer I like the best have this quality of big vocals that come from a deeper place than just sitting in the throat. 

    After the show in Hartford we drove to the Reggae Fest at Wesylan University. It always seems that events at Colleges are poorly attended, as the afternoon wore on attendance picked up a bit. Some musical aquaintances of ours, a couple of musicians from Club D'elf performed and were great as usual. If you check ou the link above to Reggae fest you can look at the other bands as well. Buru Style was big but tight, we left partway through their set. 

     To top off the night we bought a boxing match on the tellie (yes I'm a rather large and very closet boxing fan) between Manny "The Pacman" Pacquio and Ricky "The Hitman" Hatton. It ended in a second round knockout with Hatton laying in the ring. Tough fight to watch, but I can't beleive their athleticism and dedication. Thats always worth watching no matter what sport it's in if you ask me.