Virtually every conventional outlet for live music has been shut down for the last six months. Those conventional music events are likely to be one of the last things to return whenever the pandemic eases up.
In the meantime though, ever since warm weather arrived lots of musicians have turned to very small driveway and backyard concerts as the only way they can play together these days,
This afternoon I was lucky enough to be one of a dozen or so people that got to drop in to hear live jazz with the Austin McMahon trio on my neighbor Austin’s Upper Falls driveway.
We’ve got at least another month of warm weather so keep this driveway music coming – it’s nearly all the music we’ve got until the corona dust clears.
Many thanks to Austin and Dana for the gracious invite
How wonderful! It’s also impressive they were able to play in this awful heat.
When warm weather comes, I always enjoy sitting out on the “front stoop” to practice, usually the tenor banjo (yeah, yeah, I can see you all Googling “banjo jokes”). My street doesn’t get a lot of foot traffic, but every so often somebody will happen by and listen for a few minutes, even talk to me for a bit. What with the pandemic, I haven’t been able to rehearse with my bandmates in months, and actual human contact in general has been rare, so this summer it’s been particularly gratifying to sit ‘n play. Unfortunately, the torrid weather for most of the past several weeks has made me less motivated to do so.
@Esteess – If you’re going to sit on your front stoop and play, what better instrument than a banjo? Wish you were my neighbor.
Another reason we should be allowing people to regularly close a block of their street to through traffic. One lawn becomes a stage and then you have a street to spread out and listen.
Great jazz and blues combo on Harrison Street this past Saturday. I really don’t think the odds are good of having full blown village days next year. Perhaps an alternative could be five or six lawn, driveway or whole street concerts in each village on the month and day the whole Village Day would have been taking place.