Back at it.

 Many years have passed since I last wrote in this blog.  I have changed.  Times have changed.  The musicians in the local music scene have changed.  I spend less time going to shows now.  Mostly because I cannot afford them.  I have shifted more to the other side of the venue.  I am now frequently the one performing.  I've played music with a handful of really great people in several different bands over the last ten years.  I also continue to sing in the Angelica Encore Choral Ensemble.  I have been singing with with them for 13 years now.  On top of that, I have been performing at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival as The Bard Tedric Dagworth.  I've performed for six seasons there total.  There was a two year gap around the pandemic.  That was a thing too...  But I digress.  Recently, in the last six months, I have started performing at nursing homes and care facilities as well.  Although I do generally get paid at the nursing homes and care facilities, some of them have been volunteer performances as well.  I find it very rewarding to perform music in general, regardless of whether I am being paid or not.  That pretty much sums up where things are for me right now.

But enough about me.  I want to focus on a show from last Saturday night at Club Underground. I arrived early to catch all the bands.  A smattering of people were still wearing costumes, though it was two days after Halloween.  It might as well have been Halloween still for the care that was given.  Saturday night deserves some fun costume charades after all. 

 The opening band for the night was Super Hecking Valid.  They are a local punk rock trio that lay it down hard in your ear holes.  Their music got the night's energy started right. 

The second band of the evening was a last minute surprise addition to the lineup.  The well known local punk rock band The Stonedest brought their signature simplicity of form and solid musical intensity to the stage. The band is known for having a song included in the Troma film Return To Nuke 'em High.

The headliner for the night Tre Aaron and The Undergroove went on about 11:30pm to a sizeable crowd of indulgently dancing people in the dark and cavernous basement of the Spring Street Tavern.  Their jazzy versions of cover songs were enlivening and got many people dancing. 

Overall, it was a great night of music.  I am going to try to bring this blog back to life with periodic posts.  This one happened to be a show I didn't play in, but I might also do the same for the shows I participate in myself.  Regardless, I hope people enjoy hearing about local music from me again.