That's Annie.
Despite the six inches of snow that fell on the Twin Cities overnight, nine people came out to McRae Park to play jazz, plus a couple of folks who came to listen! Today we had Gene (drums), Wes (sax), Annie (vocals), Vicki (vocals), Dick (vocals), Reno (a first-time vocalist at the workshop), Tim (guitar), another guitarist whose name has dribbled out of my memory before I got to the keyboard, and Jim (piano and clarinet). We were absent a bassist today; we made do, but jazz really needs that interaction between the bass and drums. The walking bass is the essence of jazz.
In the past four weeks participation has been up quite a bit, which we love to see. This workshop has been going on for 30 years and needs musicians to turn up to keep it alive and growing. We hope that some will become regulars- maybe you! I've been asking people how they found out about the workshop, and about half discovered it through the Craigslist ad I've been running once a week. So we'll keep that up! The rest either knew about it already (some were former participating stopping back to see old friends) or heard about it through one of the usual suspects. Spread the word!
My camera batteries were dead, doggone it, so no new pictures today- these are from Don Lehnhoff a few weeks ago. This is Wes:
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