My goodness! What an evening it was! The thirteenth session of Evening at Frank’s (EAF) was a fabulous hit! And, like always sold out!
Pictures above: Caleb and Wolfe
Wolfe and Caleb were outstanding! I’ve got to stop adding exclamation marks to my sentences, but it’s difficult because I want to shout it out to everyone.
Again we had a successful session. First Caleb (a young philosopher who can make deep conversations about things as thin as finnish pancakes) opened with four of his new songs which resulted in the sales of all ten CD’s that he brought. His CD was recorded two years ago. The songs he sang still need to be recorded but his haunting style have been recorded in everyone’s memory for a long time.
A funny thing was that he came to my place dressed kinda funky style. I try not to be judgemental but I was thinking, “Gee Caleb, what’s that all about”? He had on chains and a hat and his shirt was fully unbuttoned and showing his abs. He told me that he was dressed for Halloween as Tommy Lee, and was accompanied by his girlfriend Pamela Anderson (actually Mandy).
After Caleb’s opening came Wolfe (another philosopher) who played his first solo concert in ten years (where people actually give money). And he did it with power and soul. Sometimes he apologized for singing/playing too loud (he was totally unplugged), then everyone shouted “no, it’s all good!”. So he replied with an old saying which goes something like this – “Singing is good for the soul, and singing loudly is really good for the soul”.
As I imaged, Wolfe was riveting and passionate but still humble. He mixed a few cover songs with many of his originals. He started creating atmosphere using the high steady pitch of a bronze singing bowl then got us all chanting "Ohm". In addition he got us involved in a call/response with an original Kirtan song to invoke various Hindu Gods and generally get everyone into a blissed out frame of mind.
He then followed with more Western World type songs, and as I told the audience, he invariably can arrange a cover song in such a manner that sounds much more appealing than the original. And he demonstrated that with even a song as simple as “Row, row, row your boat”.
Wolfe must record! (Sorry Wolfe, but an exclamation is demanded there LOL).
Actually most of the concert was video recorded by Gareth Evans, who is putting together a DVD of the evening. Gareth has a zeal for live, original and unplugged music, and I’m so glad that he’s recorded many of these concerts.
After Wolfe’s set list, he took on a few more requests performed both on his guitar and cello.
Then the evening (at that point more like night time) continued with more notable events. Bill Houston, a well established local songwriter/singer (and yet another philosopher type) dropped in after the show to participate in a musical jam. In fact a number of people arrived after the concert to jam along.
Before the jam, Gareth recorded a new song of Bill’s (called Hold On) with a bunch of us playing along. It was so cool to have been part of that. All in my tiny living room!
Then the jam started and we played until after 4:00am. (Hmm, did we really play until 4:00? Not really because the daylight standard time was invoked right in the middle of our jam. The clock moved back by one hour, so we kinda only played until 3:00am LOL).
During this jam I felt more at ease. I was always a bit nervous that the music, drumming or foot stomping was keeping my neighbors awake, but this was the first time they came. Yahoo! They were dancing and stomping along with us! By the way, they told me that they never were disturbed by my previous music sessions.
We brought in $271 plus $20 from a friend who could not attend. So half will go to the Foundation for Fighting Blindness and the rest to the musicians. Thank you everyone.
All the EAF’s bring their own magic and charm. And this, like the others, is one to remember, friends making new friends, people bringing snacks, laughter, conversation, and most of all live music, music, music. With a soul full of joyful memories I want to say “thank you” Wolfe and Caleb..
See you all at the next Evening at Frank’s.
Thanks
-Frank Pollari
Again we had a successful session. First Caleb (a young philosopher who can make deep conversations about things as thin as finnish pancakes) opened with four of his new songs which resulted in the sales of all ten CD’s that he brought. His CD was recorded two years ago. The songs he sang still need to be recorded but his haunting style have been recorded in everyone’s memory for a long time.
A funny thing was that he came to my place dressed kinda funky style. I try not to be judgemental but I was thinking, “Gee Caleb, what’s that all about”? He had on chains and a hat and his shirt was fully unbuttoned and showing his abs. He told me that he was dressed for Halloween as Tommy Lee, and was accompanied by his girlfriend Pamela Anderson (actually Mandy).
After Caleb’s opening came Wolfe (another philosopher) who played his first solo concert in ten years (where people actually give money). And he did it with power and soul. Sometimes he apologized for singing/playing too loud (he was totally unplugged), then everyone shouted “no, it’s all good!”. So he replied with an old saying which goes something like this – “Singing is good for the soul, and singing loudly is really good for the soul”.
As I imaged, Wolfe was riveting and passionate but still humble. He mixed a few cover songs with many of his originals. He started creating atmosphere using the high steady pitch of a bronze singing bowl then got us all chanting "Ohm". In addition he got us involved in a call/response with an original Kirtan song to invoke various Hindu Gods and generally get everyone into a blissed out frame of mind.
He then followed with more Western World type songs, and as I told the audience, he invariably can arrange a cover song in such a manner that sounds much more appealing than the original. And he demonstrated that with even a song as simple as “Row, row, row your boat”.
Wolfe must record! (Sorry Wolfe, but an exclamation is demanded there LOL).
Actually most of the concert was video recorded by Gareth Evans, who is putting together a DVD of the evening. Gareth has a zeal for live, original and unplugged music, and I’m so glad that he’s recorded many of these concerts.
After Wolfe’s set list, he took on a few more requests performed both on his guitar and cello.
Then the evening (at that point more like night time) continued with more notable events. Bill Houston, a well established local songwriter/singer (and yet another philosopher type) dropped in after the show to participate in a musical jam. In fact a number of people arrived after the concert to jam along.
Before the jam, Gareth recorded a new song of Bill’s (called Hold On) with a bunch of us playing along. It was so cool to have been part of that. All in my tiny living room!
Then the jam started and we played until after 4:00am. (Hmm, did we really play until 4:00? Not really because the daylight standard time was invoked right in the middle of our jam. The clock moved back by one hour, so we kinda only played until 3:00am LOL).
During this jam I felt more at ease. I was always a bit nervous that the music, drumming or foot stomping was keeping my neighbors awake, but this was the first time they came. Yahoo! They were dancing and stomping along with us! By the way, they told me that they never were disturbed by my previous music sessions.
We brought in $271 plus $20 from a friend who could not attend. So half will go to the Foundation for Fighting Blindness and the rest to the musicians. Thank you everyone.
All the EAF’s bring their own magic and charm. And this, like the others, is one to remember, friends making new friends, people bringing snacks, laughter, conversation, and most of all live music, music, music. With a soul full of joyful memories I want to say “thank you” Wolfe and Caleb..
See you all at the next Evening at Frank’s.
Thanks
-Frank Pollari
