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Saturday, July 31, 2004 What a wonderful night.  Granted, it started off rather uncertainly--I had to drive the 45 minutes to my parents' house in order to get my keyboard and was on my way back to Ann Arbor when my car decided to overheat; I had to wait for it to cool down before I could add "water" to the appropriate area, so I was late for the show at Espresso Royale. But the concert was great fun.
For the last week--ever since the Exchange (see photos)--it seems like the only people I've spent time with are dancers, and the trend continued tonight as half the members of my audience were lindy hoppers, none of whom had heard me play before. Next time I'm going to have to play something for them to dance to, so I guess I'll have to learn an appropriate song or write one (that in addition to the fiddle tune I promised my newly-formed band, which I'm not sure yet how to write). And on a random note, Carolyn discovered that Herman can stand perfectly well on his head.  It felt like it'd been a while since I played by myself; I've gotten used to Anna's violin adding to the sound, and, over the last couple of weeks, Dan on string bass. But I did have Alex sing a handful of songs with me, which mixed things up a bit. I think I've gotten spoiled--I hadn't played my keyboard in at least two months, preferring to drive to the Music School and use the grand pianos in the classrooms there instead, and I definitely missed the resonance of a real piano tonight.
After the concert, Part II of the night commenced with a mostly-blues dance at the rehearsal space of the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre. We'd been itching to dance since the Exchange--Wednesday nights at the Union, where we don't get to choose the songs, are always a letdown after dancing for an entire weekend to fantastic music--and when the last of us left at 2:30am, we were happy. Ian Stines: "Dancing takes over your life." ^ Top | 1:45 AM | | | 
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