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FLORIDA ORCHESTRA DOES FRANK SINATRA

The Florida Orchestra (FloridaOrchestra.org) has a special “Pops” series, and this past weekend, they did “The One and Only Frank Sinatra”, which, of course, was wonderful. Jeff Tyzik was the guest conductor, who has a long history of big band stuff and he did a tribute to Tommy Dorsey, with Janes Pugh on trombone, and […]

GREEK FESTIVAL

Continuing with festivals, last Friday our gang attended the local Greek Festival at the Greek Church on Swann. We go every year and usually are never disappointed. This year however, they had the live music (great band) outside in the tent, instead of the main hall. It was cold, but we danced out there anyway, […]

MUSICAL WEEKEND

Life is good! The 3rd of July found me at a party across the street from my daughter, with great food and good conversation with 2 guys who had traveled as much as me, and comparisons flew! We had to leave tho so Mick could go to work, so I went on to play music […]

OLD BLOG ABOUT MUSIC

11/1/2010 @ 7:55:32 am by creatingbuttons.com

TWO MUSIC JAM Once a month, lots of musicians in the Tampa Bay area get together to pay Irish music, at a – what else? – an Irish Pub! In this case , it’s Four Green Fields, down in Hyde Park. There are “leaders” of the group, but people […]

BYE BYE BIRDIE

March19, 2010. Lynn and I went to the Largo Cultural Center to see the Eight O’clock Theatre’s (www.eightoclocktheatre.com) version of Bye Bye Birdie and we weren’t disappointed. The choreography was excellent, most of the voices were good. One of my favorite songs (that I use when I write shows) Got a Lot of Livin’ To […]

ACCORDION GETS WORKOUT

June 1 2010. There’s a small group of us that play music 2 times a month, taking place at one of our houses. There’s a couple of fiddlers, fluteists, guitars and me on accordion. We mostly play Irish music, as one of our goals is to be good enough to play with the […]

JUDY GARLAND BEYOND THE RAINBOW

(May 7, 2011) Because our Greater Seder group did The Wizard of Schnozz, Lynn and I (both Judy Garland fans) went to a local production by the Salerno Theatare Company called “Judy Garland Beyond the Rainbow – a tribute concert event (Salernotheatre.com). 3 gals and a guy paid tribute, some JG songs, some just of […]

FLORIDA ORCHESTRA – WICKED DIVAS ON BROADWAY

(November 28 2010) Sounds good? IT WAS! Two gals, Erin Mackey and Julia Murney sang marvelous songs from all my favorite musicals, which couldn’t have been better. The orchestra introduced the evening with the Overture to Gypsy and parts of Carmen. I have never been disappointed by the Florida Orchestra. Too bad they aren’t better […]

HUGE WEEKEND CONTINUES

Originally posted 11/24/2010 @ 9:37:25 am by creatingbuttons.com It started with the Fall Ball on Friday night, continuing with contra dancing on Saturday, interspersed with Patty’s birthday party, and back to dancing, well worth the driving as it was a great band and caller. Sunday morning the dancing continued with a marvelous out doors breakfast […]