spaghetti music

I've updated my birdwatching page. I will be playing background music this Friday at my church's spaghetti dinner fundraiser. This time, Amy King will be joining me with her violin on a few pieces. Feel free to bring your own accordion and empty wine bottle with a candle in it. Other Italian café stereotypes optional. If you're in the Elyria area (or even if not) I invite you to attend. It's a good meal for $6.00, and goes toward our church's general fund. You can come any time between 5:00-7:30 p.m. I usually play from 5-7. See the flyer here for more info. Oh, there's a tip jar too. Hint hint. And you can pick up one of my fancy new professionally-made business cards. :)

The second event is the Christmas concert for the CAC Singers (the group with whom I sang The Star-Spangled Banner at Jacobs Field). It's Wednesday, December 7 at 6:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. I'll be singing tenor on the a cappella songs. Plans also have me singing a brief solo at the beginning of White Christmas after a little piano improv (though it remains to be seen how much will be improv or simply ripped off another piano arrangement).

Also be on the lookout for a spring concert with Amy and me. It's just in the planning stages at the moment, but we got together a few weeks ago to sightread some violin/piano music. Amy is a member of my church and an excellent Oberlin-trained violinist. We work very well together; sometimes it's almost scary how we can read each other's minds while playing.