Resonant Constellation

A friend of mine recently (Saturday, February 28) invited me over to a local pub to play with a small group for a party being held for one of his friends. I met a few people I haven’t seen before, and a few with whom I’ve played many times. The fallout of this is that we had so much fun playing together, we’re going to make this a weekly thing-starting with house sessions and moving up to bigger and better things as membership/interest grows.

The nice thing about all of this is that it gives me a good place to work on my playing: other sessions are too crowded and most of the people don’t listen to what others are doing. This is particularly a problem with guitar: some people completely dominate the sound with their ‘accompaniment,’ playing louder than everybody else. This is highly contrary to my style of playing, so I rarely get to play guitar-until this session. I think people were truly amazed that:
1) There is an amateur guitar player who understands accompaniment (at least a little).
2) That I play guitar (I’m really known as a mandolin player).

I had a hell of a lot of fun, and I look forward to continuing this session. Next week I’ll try to get a recording of the action and post it here.