When it’s 102 degrees on the patio, and you’re waiting for a show to start, beer does not magically remain cold. We need the brightest minds of our generation working on this, pronto.
Kenny Upstain and his partner, David Matsler, started up 20 minutes late. Fashionably late, I suppose, given the casual set up and masochistic temperature. They play a sparse version of country, strumming hard mad adding percussion by thumping the guitar.
When it’s 102 degrees on the patio, and you’re waiting for a show to start, beer does not magically remain cold. We need the brightest minds of our generation working on this, pronto. Kenny Upstain and his partner, David Matsler, started up 20 minutes late. Fashionably late, I suppose, given the casual set up and…
Today marks the first day the concert a day challenge feels like a grind. I didn’t expect the feeling this soon, but I’ll attribute the weariness to my introverted self wanting to turn off sensory input for a little while. At Scat Jazz Lounge I found out what Bob Ross would look like if he…
Green light bathes the stage. Why? Does anyone look good in green light? First guy (Randy Barnett) has at least 2 songs with whiskey references. Self aware and self deprecating “played for a room full of strangers / and they didn’t like our songs” He has a ragged country voice that works with the bluesy…
Sunday afternoons at Magnolia Motor Lounge are known as Sunday Fundays. A lineup of acts begin playing around 3pm and continue through the night. I showed up for the first act, Jake Robison, a folk-country singer who curls his lip delivering a song. He strummed his acoustic, sang songs of growing up and being a…
Downtown Fort Worth, on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday night allows for a little serendipity with patios, restaurants and horse drawn carriages. After two botched attempts to find live music, this combination led me to the Mercury Chophouse patio. My first attempt to check out live music in the evening resulted in a total fail:…
[Note: this is part of my “concert a day” challenge] Knowing I’d be busy early Friday evening at a scotch tasting, I needed a local show I could get to quickly. Thank goodness for living five blocks from Live Oak. I showed up still a little buzzy from sipping on 18 year old scotch for…
[Note: This is part of my “concert a day challenge“] For my first show, I scanned the listings on fortlive.com searching for something free. In the West Fort Worth section, I spotted a gig at Chubby’s Burger Shack. A little Googling checked out that Terry Rasor is a veteran Texas singer song writer with a…
Sometimes we need projects to challenge us. Make a thing a day. Learn a word a day. Appreciate an aspect of life a day. The point is to do something and be persistent. For the month of August, I’m going to see a concert a day. That’s 31 live music experiences during summer’s hottest month.…
Through the month of September, I designed a tie a day. A day early, below are the results. Click to enlarge and check out some of the details. I prefer minimalist designs, solid colors and a contemporary look. Some designs could have any sort of color variation, so I only did a few and then…
“Creative centers provide the integrated ecosystem or habitat where all forms of creativity–artistic and cultural, technological and economic–can take root and flourish.” Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited. Approximately $300,000 will be cut from the Public Arts budget in Fort Worth, a 25% reduction from 2012. That 25% reduction will multiply into…
