August 2010

The Bluegrass festival at La Roche s/Foron

2 August 2010, 11:07

The Bluegrass festival at La Roche s/Foron is pretty cool, it’s in the center of this small town that is situated not too far south of Geneva (a beautiful area just north of the French alps), is free, it lasts four days and if the groups on stage aren’t enough for you, many of the bands can be found playing in the streets or while sitting around a table at a local café. This year the weather was sunny and warm, perfect for hanging out and getting fat on bluegrass music…
Homemade Jamz' Blues Band Ottawa Bluesfest 2009

3 August 2010, 10:32

Their guitars are wild, they groove and it's not that often that I really enjoy an electric guitar blues solo. Hope you do to!

The Homemade Jamz' Blues Band (and also: http://www.myspace.com/homemadejamzbluesband)
Show @ The Annamarie Andersen Galery

9 August 2010, 22:10

Annamarie Andersen has proposed to show a selection of my bronze and other objects from the past in a show with Italian artist and friend Graziano Marini.

It opens August 26th: vernissage from 17h00 to 20h00 – and runs to October 15th with the a finissage from 17h00 to 20h00.

So if you’re interested in my stuff from back then, it will be a good occasion to see a few pieces!
If You Like Ukulele Lady, Ukulele Lady Like You...

16 August 2010, 21:25

Ukulele Mermaid by rattlebrained

A winking mermaid plays the ukulele with the funny saying: Sweet Ukulele. A sunny t-shirt design for uke players and everyone else who enjoys these small, yet fantastic, stringed musical instruments!

With summer’s taking a change towards the cold and wet it was nice to imaging a beach with palm trees, fancy umbrella coated cocktails with an attractive ukulele lady…
David Holt Interview: Percy Danforth playing the bones

22 August 2010, 10:37

“David Holt interviews Percy Danforth in 1988”
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Uh-Oh, A Rubbed Through Zinc King

23 August 2010, 09:30

Uh-oh, this week I noticed that I had rubbed through a few ribs of the Zinc King 703’s! Not surprising if you use them like I do but unfortunate nevertheless… Still this isn’t the first time, and probably not the last, so to prevent it from getting worse I took it apart – easy:
- Pull out all 4 nails
- Remove the zinc rubbing surface and wash off whatever limestone sediment and gunk there is with fine steel wool soap and water
- Apply two composite epoxy glue for metal on the areas that have been rubbed through on the back side of the rubbing surface…