Celebrate Lunar/Chinese New Year

The Ululating Mummies @ Balliceaux, 203 N. Lombardy St., Saturday, Feb. 5, 10:30 PM

Goings On

photo Arthur Stephens

We had a grand time with everyone @ the Happy Lucky Cabaret @ Ellwood's Cafe. For photos and video of the merriment click HERE. Roll out the barrel! Thank you Khalima, Emily and Paul for joining us. (photos right)

This Saturday, January 29th, Pippin and Paul Watson will be performing @ Balliceaux with And the Wiremen. Doors open @ 10:30, Admission $5

Also Happy Lucky will join The Ululating

Mummies for a Chinese New Years Celebration on Saturday Feb. 5. @ Baliceaux.

Ellwoods Cafe

Happy Lucky will play @ Ellwood's Cafe, corner of Ellwood and Thompson in Carytown, this Saturday, January 22, from 6 until 8 PM. We will be joined by musicians Emily Avesian, baritone sax/clarinet and Paul Watson cornet. Khalima will perform Oriental Dance.

On Sunday Khalima and friends will perform at The Byrd Theatre at 2:30 PM. Click HERE for details. And Heather Addley will be posting an after party @ Balliceaux. Click HERE for details.

Pippin and Paul will be playing with And The Wiremen @ Balliceaux January 29. Click HERE.

And look for The Ululating Mummies Chinese New Year @ Balliceaux Feb. 5.

a few of our favorite things from 2010

playing with Karen @ the Farmer's Market Southside (photo Jennifer Watson)

a gift from Steve Williams

we love House Parties

and Birthday Parties

and Chanukah Parties (photo John Shire)

and writing and recording music, coming soon... (design Jennifer Watson)

and performing with Khalima (photo Otway Chalkley)

marching with The Ululating Mummies (photo Catherine Farmer)

playing with Emily (photo Otway Chalkley)

and Bob

participating in the Musicircus (photo Amy Alt)

more parties!

Mom and Apple Pie and Fairies

recording and sharing our music (design Jennifer Watson)

playing with Jonathan and Harry (photo Aimee Oliver)

graduating VCU students with The Ululating Mummies

playing at the Crossroadster (photo Charles Sugg)

getting the whole gang together

performing @ Ellwood Thompsons great room (video Arthur Stephens)

playing at the Listening Room

bringing guests into the studio to record (video Christopher Hibbon)

Mummies New Year!

Dave, Pippin and Barry will be playing with the Ululating Mummies @ Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden on New Years Eve Day, Dec. 31. The event starts @ 2 PM. The other mummies' on this gig will be Danny Finney, Robbie Kinter, Stephen Williams and Paul Watson.

The event is included with garden admission fee and includes the Garden Festival of Lights.

Rehearsals have been jocular, boisterous and full of buffoonery. It's great to reconnect with band members for this annual event. In the coming year we hope to perform more often. Look for us @ Balliceaux in February.

Also Danny and Robbie will be playing with Rattlemouth @ The Nile New Years Eve beginning @ 10 PM.

The Listening Room

POSTER: Graham Neal

Happy Lucky performs this coming Tuesday, October 19, 2010, at The Listening Room, 1133 W. Franklin St. Richmond VA. Click HERE for a map.

Parking is available on the street and there is a parking lot just east of The Listening Room on the right and a parking deck on the left.

Doors open at 7:30 and the show begins at 8:00 sharp. There are three bands and we are playing last. The first two bands are Exebelle and the Rusted Calvacade and River City Band. We should begin our set at about 9:15.

Admission is free. There is coffee, tea and pastries courtesy of Kendra of Ipanema and Williams Bakery. Donations are welcomed.

Click HERE for The Listening Room Facebook page.

Click HERE for The Listening Room, Volume XII Facebook page.

And The Wiremen

Click on photo to enlarge

First of all, before I tell you about And The Wiremen, we really enjoyed performing for everyone at Ellwood's Cafe last Friday. Special thanks to our guests Emily and Khalima and to Ellwood's for having us.

There were lot's of jokes about all the paparazzi present. One of them, Otway, put together the piquant photo above which he calls "The Press Corps". I don't think I've been part of an event that was so well documented! I guess we have Khalima to thank for that. For more videos and photos visit our Facebook page. Click HERE. You'll find Otway's blog there as well as photos by Charles Sugg, Heather Addley, Arthur Stephens and a video by Doug Hayes.

Karen Sokhol, accordion player and writter was present and included us in her blog Accordion to Karen. Click HERE.

Onward... I know this is short notice but Pippin is performing with And the Wireman at The Listening Room, Tuesday, Sept. 21 , 7:30 till 10:30 PM. Also performing will be Paul Watson and former Richmond resident Blasco. Click HERE for more info.

We're Back!

photo:Heather Addley

Happy Lucky will perform @ Ellwoods Cafe on Friday, Sept. 17 from 8 - 10 PM. Oriental dancer Khalima will be our guest. It is also rumored that Emily Avesian (photo right) will be playing with us. Admission is free.

It's good to be back. Look for us at Ellwoods Cafe, O'Toole's Pub and Crossroads Coffee...

Also this Thursday, Sept. 16, from 9-10 PM we will be part of the MUSICIRCUS (photo right) @ the Visual Arts Center, 1812 W. Main St. This event is organized anually by Brian Jones and is inspired by a concept created by John Cage, in which a whole bunch of musicians play music simultaneously in the same space. If last year is any indication it is sure to be a boistrous, cacaphonous hullabaloo!

We continue working on our upcoming CD "Lucky Buddha". It should be available sometime this Fall. Stephen Williams and John Winn (photos right) have both come into Pippin's studio to help out.

I (Barry) performed solo on the street and loved it. Dave just got a battery powered amp for his bass... so look for the trio on the street...

Out to Lunch

Happy Lucky is "out to lunch" until the middle of August. During this time we will be working on our new recording Lucky Buddha, which will be available in the Fall. This will be the second in our series of CD's with collage art by Jennifer Watson.

It has been fun seeing everyone at the Farmers Market when we play at The Cossroadster. We'll return in August.

It' been a pleasure meeting and working with Khalima.(photo right)

And it's been gratifying to ride around town and hear our CD Carnival of Sound played on WRIR. Last month we made their top ten list of most played World Music. Thank you WRIR. Click HERE for list. It's humbling to be in the company of the other musicians on this list.

Also thank you to Style and Richmond Magazine for favorable mentions this month.

See y'all in August. Hopefully the well stays capped and we get some more rain...

Ellwood's Coffee/ Lewis Ginter

Happy Lucky plays twice this week. Saturday evening, July 3, from 8 - 10pm we perform @ Ellwoods Coffee with our friend Khalima. She puts on a great oriental dance floor show!

Remember Ellwood's doesn't serve just coffee but wine, beer and food too. Click HERE for menu.

On Sunday July 4th we will be @ Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens from 1:30 - 3:30pm. The Fourth of July event is from 1-4pm and admission to the garden is free. We play down near the water park and the tree house, so you might want to bring a swim suit.

The Crossroadster and Happy Lucky are taking a break from the Forest Hill Market for a week or two.

at the Crossroadster

Happy Lucky will be back at The Forest Hill Market Saturday June 19, from 10 - 12 noon. Look for us at the Crossroadster (photo right). Karen Sokohl (above) will come by and play a couple of tunes with us at 11. She is an accordion student and needs some experience playing in public. We'll be there to catch you if you fall Karen!

Great show with Khalima (photo right) at The Republic last week. For some video that Doug Hayes shot, click HERE. She will be dancing with us at Ellwoods Coffee July 3rd, 8 - 10 PM.

Khalima and Happy Lucky

video: Doug Hayes

Khalima has invited Happy Lucky to be part of her show @ The Republic this Sunday, June 13, 8 - 10 PM. Admission is free. Here is the link to the Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=119517194746204&ref=mf

We will not be at The Crossroadster/Forest Hill Market this Saturday, but hope to return on June 19th.

Otway Chalkley made some fun and wonderful photo collages from our performance at the Crossroadster last week. You can see them on The Otway Blog (click).