The Ululating Mummies will play at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens for the New Years Eve Family Frolic on New Years Eve day. The exact time of the Mummies performance is yet to be decided but we will perform two sets between 2 and 5 PM. The holiday lights will still be on display in the garden if you want to make a night of it. There will also be crafts and the making of noise makers.
The Mummies this year will include old time members Paul Watson, coronet and Stephen Williams, guitar.
Many new (old) pictures have been posted on the Facebook Ululating Mummies Fan Page. Thanks to all that joined the page and became members. Click HERE to see that Facebook page.
Happy Holidaysfrom theHappy Lucky Combo. Thought you might enjoy this video. Thank you Larry Yates for passing it on.
The Ululating Mummies play on New Years Eve day at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens for their New Years Eve Family Frolic. When we find out exactly when we play I'll let you know. It will be two sets between 2 and 5 PM. Also that night the garden lights will still be up if you want to make an evening of it.
This year the Mummies will be joined by old time members, Paul Watson and Stephen Williams.
Check out The Ululating MummiesFacebook Page for lot's of new photos.
Also if you haven't visited the Happy Lucky Combo website in a while clickHERE. We 're almost at 10,000 visits!
And what a great Years End Party last week! Thank you to everyone. We will be having another Yiddish Cabaret in the near future. See Facebook Page for photos.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
The Happy Lucky Combo will be celebrating HanaramakwanzamasSeason with a Year's End Party this Wednesday Dec. 16 @ O'Toole's from 8:00 - 10:30 PM. Admission is FREE. There will be lots of musical guests including, Emily Avesian, baritone sax, Bob Jacobs accordion, Marcy Horwitz accordion (count 'em), Miles Barnett violin, Isadora and Odessa Bless vocals... it is even rumored that we may have a visit from John Winn clarinet andDaniel Clarkmelodian. Wow!
The Happy Lucky Combo has had a happy and lucky year. It has been gratifying to be part of the Southside Renaissance, to perform for gracious audiences and to have been able to play with some of the city's most... well... playful musicians. Thank you all.
The HaPpY LuCkY CoMbOreturns to Ellwoods Coffee this Saturday evening, December 12, from 7 - 9:00 PM. Admission is free. Ellwoods serves beer and wine as well as food and coffee. We love playing there because the room has great acoustics. Admission is FREE!
Pippin is playing again with And the Wireman @Balliceaux. They will perform Thursday Dec. 10 @ 8:30 PM. Paul Watson will also play.
We'll be back at O'Toole'sNEXT Wednesday, December 16. We're expecting a visit fromBob Jacobs, accordionista and Emily Avesian, baritonista. Expect some holiday music.
The photo above is The Happy Lucky Combo with guest Bob Jacobs, at our last O'Toole's gig. It's always exciting to play with Bob. Dueling accordions?...well let's just say we were lovin', not fightin'. Bob will be back with us on Wed. December 16.
Fans of Emily Avesian will be pleased to hear that she will come out and play with us this Wednesday, November 25th, atO'Toole's.
It is also rumored that Nick Lewis will come by.
Also, Wednesday is Mile's (Pippin's son) birthday, and we'll be celebrating. Hopefully he'll bring his violin.
Pippin's Nov. 12th performance with And the Wiremen, was wonderful. They'll be playing again in Richmond soon...
And don't forget, Thanksgiving night WCVE will broadcast the 2009 edition of Virginia Arts and Letters Live, of which we were a part. This years performance was hosted by Carl Kasell.
Davearranged the Happy Lucky Combo song, Yemaya, for 150music students from Midlothian Middle School and James River High School. See video above.
The HaPpY LuCkY CoMbOis back at O'Toole's this Wednesday, November 11th, from 8:00 until 10:30 PM. Our guest this week will be accordionista Bob Jacobs (photo right). Dueling Accordions!
Last week we had a delicious time "cooking withCarter" (photo right) and, as if on cue, Nicholas Lewis (photo right) came by and offered up dessert. And it was yummy! I went by O'Toole's today and the cook wants more! (for real)
As of the publishing of this blog, I can only say that it is rumored, that this week we will have a visit fromNick.
Upcoming events include a Thanksgiving Eve airing of the Virginia Arts and Letters Live performance, of which we were a part, and a Dec. 12 performance at Ellwoods Coffee. And the inevetable release (escape?) of our CD.
Also, Pippin is perorming with And the Wiremen on Thursday November 12, 8:30 PM @ Balliceaux, 203 N. Lombardy St. ( the old Bogarts). Pippin's been working hard in preparation and says it's been challenging learning the new rhythyms he describes as Brazilian-like. Local musician Paul Watson is a member of this group that is based in NYC.
We've volunteered to be part of the Patrick Henry Charter Schoolauction by offering to have our musical services put up for bid. This is an on-line auction. Hint, we're perfect for a holiday party.
"I saw shadowy figures in a long tunnel or hall, and then light, and the music of The HaPpY LucKy CoMbO".
Harry Kollatz, Flaneur
Thank you to everyone who came out to the chaotic and cacaphonousMusicircus. I'm sure everyones experience was different. For us it was part fun, and part enlightening near death experience. Can't wait till next year! (clickHEREfor photos by Dean Christesen)
The Happy Lucky Combo is back home atO'Toole'sthis Wednesday, October 28, 8 - 10:30 PM. This week we have special guest Carter Blough (photo upper right) on the bass fiddle!
The way it's been working out the trio plays a set and then we're joined by others. Last week it was Emily Avesian (painting right), baritone, and Jeff Adams (photo right), tenor. I can't wait to see who and what happens this week. See you there!
Our friendJohn Winn will have his composition "The More Things Change" debuted by the Oberon String Quartet on Tuesday, October 27, 7:30 PM @ St. Christopher's School Upper School Chapel, 711 St. Christophers Rd.
What is a photo of John Cage doing on our blog? Let me explain.
This year The Happy Lucky Combo will be performing as part of our local Musicircus. Musicircus is a performance concept originated by John Cage.
He explained it this way:
"The idea of this composition is nothing more than an invitation to a number of musicians, who perform simultaneously anything or in any way they desire."
Brian Jones is the organizer and is bringing together a multitude (around 60) of musicians. It happens this Thursday, Oct. 22, from 9:30 until 10:00 PM at The Visual Arts Center. The performance is free and open to the public.
Thank you to everyone who came out last week to O'Toole's. Emily brought her friend Jeff Adams, "the demon of beat street", to sit in (photo left). We hope to have Jeff back soon.
And Happy 30th Anniversary toRostov's Coffee and Tea! That was a great party and the best smellin' gig we've been on.
It's sad to have the Folk Festival come to an end, but The Happy Lucky Combo will be tapping the music keg @ O'Toole's this week, Wednesday, October 14, from 8 till 10:30 PM.
Thank you to everyone who came out last time at O'Toole's. It was a wonderfully "spirited" carnivalesque crowd. Seemed like everyone won a prize.
Bob Jacobs, the accordion player from Gypsy Roots sat in with us, and he was great. Emily Avesian also came by with her baritone to help fill out the Happy Lucky "big town sound".
And thank you to the sophisticated Cafe crowd who came to hear us at Ellwoods Coffee. We've been invited back and will let you know more.
People are requesting more button accordion songs. We've added one more for this week. It's called "Beer".
And what a time we all at had the Richmond Folk Festival! Thanks to those who came by to see Pippin and I perform with The Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra at the "Southside Stage".
And thank you Venture Richmond and all the volunteers! The party's over... until Wednesday.
They perform at 1:00 PM on Saturday and 2:00 PM on Sunday at the Parawing in the Family Area.
The Orchestra will also be present at the Gourd Shack, next to the Parawing, propagating their vast, if questionable, knowledge, from noon until 3:00 PM each day.
In a rare appearance on the Northside of the James River the HaPpY LuCkY CoMbO will bring it's "Carnival of Sound" to Ellwoods Coffee. "The only band in town to give away prizes", they will have their "Cart of Good Fortune" stocked with curiosities from exotic and faraway places... like China.
The show starts at 7 PM and ends at 9 PM. Admission is FREE. Ellwood's serves wine, beer and food.
I'm just sayin', you know, if you want to have fun...
A while back Pippin and I made a vow to play with people who are better than we are. So continuing in that spirit, Bob Jacobs (photo above) will join us this Wednesday at O'Toole's. Bob plays locally with Gypsy Roots and has had a long and fruitful accordion career. My favorite story is when he played for Lawrence Welk at a book signing.
The Happy Lucky Combo will also be playing at Ellwoods Coffee this Saturday, October 3. This is our first gig there, so we hope a lot of friends from the North side of the River will come by. Admission is free. It is smoke free and beer and wine are served. We play from 7:00 until 9:00 PM.
RUMOR: Emily Avesian, baritone sax, will join us at O'Toole's.
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Quotes
"Don't wipe the sweat off your instrument. You need that stink on there. Then you have to get that stink into your music."
Captain Beefheart
"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."
Igor Stravinsky
"Hermes stole Apollo's cattle, and with one of the stolen cows entrails and a tortoise shell, he created the first lyre."
Myth of Hermes, patron saint to musicians and theives
"Federal law provides severe civil and criminal penalties for the unauthorized reproduction, distribution, rental or digital transmission of copyrighted sound recordings."
Title 17, United States Code, sections 501 and 506
I play a musical time machine. A 19th century industrial, futuristic, Victorian contrivance called an accordion. With this Jules Verne-like contraption I travel the world and it's epochs.
