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Flanfire (Duggan Flanakin) is bringing LIFE to Austin music -- and telling the world how sweet it is!
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
HAAMing It Up! (Thanks, Wendy!)
Austin musicians lined up all over town on Tuesday to raise money for the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians - and they got help from lots of local businesses in the process. We lift our cups to all who participated or donated, but reserve special praise for recent birthday girl (and, no, she did not jump out of her own birthday cake!) Wendy Colonna, who was the featured interviewee on the front page of the Daily Texan (where she acknowledged her own use of HAAM's services), our gal showed up at SIX AM (along with Brennen Leigh and others, I am told) looking good for live local television on the rooftop at the Whole Foods world headquarters.
Harmoni Kelley with Beth Garner -- drool, dudes!
This writer did NOT make it to Whole Foods for those ceremonies, but we DID get over to 26 Doors (a cool little shopping center next to Waterloo on 38th Street that features the revamped Santa Rita restaurant, which used to be Tres Amigos before being significantly upgraded by the new owners). Caught the last bit of Sara Shansky's set (she's out with The Late Fees tonight at The Chain Drive on Sixth Street) and the full sets of Rick Hornyak and la belle Beth Garner. Hornyak is a transplant from far western Pennsylvania, and until last year was a member of the Austin-based Dealers. His next Austin gig is October 13 at Baby A's on Barton Springs. The "lovely and talented" [or low-down and terrifying?] Miss Garner closed her set with a cover of Ray Wylie Hubbard's "Snake Farm." Her next Austin gig is on October 13 at Maggie May's - and the day after she opens for the Derailers at Gruene Hall! [I will not mention that Harmoni Kelley blessed Beth at the gig or that she is playing with the Small Stars in at Rudyard's in Houston on October 28th.]
After the good times were over at 26 Doors, the next stop was the Evangeline Cafe - where Brennen Leigh (who had after all been up for the SIX AM Whole Foods kickoff) had turned her Tuesday gig into a Gram Parsons Hoot for HAAM. Special guests included Ted Roddy (who was nearly upstaged by his handsome offspring), Jane Bond, Chad Tracy, Leo Rondeau, Brian Jefferson, Chico Oropeza (husband of Polly the waitress and a heckuva mandolin player), and the sublime Tommy Spurlock on pedal steel.
Miss Jane Bond; Ted Roddy with Superman!
The show went so well that Brennen is now thinking about a MAJOR GRAM PARSONS HOOT -- and what better time than November 5, which would be Gram's 60th birthday!!!!! [Note to self -- since you are a MAJOR GP fan, make sure Brennen contacts Neal Flanz and Earl Poole Ball, both of whom played with Gram over 35 years ago!] While all the songs were good, the highlight of the evening had to be Roddy's versions of the Flying Burrito Brothers' versions of the classics "Do Right Woman" and "Dark End of the Street," from The Gilded Palace of Sin.
Brennen Leigh and Leo Rondeau making
beautiful music together (on Grievous Angel).
HOT FLASH!!! The Band of Heathens will have their brand-new CD available at tonight's gig at Momo's -- and they open for Leon Russell at Gruene Hall this Saturday!
Austin musicians lined up all over town on Tuesday to raise money for the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians - and they got help from lots of local businesses in the process. We lift our cups to all who participated or donated, but reserve special praise for recent birthday girl (and, no, she did not jump out of her own birthday cake!) Wendy Colonna, who was the featured interviewee on the front page of the Daily Texan (where she acknowledged her own use of HAAM's services), our gal showed up at SIX AM (along with Brennen Leigh and others, I am told) looking good for live local television on the rooftop at the Whole Foods world headquarters. Harmoni Kelley with Beth Garner -- drool, dudes!
This writer did NOT make it to Whole Foods for those ceremonies, but we DID get over to 26 Doors (a cool little shopping center next to Waterloo on 38th Street that features the revamped Santa Rita restaurant, which used to be Tres Amigos before being significantly upgraded by the new owners). Caught the last bit of Sara Shansky's set (she's out with The Late Fees tonight at The Chain Drive on Sixth Street) and the full sets of Rick Hornyak and la belle Beth Garner. Hornyak is a transplant from far western Pennsylvania, and until last year was a member of the Austin-based Dealers. His next Austin gig is October 13 at Baby A's on Barton Springs. The "lovely and talented" [or low-down and terrifying?] Miss Garner closed her set with a cover of Ray Wylie Hubbard's "Snake Farm." Her next Austin gig is on October 13 at Maggie May's - and the day after she opens for the Derailers at Gruene Hall! [I will not mention that Harmoni Kelley blessed Beth at the gig or that she is playing with the Small Stars in at Rudyard's in Houston on October 28th.]
After the good times were over at 26 Doors, the next stop was the Evangeline Cafe - where Brennen Leigh (who had after all been up for the SIX AM Whole Foods kickoff) had turned her Tuesday gig into a Gram Parsons Hoot for HAAM. Special guests included Ted Roddy (who was nearly upstaged by his handsome offspring), Jane Bond, Chad Tracy, Leo Rondeau, Brian Jefferson, Chico Oropeza (husband of Polly the waitress and a heckuva mandolin player), and the sublime Tommy Spurlock on pedal steel. Miss Jane Bond; Ted Roddy with Superman!
The show went so well that Brennen is now thinking about a MAJOR GRAM PARSONS HOOT -- and what better time than November 5, which would be Gram's 60th birthday!!!!! [Note to self -- since you are a MAJOR GP fan, make sure Brennen contacts Neal Flanz and Earl Poole Ball, both of whom played with Gram over 35 years ago!] While all the songs were good, the highlight of the evening had to be Roddy's versions of the Flying Burrito Brothers' versions of the classics "Do Right Woman" and "Dark End of the Street," from The Gilded Palace of Sin.Brennen Leigh and Leo Rondeau making
beautiful music together (on Grievous Angel).
HOT FLASH!!! The Band of Heathens will have their brand-new CD available at tonight's gig at Momo's -- and they open for Leon Russell at Gruene Hall this Saturday!
