Tags: Brandon Miller, Hurricane Hanna, Jimmy Page, Jubilee Center, Turning Point
The Fuzzy Lemons vs. Hurricane Hanna
Wow, what a fun and crazy gig! We played at The Turning Point, Hoboken’s newest eatery, located on the banks of the scenic Hudson River. The event was an afternoon-long Ice Cream Social to raise funds for Hoboken’s Jubilee Center. It was a great gathering of Hoboken’s family-based businesses, from Creative Groove Studio to Garden Street Music.
Of course, the Fuzzy Lemons’ interests were fully represented: Music Together (Dave), Mr. Kipley (Kipley), Musicology (Dana) and ToddlerTainment (Maiken) all had flyers on the table. We’re a package deal!
The Turning Point isn’t very big so we planned a 45-minute “unplugged” set, bringing only mics and a monitor for our own vocals. We rehearsed with acoustic instruments the week before and re-arranged the set list to emphasize our non-electric skills (in other words, we took out the songs that needed my wah-wah pedal). It wasn’t our first unplugged set, so we kinda felt like we had it under control.
What we couldn’t plan for was the weather.
Hurricane Hanna rolled inexorably up the East Coast late in the week and smacked into North Carolina at high speed, sending torrents of rain all the way up into New England. Hoboken, as usual, was half-submerged. So we were some soggy Lemons as we rolled into the Turning Point for our show. (As often happens to me, I had a birthday party before the set and rolled in 20 minutes before showtime! Thank goodness Dana was available to pick me up!)
Photo courtesy of Kipley Wentz
The rain kept a lot of people away but I think the turnout was still very good. I don’t know how the numbers came out, but we saw a lot of groovin’ kids and parents checking us out between face-fulls of ice cream. We sounded tight, we enjoyed our performance and it showed. And one dad brought me a super-cool Jimmy Page t-shirt, so that was nice.
The other cool thing about this show is that we introduced our brand-new drummer, Brandon Miller. He’s a cool Hoboken dad who brings his li’l daughter to Music Together, so he was a natural fit for the Fuzzy Lemons. He has learned all of our songs in a tearing hurry, which is good because our next show is the big fund-raiser in Tenafly next weekend.
Things are moving along rapidly!
Dave
-- Weather When Posted --
- Temperature: 68°F;
- Humidity: 72%;
- Heat Index: 68°F;
- Wind Chill: 68°F;
- Pressure: 30.07 in.;