« « Previous Post: Saving the Monkeywhale: Behind the Scenes | Next Post: Lucky: Behind the Scenes » »
There’s so much going on in Greensboro today you might not even know where to start. Just take a look at the ArtBeat schedule for starters. Music, theatre, art, history…it’s all happening today. With this in mind, we here at Monkeywhale thought we’d highlight 3 things happening today (all within several blocks of each other) that we certainly don’t want to miss.
The Carolina Blues Festival starts at 2pm at Festival Park next to Cafe Europa and the Cultural Arts Center on Davie St. Beautiful weather, good food, cold beverages and fantastic music all afternoon and evening. How can you go wrong? Some of the featured performers include Cyril Neville of The Neville Brothers, Diunna Greenleaf with Steady Rolling Bob Margolin, The Nighthawks, Adrian Duke, Bump and Logie straight outta Greensboro. We were lucky enough to attend this event last year and it was amazing. See how much fun people were having?
Around 8pm take a stroll down Elm St. to Elsewhere and grab a glow in the dark yo yo from the kind folks there. A procession will slowly make their way down Elm Street to City Center Park at which point some serious yo-ing will take place. Park lights will be turned off and hopefully a beautiful sight will emerge. Sure to be fun and wacky and generally silly. Look here if you’d like to see some serious yo yo action to get you inspired.
When 9pm rolls around you should most definitely begin working your way down to the Flat Iron. Greensboro awesomeness Citified will be having their cd release party. Josh Neas and Pinche Gringo will be starting things off for a night of local music that will make you proud of our fair city.
And that’s just a sampling. Get out there people. Log off of Facebook and leave your house. It will be well worth it.
« « Previous Post: Saving the Monkeywhale: Behind the Scenes | Next Post: Lucky: Behind the Scenes » »
Here’s something I’ve been looking forward to for months. Thanks in large part to our neighbor Heather and the kind staff of the Weatherspoon Art Museum we gained access to the inner workings of the art installation process and were able to interview Leo in our kitchen.
This was a collaborative effort as part of our [...]
Two songs just aren’t enough. They came to our kitchen, braved the cold and the drizzle in the back yard and ate Indian food with us before returning to Brooklyn, NY. Fear not, they’ll be returning to Greensboro on March 13th as part of our Monkeywhale presents series …
Many thanks to Jocelyn, Emily and Jeremy [...]
For the past 2 years monkeywhale and our kind neighbors have thrown a Halloween party. Nothing fancy. A couple of gazebos, a keg, strings of lights across the lawn and a few lanterns. We also project films on the barn that have fallen into the public domain … like, Nosferatu for instance. Creepy and a [...]
An Apache Relay is the pre-colonial version of a courier system. Chiefs would compete against each other to see who could have a message delivered in the shortest amount of time. A Relay of 8 scouts could hand a message over a quarter of a mile in 3 minutes. Apparently. Just imagine if they [...]
Lyndsay, a neighbor to our fellow monkeywhalers in Asheville, NC came to our attention due to the insistence of Dulci, Shane and Jason of Now You See Them (a prior visitor to the kitchen). Dulci and Shane actually accompany Lyndsay on this song along with the very talented Matt Williams.
Who is this Lyndsay Wojcik? (pronounced [...]
Here’s another song from a very special evening that began with a lovely set by Bruce Piephoff (a longtime friend who inaugurated the Harvey’s Kitchen series). Jim Avett is father to Scott and Seth Avett, of the Avett Brothers who were recently signed to Columbia Records.
The dotmatrix project is a monthly concert series which is [...]
May 9th, 2009 at 11:18 am
gearin’ up for a big old Saturday
http://ping.fm/Vseu9
This comment was originally posted on Twitter