WHEEEEE!!!!
Dayton OH 45402 Karl Wohlwendwww.columbusclassicalguitar.com503 East Weber RoadColumbus, OH 43202614.405.2300www.dbmusicproduction.com
Greetings!!!!
Let’s see…one of the most fun Maca (www.macahome.com) gigs ever, complete with a lovely party for an elder Catalan gentlemen, getting the St. Patrick’s season off to a great start with Fibb’n gigs at the Shamrock Club, Byrne’s Pub and the Josephenum, getting stuck on the road to Buffalo and Hamilton during the near-blizzard (apparently it didn’t last long enough to be a real blizzard) of 2008 - shoveling, shoveling and more shoveling, getting stuck in the airport coming back from a great gig at Cherokee Casino in Tulsa, including a complimentary stay in Minneapolis, (thank you American Airlines) working on recordings for Shotgun Wedding (www.myspace.com/shotgunweddingmyspace), Cajun Blue, and LJ Pennington, wrapping up another quarter at Otterbein, and trying to find time to practice for the five, yes, five programs I’m preparing before the middle of May…
Did I forget anything? Besides sleep, that is.
Ok, pay attention, ’cause there’s lots of fun coming up here:
Wednesday, March 26, 7:30-9:30 solo classical guitar at Maca Cafe (www.macahome.com), 5 South Liberty St in Powell
Saturday, March 29, 8:00, I’ll be a featured soloist, performing in Anne Wilson’s “Cincy Suite,” a beautiful second movement with the Columbus Guitar Society Members’ Ensemble. Huntington Recital Hall, Capital University (www.columbusguitarsociety.org) I’ll be playing on my new Gary Demos guitar (www.demosguitars.com)
Thursday, April 3, Happy Hour (5:45ish), Mac, Dan and I (from The Mac www.themacmusic.com) will be doing a short “acoustic” gig at Wendell’s Pub in Westerville (www.wendells.net/contact.html) This is a kind of “audition” for us, and we’d like to play there again sometime, so please come out and help us convince them to ask us back.
Friday, April 4, 8:00, I’ll be playing Takemitsu’s “Toward the Sea” and Ned Rorem’s “Romeo and Juliet,” both truly warhorses of contemporary concert works for flute and guitar. I’ll be playing with the incredible Dr. Kimberlee Goodman, as part of a really cool faculty recital program at Otterbein College (www.goodmanflutestudios.com/calendar.htm)
Sunday, April 6, 3:00 Kim and I will be playing the Rorem again for Women in Music in Columbus’ Huntington Concert Series in the Huntington Hall at Capital University. (www.goodmanflutestudios.com/calendar.htm), in case you missed it on the 4th, or in case you loved it so much that you had to hear it again!
Friday, April 11, 10-2, The Mac (www.themacmusic.com) will be playing a NEW VENUE!!!!! Cadillac Jack’s, at 1849 Stringtown Road in Grove City
Saturday, April 12, 9-1, Knot Fibb’n (www.knotfibbn.com) will be playing at Byrne’s Pub, our favorite place in Columbus.
Sunday April 13, 7:00, I’ll be helping out my buddy, colleague, and Mac Soundguy, Eric Van Wagner for his faculty “recital” at Otterbein College. This performance is a culmination of music that we’ve been working on for a really cool songwriting collective called VanGO (www.vangomusic.com). I’m excited to be involved in this, and the recordings have been really fun.
And a couple of other dates, in case you are going to be in and/or around York PA or Dayton OH:
Saturday, April 26, 7:00, I’ll be playing in York, PA with my dear friend, Demi Fair, on a concert series for the Unitarian Church at 925 South George St. Demi used to live in Columbus, and we played together alot during that time, but it’s probably been about 10 years since then. I’m so excited to be working with her again. We’re also planning to do a recording sometime in 2008.
Sunday, May 18, 7:30, I’ll be performing for the Dayton Mandolin Orchestra as part of my duo, Gruviera Armonico (www.columbusclassicalguitar.com/gruviera.html) at the Mathile Theater, Benjamin & Marian Schuster Center for the Performing Arts, 1 W. Second Street
Hope to see you around!!!!