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HomeGrown Music Series
Guitar Circle of Chicago performed Sunday evening at the HomeGrown Music Series in Chicago. The performance space is the Kimball Avenue Church, a lovely and intimate room. GCoC was the first of three acts at the weekly concert series.
We performed as a quintet this outing with me, Adrian Fortis, Collin Landinguin, Tom McCarthy, and John Novak. We had a one week notice to prepare for the gig and this particular GCoC configuration had neither rehearsed nor performed together. No problem, time to prepare and get down to it! We met as a quartet for rehearsal on Saturday to determine and rehearse the potential repertoire for the event, then as a quintet Sunday afternoon to finalize our set list and polish it up.
Our set for the evening consisted of:
Those familiar with the Guitar Craft repertoire recognize this set has some challenging numbers. In addition A Lotus On Irish Streams and Mediterranean Sundance are new to our repertoire.
Following a 6:00 pm sound check, the team hit the stage at 6:30 pm. Our biggest concern was the lack of monitors; the sound in the room was wonderful, but we had to deal with the natural reverb of the hard walls and trouble hearing ourselves and each other. Nevertheless, we marshaled on and performed well, with a small wart here and there, which I'm sure the audience never heard. Except for Thrak, which underwent an absolute and utter derailment. Collin wisely called for a do-over which we executed nicely. The performance was full of energy and the audience was quite enthusiastic and responsive, always a wonderful situation. To my ears the applause after the second take of Thrak had a little extra oomph to it! As a side note, I saw Lyle Lovett and His Large Band do the same thing at a show this summer and the audience had the same reaction, an appreciation for the recovery.
It's always a pleasure to perform with Guitar Circle of Chicago, a wonderful team of musicians and great people. I am looking forward to the next chapter in our evolution.
We performed as a quintet this outing with me, Adrian Fortis, Collin Landinguin, Tom McCarthy, and John Novak. We had a one week notice to prepare for the gig and this particular GCoC configuration had neither rehearsed nor performed together. No problem, time to prepare and get down to it! We met as a quartet for rehearsal on Saturday to determine and rehearse the potential repertoire for the event, then as a quintet Sunday afternoon to finalize our set list and polish it up.
Our set for the evening consisted of:- Sun Music
- Eye Of The Needle
- Askesis
- The Growing Circle
- Mediterranean Sundance
- The Third Relation
- A Lotus On Irish Streams
- Asturias
- Thrak
- Trapiche
Those familiar with the Guitar Craft repertoire recognize this set has some challenging numbers. In addition A Lotus On Irish Streams and Mediterranean Sundance are new to our repertoire.
Following a 6:00 pm sound check, the team hit the stage at 6:30 pm. Our biggest concern was the lack of monitors; the sound in the room was wonderful, but we had to deal with the natural reverb of the hard walls and trouble hearing ourselves and each other. Nevertheless, we marshaled on and performed well, with a small wart here and there, which I'm sure the audience never heard. Except for Thrak, which underwent an absolute and utter derailment. Collin wisely called for a do-over which we executed nicely. The performance was full of energy and the audience was quite enthusiastic and responsive, always a wonderful situation. To my ears the applause after the second take of Thrak had a little extra oomph to it! As a side note, I saw Lyle Lovett and His Large Band do the same thing at a show this summer and the audience had the same reaction, an appreciation for the recovery.
It's always a pleasure to perform with Guitar Circle of Chicago, a wonderful team of musicians and great people. I am looking forward to the next chapter in our evolution.
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