Although it's been a balmy 67 degrees in Denver for the past two days, winter is still dormant somewhere over the mountains and will show its hoary face again. The break in the cold seems to coincide with a small break in performing the Frogs have this week. For the first time in a month or so, we don't have at least 2 shows per week. That is, until Monday when we play Sancho's in Denver, that bastion of dreadlocked revelry on illustrious Colfax.
This lull in performing has allowed for other activity to take place around the house and elsewhere, oftentimes leading to more performing, but a deviation from the norm regardless. We get to rehearse intensively, leaving our equipment set up to play "at our our every whim", as Steve put it in an interview the other day. Several of us are sitting in with other bands in Boulder and the mountains. In an extraordinarily weird situation, my sit-in time with our Boulder buddies Springdale Quartet has been lengthened because their opening act, Bill "Kobe" McKay, has been put in jail after a show he was playing near Vail. We get to cook (clean) and sleep on a schedule resembling normalcy.
The down time is refreshing, but not leisurely. For/Sure Production's work pace is at record high, as our artwork and website will hopefully be available to you, the public, in the next couple weeks. Making our artists happy, our venue happy and gathering sponsorship dollars are all of top priority right now, in order to make our festival a success.
Check back in coming days for the announcement of exactly which artists will be jamming out at Mountainside Mardi Gras, and the last couple installments of Lay It Out, So You Can Play It Out.
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