I saw an ad in the Galveston Daily News for a bar that wasn't around when I used to live here a dozen years ago. The name sounded awesome: The Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe. I checked out the website and when I saw the comment ' where lyrics still matter,' I knew I had found my place. It was more awesome than I expected and I made a bunch of new friends, performing and appreciating other performers, at the Wednesday and Thursday night open mics. This is my new favorite home away from home.
The owner, Wrecks Bell, starts off each show with some rockin' tunes. He's a funny guy.
Reggie offered to accompany me as I sang some original tunes and some covers of Traci Chapman, the Indigo Girls and Dido.
Dave and Tom from Wisconsin here working to rebuild Galveston and sharing tunes from their fave Minnesota band Wookiefoot.
Lee bartends and belts out some original tunes.
The band, Fiel, will be headlining here soon - the passionate, dual language performance was amazing.
Keith Miller had the audience crackin' up with original tunes like the one about his cat.
I am very excited about my new friend, Dave. We have an uncanny number of things in common like the same age, the same former profession (science teacher), similar spiritual trainings (Buddhist), same musical instrument, etc. He's offered to do some guitar harmony with me, adding some needed spice to my strumming (i'm more a vocalist than a guitar player).
