Got to see some great music this weekend, all at the Black Sheep Inn. After a Thursday night CBC Radio taping, Danny Michel gave one of the quirkiest shows I've seen him... or anyone ... do on Friday night, with everything happening from a malfunctioning lamp that got tossed around the stage to an audience member wailing on harmonica on "Tennessee Tobacco" to a unique special guest for the encore of "Ashes to Ashes" (can I have a shout-out for Levon, the coolest 10-year-old in the world).
Opening for Danny Michel was Michelle (Red) April, who did quite well for herself. Some interesting guitar style, a great harmonica player, and a lovely voice. She's got some potential.

He opened for Joe Grass, who I had first heard at a Vinyl Café concert, and who wowed the crowd (oooh, a rhyme) with his slide and fingerstyle playing.
Seeing someone so young with such prodigious skills on the guitar always makes me feel two things at once:
- Go home, quit my job, and practice practice practice
- Go home, get a hatchet, and chop all my guitars into little pieces of kindling
I do wonder, though, if Grass's apparent shyness / introversion is a consequence of working and playing the way he does or whether that sort of playing attracts people who are naturally shy. Hm.
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