4 Things You Could Do This Weekend

Friday: Evan McHugh’s Show at Eddie’s Attic

 

Saturday: Tats for Tots party at my house to raise money for our trip to East Asia next month.  (Our team will be doing volunteer work in orphanages and children’s camps over there.)  Professional tattoo artist Jamie Pierce will be doing the honors and will give half his fees toward the trip.  There are only a few slots left; please contact us here to get a slot and directions.  Also, anyone is welcome just to come and hang out.  We’ll be going from noon to 11pm and will have refreshments.  Want to sign up for a tat?  

 

Saturday: Meghan Coffee opening for Edwin McCain at Chastain Park.  If Meghan brings it like she did last week at her album release concert (and she will), then this show will be amazing; great venue, too!  

 

Sunday: Browns Bridge Community Church in Cumming.  My Summer Vacation is the name of the new series beginning at BBCC.  I’ll be tinkling the ivories, so come see me.

Better late than never(?)

Wish I’d posted this sooner.  If you like Atlanta’s own Evan McHugh’s music (and I do), go see the show Friday night.  And tell us about it here. Or just tell us what you think of his music.  I hear Matthew Perryman Jones is no slouch either.

I keep meeting great musicians

By Michael Johnston

I’ve lived in Atlanta for something like 19 years and that includes neighborhoods inside and outside 285 and circles of friends that keep expanding and linking back to each other in uncanny ways. What’s remarkable is that since our metro area is so large and spread out with everyone claiming Atlanta from Conyers to Douglasville, Canton to McDonough, and points beyond and in between, there really is community among musicians. The sense of community is growing in light of so many questions around what it means to make a living doing music and who can be trusted to help show the way. Older and more seasoned music types are reaching out to younger up and coming types as the music business landscape shifts, giving a unique opportunity to players, producers, writers and

music industry support people to lean on each other and do good business and good work - making life-giving art. Creativity among musicians calling Atlanta home is booming. I keep meeting new people with above average talent who are contributing inspired playing and fresh songwriting to Atlanta’s culture and beyond. Danny should appreciate what I’m about to say…this reminds me of a time when Atlanta began to be home to a sports dynasty in the form of a baseball team where executives, players and fans began to come together to build something that was, at the same time, uniquely Atlanta’s and everyone else’s, too. Every baseball fan out there had to marvel at what the Atlanta Braves accomplished - the greatest pitching rotation ever assembled, with hitting and fielding to match. No, I don’t see an Atlanta “Super Group” band on the horizon. What I see is a music community developing as it has never existed before in Atlanta. I see a movement that can uniquely belong to Atlanta and everyone else who is moved by the kind of inspired creativity that is gathered here. Whether it’s through a long time good friend like producer Todd Olsen, a newer friend like session guitarist and songwriter Brad Long or a new acquaintance like singer/songwriter Evan McHugh (I’ve recently become a fan), I keep hearing about and meeting one great musician after another. Who do you know? Who have you heard about? What’s buzzing on your side of Atlanta’s music community?