Glory Garden

I’m Back- and Have to Clean House Again

I’m back in the US and writing on Glory Garden again. Just uploading some new phtos and then I have a new post about chainsaws. However, I do seem to have 14 thousand subscribers, most of whom have names that indicate that they are spammers. Rather than guess at each one, I will once again delete the whole list, and if you like getting my posts, please resubscribe. I do actually feel bad about…

Resubscribe if you want to….

Right now I am working on a different project about a way different location, so Glory Garden is on hold. I will continue when logical to do so. Various folks in Russia, etc., whose interest in this website is based on a hope that they can sell me life enhancing drugs, have clogged up the subscriber list. I have deleted the entire list, since to pick through literally 14 thousand subscribers to…

Last Saturday night 5/28 the Tool Gypsies came back to the Milton Theatre for a really sweet time. The thing about doing return shows is that, yes, you need to top the last show, and you need to show them something new, but it also means that you know you are playing to a friendly house. After all, they already heard you, and they asked you back. And they were a great audience last time. So it is…

If You Want to Catch the Tool Gypsies This Year….

This Saturday May 28th  we will be back at the Milton for our only stateside theater performance this year!  Everybody in the band returned from various distant locales just to make this one show, as we were unable to fit any of the dates offered by other venues into the short time violinists Stephen and Susan would be back from their travels in South America. Guitar wizard Curt Heavey has been…

Did you like the libretto?

I put up a libretto of translations of the songs we did Friday night at the Milton Theatre, which, by the way, was a really great time. (We’ll be back in the spring.) When I put them out at shows I alwys see people squinting at them, so I decided to go digital…. So my question to you folks is, do you like me to do that? Is it interesting to you? Shall I do it again? Or shall we skip it? What’s…

It’s Stephen’s Birthday!

That’s right, folks! It’s our favorite mad violinist’s birthday and he doesn’t want anybody to say anything about it. So let’s annoy him with lots of cheery remarks today. I’ll be somewhere baking a flourless chocolate cake. Because he doesn’t like sweets. Hehehe….

The Tool Gypsies Love the Milton

Friday night’s Tool Gypsies show at the Milton Theatre was awesome! The audience was so great- they were up for anything, and as much noise as they made, I think they had a good time. I know we did! To all the good folks at the Milton, you rock. We really want to thank Fred Munzert for putting the whole thing together- and making it look effortless, Jim and Luke for doing sound, Lisa for elegant…

As y’all know, I’m into singing in about eight different languages. It’s fun and it’s how we do. But Curt said to me, “Honestly, I’ll bet half the people at our shows really like NOT knowing what you’re singing about- like, -just keeping singing, sounds great….”  Well, folks, as an academic and a linguist of sorts,  I think that is just terrible- you guys are better than that. So for those of you…

333 Coffeehouse was a BLAST!

If you came to the concert at 333 Coffeehouse, we love you! That was such a perfect audience. You clapped at the right places, sighed at the right moments, closed your eyes, sang along….you should do audience training workshops. 333 Coffeehouse takes place monthly at the Annapolis Friends Meeting, and is a sweet place- nice easy load in, comfortable pretty room, delicious eats, and it’s solar!…

333 Coffeehouse Concert This Friday!

We just rolled in from a mad dash up to the Ontario bush- Rideau Lakes, no mobile, no electricity, no wifi- and are making ready to play the aforementioned delightful concert at 333 Coffeehouse, a cosy, intimate listening room at the Annapolis Friends Meeting, at 351 Dubois Rd., Annapolis, Maryland. This venue has a good reputation in the area as a serious listening room with a good sound system,…

Good Times at Muskrat Park

I think I would play the Muskrat even if there were only muskrats in the audience. It’s such a cool name, for one, but it’s a sweet venue, and the people really come to listen to the music. That’s really what we look for when deciding on venues; a listening audience.  We play what we play because we like the music, and we learn it, practise it, rearrange it, and polish it because we are musicians…

June 25th Muskrat Park, St. Michaels, MD

Sorry late notice- we are just hauling back in from Kansas City and realized I had only done the facebook event notification- so: We are doing a free public performance at: June 25th, 6:30 pm, Muskrat Park, St. Michaels, MD. “Summer Concerts in Muskrat Park Thursday Evening – 6:30 PM. Featuring The Tool Gypsies. Bring lawn chairs, picnic dinner, beverages, bug spray, dancing shoes, and friends!…

Encore Impromptu- Who Wrote That Piece?

After this we played this, several people asked us, “who wrote that?”  I guess we did. It’s more a Spirit led sort of thing, though.

This  is not the only new release we have, but it is a sample of a particular side of the Tool Gypsies that is really special. It’s sort of why we let Stephen out of his cage, and it’s one of the…

A Decent Herb Garden

Someone recently asked me for pointers on an herb garden that includes medicinal herbs. The thing is that many herbs are of course both culinary and medicinal. “Let thy food be thy medicine,”as Hippocrates said.So I will just mentally wander around my garden and try to organize the ones I see. But before I do that, I would just emphasize that most culinary herbs prefer well-drained soil and sun,…

New Tracks Out: Besame….

The Tool Gypsies have some new tracks out for your listening pleasure;  the classic bolero Besame Mucho,and Stephen’s ceremonial Native American Flute piece.  We asked the good people at Maryland Cable TV to film the Valentine’s Day show at the Avalon on the beautiful Art Deco big stage, and we hope you will like it. Director Tim Weigand did a sound mix of the board audio with the house mike, so…

The Tool Gypsies have two new YouTubesup for your listening pleasure; Besame Mucho and Stephen’s ceremonial space opening piece on the Native American flute..  We had the good people at Maryland Cable TV film the Valentine’s Day show on the big stage at the Avalon, and Tim Weigand did an initial mix on the board and house sound, giving you a little of the room so you feel like you are there. One…