From: Thom Larson
Sent: Thursday, October 23rd, 2003 6:50 PM
 To: Slow Session Group
Subject: Slow Session at The Whistle Shop

 

 

 

Hi All,

 

Our next Slow Session at The Whistle Shop is scheduled for Saturday November 1st from 10:00am – Noon.

 

 

Don’t forget – this coming Monday (Oct. 27th) is the annual “Haunted Session” at Lucca Grill (in downtown Bloomington, IL). Our Sessions there usually start at around 7:30 or so. Last year was a really good time; we had lots of players show up in great costumes. You’ll find a copy of the email that Kevin sent out about the Session at the bottom of this email.

 

I hope to see everyone at the Haunted Session this coming Monday, then at the Slow Session next Saturday!

 

Thom Larson

The Whistle Shop

 

 

 

Legend has it that if you go to the Lucca Grill at the stroke of 7:30, on the evening of the Monday before Halloween you can hear the wailing laments of tunes gone by.  If you press your ear to the bricks, you can hear the souls of lost hornpipes, repeating their A parts endlessly, searching for their B sections.  It is said that the bohdrans of the very dead can be heard tuning their drums and changing their tippers in the hollows of eternity, while the flutes of the mostly dead howl their tunes in a ghastly discourse.  Through the whisper of the clouds you can hear bouzukis and mandolins, tuned to the shreiks of demons, keeping ragged, staggering time with the legless stomps of step dancers who know no stopping. . .

 

Well, actually that is what you get pretty much all the time at the Lucca Session.  This monday however, it is intentional.

 

Yes, my friends, a wee ghost reminded me (and reminded me, and reminded me) that this monday is the

 

HAUNTED SESSION!!!!!

 

(insert shreik here)

 

Come dressed as your favorite tune and be prepared to play freshley mangled versions of tunes you know and love; like, Dripping Upstairs, Haste to the Beheading, Crueleys Reel, Off With Her Head to Calefornia, Pull the Knife and Stick it Again,  Jenny's Zombie Chickens, and many more!

 

Yes, I said to come dressed as your favorite tune.  And no, putting a sign on your hat that says, "Westward Ho" and coming as Off to California is not a good costume.  FYI

 

see you there, if you dare,

 

Kevin