From:
Thom Larson
Sent: Tuesday, October 26th,
2004 9:40pm
To: Slow Session Group
Subject:
Slow Session and
Haunted Session
Hi All,
Our next Slow Session at The Whistle Shop will be on Saturday November 6th from 10:00am – Noon.
The main reason for this email is to remind everyone in our area that the 4th annual “Haunted Session” at Lucca Grill in Bloomington, IL will be next Monday (Nov. 1st).
Kevin sent the following info to the Lucca Grill Session Email list:
Legend has it that if you go to the Lucca Grill at the stroke of 7:30, on the evening of the Monday after 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 shrieks 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 coming monday is the
HAUNTED SESSION!!!!!
(insert shriek here)
Come dressed as your favorite tune and be prepared to play freshly mangled versions of tunes you know and love; like, Dripping Upstairs, Haste to the Beheading, Crueleys Reel, Off With Her Head to California, 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
There will be a prize awarded to the greatest costume!
see you there, if you dare,
Kevin
See you all on Monday the 1st and/or Saturday the 6th!
Thom Larson
The Whistle Shop