Month: May 2010

This year’s Jubilee was a rousing success. Great weather, huge crowds, and incredible music.
Every year there seems to be some old song that everybody plays; this year it was “I Would Do Anything For You.” Also each year there’s a band that knocks me on my ass; this year it was the New Orleans Ale Stars who knew how to milk an old Dixieland standard for all it was worth. And every year there are myriad “Jubilee moments” that make the whole thing worthwhile; this year my favorite such moment was Ralph Reynolds of the Reynolds Brothers getting a young boy so excited about playing the washboard that the poor tyke got a nosebleed. Don’t let anyone tell you that jazz isn’t dangerous.

Drop by any STJS run venue from 5-7 and get all drinks $2 off. I’m at the whistle stop seeing the inimitable Reynolds Brothers. Drop on by.

Great to see on a warm May day. Lines out the door at almost every venue. STJS might just turn a profit this year.

It’s 5 o’clock right now. Jubilee happy hour. All drinks $2 off. There’s nothing better with a cold discount pint of Mirror Pond pale ale than a few smoked shrimp from Laszlo’s Gourmet Smoked Fish on Front Street. Smoked yumminess.

First set of Jubilee found festival emperor Bob Draga playing with Sacramento 32 year old wunderkind Jason Wanner. Not exactly the most exciting gig bit not bad for a Friday afternoon warm up.
But the set I’m at now is rocking. The band: Coronet Chop Suey. Check them out if you get a chance.

I’m not sure what “live-blogging” actually is. So I may not be doing it right. Is it just having conversations with people face-to-face? Because if that’s the case, then that’s just “talking.” Seems like you don’t need a two-word techno phrase to describe that.

Anyway, I’ll be updating this here blog with my favorite acts, favorite eats, and favorite old-ladies-with-flapper-dresses-and-parasols throughout the weekend, so be sure to check back for up to date Jubilee info.

Here’s tip number #1, if you’re not jazzed out by 10pm any night this weekend, check out Bill Dendle and Eddie Erickson on the Delta King. They’re heroes of mine and fantastic musicians and hilarious entertainers and generous benefactors to animal rescue charities and beings whose mere presence can make the sun rise and set and Capricorns.  Check ’em out.