Touring Pt. 1: Piscataway, New York, Ithaca
So we’re doing a short tour on the east coast. I met the others in Philadelphia, then we made our way to the Steampunk World’s Fair before going to NYC and Ithaca. We met several cool and enthusiastic people at SPWF, and we hope we can come back next year to hit the fair with everything we learned about the convention. NYC was slim pickings, but we got caught on film busking in Central Park by a documentary filmmaker, who we hope will become riotously successful very soon. Also, we got a $115 ticket for parking 2 feet too close to a fire hydrant – it’d be nice if we could make that back.
Today we played in Ithaca – hours of busking and two sets at The Giving Tree Cafe – probably the most any of us have played in one day ever. We had a bunch of enthusiastic people there tonight, who we met while busking in the Ithaca Commons, where we got some help from a cool little kid who did the town crier thing for a while. People seem to be very receptive to new music here, and everyone we met today was quite nice to talk to after the show. Also, a couple nice people tipped us with cookies and candy. Nothing wrong with that. (Please don’t everyone tip us in food.)
We’re staying with our friends Carol and Cesar tonight (thanks), and tomorrow, we’re off to Avenue 209 in Lock Haven, PA @ 7:00. Then, Friday at The Vintage Coffee in Mt. Airy, MD @ 8:00; and Bobo Gallery in Asheville, NC on Sunday May 23.
Mike D
p.s. Here’s a video of “Door Ajar” from tonight’s show, featuring the voice of the kid mentioned above:
May 22nd, 2010 at 3:42 pm
Pretty cool that you guys were on film. Were you guys playing or just walking? Did you catch the name of the documentary? The parking ticket sucks, sounds like you guys need a bigger tip jar then! The Giving Tree Cafe was a good time then eh? Awesome!
May 22nd, 2010 at 4:22 pm
We were out there busking. We did not get the guy’s name, but we figure any exposure is helpful. Perhaps the guy will read this and email us his contact information, as he has the EP and consequently the website…