PSA - Medieval hawtness October 20th

The Institute of Musical Traditions presents

The Mediaeval Baebes

"Six dynamic, exotically beautiful women breathe renewed life into the addictive modes of medieval songs and poetry. Irresistible!!! Their hauntingly beautiful music and powerful presentation has captured the imagination of young and old alike and the devotion of audiences worldwide. In ten years the Baebes have placed three of their albums at the top of the UK classical charts and their recent contribution to the BBC production of The Virgin Queen (composed by Martin Phipps) garnered a well deserved Ivor Novello award in 2007 for best television soundtrack. Founding member Katharine Blake is also the music director and lead composer and arranger for the band. Born in London, she was classically trained at the Purcell School of Music and Richmond College. Through her work with the Baebes, Katharine has enabled audiences to discover largely unknown medieval texts by making them accessible and pertinent to the modern age. The medieval themes of nature, the life cycle, love, lust and longing are as relevant in 2008 as they were in 1408."

Monday, October 20th at 7:30
at the Spanish Ballroom in Glen Echo Park 
7300 MacArthur Blvd. Glen Echo, MD

Tickets are $22 in advance/$27 at the door
(NOTE: Last years performance did sell out)

Tickets are available online, or in person at
The House of Musical Traditions in Takoma Park, MD

Tickets are also available at House of Musical Traditions booth
at the Maryland Renaissance Festival

Miss Noralita

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Originally uploaded by osovagabundo.

and her balanced diet of Poland Springs soda water.

care of Oso!

Tribo Pics are starting to appear!

they way of things.

a very strange thing happened this morning. for no reason that I can figure out, I woke up at 8:30. folks who know me know that I don't believe in 8:30. never have. still, figuring it was a hint, I got up and started to get some work done.

my phone rings. it's the fellow I've been playing phone tag with calling me for an interview. scheduled it for today at 11:00 am (note, I usually sleep till noon, and stay up till 4 am...so, all this before I usually wake up is amazing)

the interview went well. they always do. I'm trying not to get my hopes up. still, talking on the phone this evening I noticed little things kept slipping out of my mouth, like "if I get this job, then I will be able to do more at the Sideshow Gathering".

there's that hope thing again.

Today was spent being unusually productive. I finished up the pages I was working on in Asheville. uploaded some pics from our hike in the mountains (just seeing them again made me feel wonderful. now I know why I took so many dang pics!), I worked in the shrunken head pasties (they are going to be awesome!). I took care of a f-ton (metric) of DCT biz, and I got some planning done on my super seekrit sideshow project (hopeful, positive work)

all in all, a good day. but I have to watch that hope thing. don't want it getting too out of hand. (however, any hope you folks might be harboring is acceptable ;-)

( a few asheville pics behind ze cut )

oh, and I had to share my political icon. because it rules!