East of Shirley - The evening by sherku

Spent a good evening up at the Harvest Cafe in Hudson listening to East of Shirley. A corner spot, pen and index cards at hand, a good drink, good music to listen to, all together created an inspiring moment or two for some sherkus. Here is how the evening went via sherku.


On Twitter I found @MyWordWizard posting a challenge:
@MyWordWizard: 2Poets&Dreamers.Complete this. "It was biting cold, but we felt.."


I was able to draw upon my mental archives to craft:

sherku: Winter run 

it was biting cold  

but we felt

so good heading home

with the wind

at our backs

To which they replied:
@shersteve Thank you so much for that completion. Very optimistic sentiment full of the warmth of home. Encore! http://tiny.ly/MSYF


So I was off into sherku land


Sherku: Harvest cafe

Harvest cafe

Harpoon winter warmer

East of Shirley

let the music flow

Lydia Biasi adds her voice to the mix for East of Shirley


Sherku: Lydia 

too many stories

over hot chocolate

Lydia sings of

faithless love

And all good things do come to an end, eventually

Sherku: closing 

Lights laughter music

numbers run down

Dutchman's secret only

Margaret knows

And then the final one for the evening as the Franklin skyline appeared along i495:


Sherku: still cooking

Longhorn exhales

into the night

grey on grey

I guess not

all are abed

And yes, they did play the full "Ernesto, manana". Sections of this song open and close the weekly podcast for Franklin Matters.


When you have a quiet moment, what would you put to paper with pen or pencil?

East of Shirley photos

I had forgotten that I had additional photos from the CD Release party that East Of Shirley held not too long ago.

Here they are:

The whole group:



Pickin' an' singin':



And finally, the last song for the evening, East of Shirley joined by Kimberly Boyce:



Visit their MySpace page to hear samples of their music.

Enjoy!

East of Shirley

The group East of Shirley performing at a unique space in Westford, MA. This is their CD release party.

Mobile post sent by shersteve using Utterli. Replies.

East of Shirley - New CD

Last October Dolores and I got to hear East of Shirley perform in Chelmsford, well they just released their first CD, A Thousand Sarajevos.

Good quality music! Well worth listening to.

Visit their MySpace page for samples here

Visit their website here

Their next local gig will be back at the Java Room in Chelmsford on August 23rd.

East of Shirley

Dolores and I got to hear East of Shirley play Friday night at The Java Room in Chelmsford.

They got off to a slow start in getting their playing together but did improve as the evening went along. There was one group of ladies in the corner who were clearly intent upon their own conversation (and that's okay, it is a coffeehouse) but a few times they made it difficult to appreciate the music. Once they left, the last several songs were better to listen to (both with less distraction, and the group having its act together).

I wrote a sherku.