Barsh Report Labor Day 2010

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Sam Barsh / PVD / Aabaraki Triple Bill

Thursday, September 9th, 8:00 PM

Fontana's Bar

105 eldridge st

New York, NY

Barsh Report Labor Day 2010

I write you as another labor day passes

And I am about to hit the sack and take off my glasses.

Happily the summer weather is sticking 'round like molasses

So no need yet to grab the parkas or long undies for your asses

The month of august has been a good 'un

A healthy mix of work and good fun

I took my annual trip to Maine, for the Bar Harbor Jazz fest

It was full of outdoorsiness and great music, i surely do not jest

A Barsh Band gig was done on the famed Village Green

And i was so relaxed, even my trademark grimace-while-playing looked a little less mean.

Then played a bunch of different shows with a tight set of musicians

Working thru the different tuneage like a group of statisticians

On a couple shows we chose to forego charts, we made that tough decision

So we wouldn't shit on the music like a flock of well-fed pigeons.

See, when you have some hard-ass music but no time to rehearse

Its opportunity to be played correctly dies, and should be brought away in a wee hearse.

Thus, on 2 of the shows where we just showed up and played

We flipped some standards we all knew, and great music was made.

Shout to Ned Ferm, Ryan Blotnick, Bill Mchenry and Rj Miller

Devin Gray, Kristin Slipp, Kim Cass, and for rhyme's sake, Jerry Stiller.

I've also been editing and finalizing some new recorded music, so stay tuned

My goal is to have you musically fed, drunk, sexed, slapped, and mooned

Finally, since if you're still reading this you're all (like me) rhyme geeks,

I'll give a synopsis of the 7 days before and after Labor day 2010-a tale of two weeks:

1. last week - no gigs but busy like gulf oil rigs.

3 days of writing intensely as hell, with Derek Nievergelt and Robin McKelle.

Impromptu limo chartering, rental car bartering.

Barely slept and felt kinda dirty,

went way upstate for a wedding (mighty purty), couple friends o mine turned 30. Mcgurdy

‎This week - shows every night, will attempt to treat my body right.

Thursday Sept 9 is the big AABARAKI/PVD/SAM BARSH TRIPLE BILL, gonna be ill!

Tues at Cornelia St, and Weds uptown at Sugar Bar, for you uptowners that hate travelin far.

Friday is in BK, then Saturday I'm free to play, sunday to europe i fly away, hey hey hey!

okayy okayy, hope to see you soon one day

-Barsh

Other shows im doing this week:

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 8:00 PM Ryan Blotnick Group Cornelia Street Cafe New York, NY

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 8:00 PM w/Robert Mwamba Sugar Bar 254 West 72nd Street (at West End Ave) New York, NY 212-579-0222