Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
I made my traditional corned beef and cabbage, and turnips, and parsnips, and carrots, and potatoes, and onions ... the thrill that comes once a year and lasts a week. Oh, that's a big ol' pot o' goodness!
Once upon a time I was living in CT and playing in a jug band. Somehow the band leader learned that Eric Von Schmidt, noted folk/blues artist from the 60s, a) lived in CT and b) was listed in the phone book! He called him up and got him interested in doing occasional gigs with us, which enlivened the next couple of years or so. There's plenty more but I'm trying to stay on point here.
One St. Patrick's Day we got booked to play at one of the venues that would have us, a place called Poco Loco. After we were done we wanted to eat, but since it was kind of late and this was New Haven our choices were somewhat limited. While people were deciding I had time to reflect on some peculiar circumstances of this day. Here I was, a person of Jewish heritage with German/Hungarian roots, playing Afro-American music on an Italian instrument with a friend of Prussian ancestry, in a Mexican restaurant on a day honoring the patron saint of Ireland ... so where did we eat? At the Chinese place next door, of course!
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