There’s an incredibly good community supporting Folkey Monkey….. an event coordinated regularly by Joe Rathburn. Tonight’s event was a final goodbye to the church they have occupied for quite some time. And I understand that they are moving to somewhere that is going to take a lot of expense to bring the venue to where they need it. So I am going to recommend you email me if you know of any venue they can have events at regularly that doesn’t cost much. I mean, these guys are all about the music…. guys like Joe help newcomers get established…. all with lots of heart and soul. So let’s help Joe get re-established, location wise. Yes?
YES CHEF MARIAN. WE’LL EMAIL YOU LOCATIONS FOR SURE!
Well, I thank you for that support!
Back to tonight: I really liked tonight’s theme ~ a pre-Valentine Love Theme of only Beatles Music. The way Joe tells it, he first thought of the love theme and when he went to decide more detail with that theme, he thought “who has some really great love songs”? In fact my personal favorite: The Beatles! I guess that’s why they called it “All You Need is Love”! And that’s what it was…. a lovefest paying homage to the mop tops from Liverpool.
So, I grabbed my Beatles backpack that I bought at the Beatles Museum in London and away I went! (So cool. So cool)!
I play piano, flute, guitar and drums, sing harmony and tonight brought my ‘egg’. CHEF MARIAN! YOU BROUGHT FOOD?
Well, not exactly. This one shakes to the beat, if you have rhythm and know how to use it.
SO YOU DIDN’T COOK ANYTHING OR DEMONSTRATE HOW TO, OR TALK ABOUT FOOD?
No. (Well, Linda who was sitting next to me asked me a couple of questions, but that was only during the break – and I think we’re doing a cooking class at Larry’s house in the not too distant future).
And Surprise! Surprise! There’s more to Chef Marian than food. Did you know I was a Radio DJ for many, many years programming my own shows? Well, yeeeaaah.
So when I was invited out tonight by my friend Larry…. I jumped at the chance to take a break from this recent move I’ve done, and organizing myself into a new place. And guess what?
WHAT CHEF?
It was a good break because this was an excellent musical event. I always tell people that every party I throw ends in a jam session. Well, this was like a party at my house, with musician after musician playing a couple of tunes, culminating in a wonderful jam session with many of the players coming back on stage.
SO WHO DID YOU SEE CHEF?
Well, I can’t remember everyone… I’m sure if you go google it…. well, alright here’s a Folkey Monkey link….. All You Need is Love, was the event.
I can tell you some of the more memorable ‘sangers’…. starting with Joe. The Show Must Go On! Sick as a dog, and still singing like a pro…. and another gentlemen recently recovering from a trip to the hospital whose name escapes me…. really fine singing. Then there was Jerry Gontang, who plays and tells jokes and really ‘nailed’ every song, Michael Tiernan, who did his own rendition and made the Beatles his own, Christopher Dale (who is a Joe Cocker equal on With a Little Help from my Friends (bought CD’s from Michael and Christopher because I wanted to hear more), Peter Bolland, etc.
There were two women in the bunch, but I can’t tell you more than that. Go google it. Pulleease!
I think the most wonderful thing for me is they encourage audience participation.
I just love singing harmony, so that made me happy.
Every so often I join a bunch of people in the park on a Sunday, and we all take turns picking the song and doing the ‘lead’ on it. That’s fun too. But being at an event, with people who actually remember Peter, Paul and Mary…. someone even mentioned them on stage.
My ‘hit list’ in those days included Simon and Garfunkel, The Association, The Doors, Herman’s Hermits, The Turtles, which later morphed into Neil Young, CSNY, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell….. And now? My daughter has me listening to Foo Fighters, Sublime, Green Day, and more.
IF YOU REMEMBER THE 60’s YOU WEREN’T THERE CHEF!
Well, I was there and it is my fondest memories…. sitting in the student center at college, playing chess and jamming on piano and guitar with all kinds of people. ..
Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground. Mother Earth will swallow you, won’t you lay your body down.
Happy Eating,
Chef Marian
mm@chefmarian.com
P.S.-One of these days I’m going to find a musician or two that will let me come at the end of their practice session just to sing a few songs with them.
Singing truly fills me with joy, especially when I harmonize well with someone. Can you say: “Singing Chef”? An event with Food and Music? lol If you build it, they will come……