shoshara

If you're a fan of classical music, I'm playing with the Montgomery Philharmonic on Sunday at 7pm. I think its free, but I'm not sure. They sound great. Here's the program :
Sunday, June 7 2009 at 7:00 pm
Verdi - La Forza del Destino: Overture
Beethoven - Overture to Coriolanus, Op. 62
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5, Op. 64

The Forza has two harps! Exciting! Its in Gaithersburg. The address is on the orchestra's website.

Then, after that, Voodoo is playing at Artomatic at 8pm. Obviously I won't be playing, but that just means they'll rock even more and play some of the heavier stuff I'm not up to speed on :-p. Its at Artomatic, so its free! I'm hoping I'll be able to make it to hear part of their set! Artomatic is an AWESOME event. I had a great time when Dark Dissolve played and wish we could've stayed longer but I was still sick and was hoping to be able to make it to Ren Fair the next day (which I failed at).

Now, for the random crap I always put in my blog posts, The Silver Diner has *THE BEST VEGGIE BURGER EVER*. Its a black-bean/cumin base. So great. Its so hard to find good veggie burgers in the States. They always try to make them "like hamburgers". The best veggie burgers are just a delicious blend of vegetarian things. This one, and the one at the Brickskeller, are the only two I've ever had in the United States that were even tolerable, let alone absolutely delicious. I've been eating primarily vegetarian again (really just out of habit, I'll eat meat if Larry cooks it but I don't usually order it). I figured, I weighed 110 lbs (just 18 more to loose!) and was very fit when I was a vegetarian, so I should go back :).

Dark Dissolve played Artomatic's Cabaret Stage on Friday. We were intending to do an acoustic set.... acoustic guitars, acoustic harp, acoustic violin, awesome portable acoustic percussion (no drumset). Its our "small setting" instrumentation. Anyways. We got there (after much drama with some of the worst traffic I've seen), and the stage was HUGE with a drumset setup, and they wanted to mic us!
We did our first song acoustic. Larry said you could hear the harp that way.
The sound guy wanted to mic us. So they tried. Of course, everything got miced well except the harp, which could no longer be heard :(. The crappy thing is I had the pic up for it, but they decided after we started our set to mic us so there was no time for me to get it out and do a real sound check. I should've just brought the electric harp! Oh well.
I've been sick for the past several weeks. A cold/sore throat that just won't go away! I was feeling so great for so long, I guess I started doing too many things and not sleeping enough :(.

Dark Dissolve is playing a free acoustic show on the opening day of Artomatic. Here's the flyer!


We have new music for this show as well. So if you saw our last acoustic show and enjoyed it, come to this one and hear our new stuff!