Double notes…9/26

This past weekend I got nailed twice. We have a thing up her call the Lakeland Performing Arts Association. Some kind folks twenty years back thought it was a grand idea to bring a little culture to the northwoods, something other than going to the Lakeland Cinema Friday night and watching the Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Part 2.

For the first fifteen years it went something like this… "Geeees... Rosebud, do I really have to go tonight, Michigan State is playing N.D. and it’s on TV!" But off we went and to watch the New Glarus , Wisconsin, Swiss Yoo-del-ers for two fun packed hours. Another performance that stands out was a guy with a dumbie and you could see both of their mouths move, the guy was a very bad Edgar Bergen impersonator who also happened to be dead.

So this months selection was the Wisconsin 1st Brigade Band. This group is another Civil War enactment but these folks, 50 in all, were really good musicians. They had real McCoy instruments from the 1850’s plus they were dressed in custom made military threads of the day…they looked and sounded like the real thing of 140 years ago and pretty loud.

The band are amateurs that are real pros and were well worth the price of admission. That was Saturday eve and then again they played at our Sunday church service. Fifty people blowing on horns raised the roof in a very small area, and once again my ears are still rining.

No, they didn’t sound like Bob Seger or the Grateful Dead…they were better for it was live and this is from a guy that likes good sounds no matter the era.