It’s May and that means it is time for Maifests and there are quite a few on the band’s calendar. It all kicks off on Wednesday in Hanover, MD at Bavarian Brauhaus, a German restaurant owned by the folks of Blob’s Park fame.
Friday has AMB jaunting right back to the Cleveland area just a couple weeks after the craziness of Dyngus Day for a completely opposite scenario of an indoor performance with a real dance floor and lots of German food being put on by S.T.V. Bavaria at the Donauschwaben German American Cultural Center. Tickets are still available!!
Sunday is one of the band’s favorite gigs of the year. It’s Sly Fox Brewery’s Bock Fest and Goat Races. Yep, there are real goats zooming around and the theme this year is Cinco De Mayo!
In Allentown on Tuesday, May 7, you’ll find the band doing a very intimate show at a room in Miller Symphony Hall. It will be a different side of the band from you usually see at festivals. The evening will feature the roots of the music of Lehigh Valley. Please join us for this special evening.
This is one of those messages that we all know we have to write at some point, but it’s never able to truly be prepared. My father passed away this week. He had not been well for quite a while and our relationship was strained. That said, I never lost sight of the fact that he was my father, my primary influence and in so many ways my hero. As I’m typing this, I’m listening to a wide variety of his recordings from albums he recorded in the late 60s with the Duquesne University Tamburitzans and in the 70s and 80s with his own band and so many other artists in his studio to the work we did together in the 90s and early 2000s. The breadth of his work is still astounding to me- amidst the fact that he also maintained full careers as a printer, record distributor/ retailer and event promoter. He did this alongside my mother, JoAnn and raised my two sisters (Christi and Katie) and I in a home that didn’t have all the trappings of economic success, but sure made up for it with a lot of unique life experiences. No family life is ideal, but I hope that all of my friends make an effort to see the best in the people in their lives and embody that in themselves.
