Busy Weekend (if I can get there) [Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος]

Tomorrow evening there is a free recorder + gamba + harpsichord concert in Baltimore that it looks like I'll be able to attend (plans are a little vague; the important bit is getting to see aliza250 while she's on this coast, and the concert is one of our options for something to do).

Saturday afternoon, I'm hoping to be performing with Thrir Venstri Foetr / Three Left Feet in Marching Through Time, a multiple-period (spanning a couple thousand years, roughly), multiple-reenactment-group military history showcase at Marietta Mansion in Glen Dale, Maryland ... if I manage to arrange transportation somehow.

(I'll be skipping a recorder workshop that I'd wanted to go to, to play with 3LF instead -- I mention the workshop here because I recall at least one local friend being at least a little interested in it. I'll also be missing a birthday party. ... unless, of course, I fail to find a ride to MTT but a ride to one of these other events suddenly appears.)

Saturday evening, I'm supposed to be performing with The Homespun Ceilidh Band at the Greenbelt Arts Center in Greenbelt, Maryland ... assuming I manage to arrange transportation somehow.

Sunday afternoon, I may be again performing with Thrir Venstri Foetr / Three Left Feet in Marching Through Time, at Marietta Mansion ... if I can arrange transportation.

The following weekend, 3LF is playing at a wedding; the weekend after that, HCB is playing at the Southern Maryland Celtic Festival, I think the weekend after that HCB or a subset thereof is performing at Riversdale, and then a week later is a recorder-club meeting, followed another week later by 3LF performing at the Maryland Faerie Festival. I've no idea yet whether I'm booked for anything during Balticon the next week. It looks like I have a free weekend at the start of June ... I'll post about those other events in more detail; in the meantime, here's the info about this weekend's events.

Event Details

FREE Recorder Concert at Grace & St. Peter's Church

Jacob Lodico, Recorder Soloist
with
Andrew Arceci, Viola da Gamba
Joseph Gascho, Harpsichord

Presenting a concert of baroque music with works by Handel, Corelli, Vivaldi, Castello, and others.

FREE ADMISSION.

Friday, April 13, 2007, at 8:00 pm

Grace and St. Peter's Parish, Monument Street at Park Avenue, Baltimore

SEM Spring Workshop

Saturday, April 14, 2007, 9:00-4:00
Maryland Presbytarian Church, Towson, MD
featuring clinician Deborah Booth

Admission is $30, and they do want to know in advance how many folks plan to show up.

Marching Through Time

Marietta House Museum
5626 Bell Station Road, Glenn Dale, MD 20769
April 14 & 15, 11 am -5 pm

Multiperiod living history encampment including re-enactors from 1st c. Romans through 20th c. World War II and more. Demonstrations include camp and domestic life, cooking, crafts, weaponry, and military drills. Also featuring period merchants and food. No pets please. Free parking at Glenn Dale Community Center with continuous shuttle service to event.

Admission: $8/adults, $3/ages 4-18, free/ages 3 & under

The Homespun Ceilidh Band at Greenbelt Arts Center

Saturday, April 14 at 8pm
123 Centerway, Greenbelt, MD

Admission: $12 general admission, $10 for students and senior u citizens.

For reservations or more information call 301-441-8770.

I hope to see some of you here and there this weekend!

... And, of course, er (*cough*) ah, if any of y'all can help me out with rides hither and yon so that I can actually show up at some/most of these events, please do let me know. I'll be travelling with two guitars, a rifle-case full of woodwinds, and, if possibly, a double bass. I'll be starting out from southwest Baltimore, though with enough advance warning I may be able to arrange to start out from Arlington instead. Thanks. (dglenn@panix.com, 919-649-5862)

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See you at MTT!! I'll be with the Romans and probably the WWI guys for a time too. I'd offer you a ride but I'm coming from VA. :(

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If I can find a way to wake up in Virginia on Saturday morning, would you have room for the double bass?

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Where in VA? I'm right near DC so places like Fairfax are in the opposite direction for me. Double bass will probably fit. Need to unload the rest of the crap from my vacation.

Oh how long is it? I've got a Scion xB which has a lot of square footage but not a lot of length.

Seventy-five inches. If the xB is a five door and has bucket seats (I am completely unfamiliar with that vehicle other than a side photo that Google just found for me), then the length shouldn't be an issue -- it fits in a Mazda 323 hatchback with the rear seat folded down and the neck sitting over the parking brake.

And if I do make it to Virginia, I'd be in Arlington, near Chain Bridge. Is that a workable pickup spot in relation to where you are?

ugh...Chain Bridge is kind of tricky because there's no easy way to get there from Alexandria and it takes at least 30mins in the opposite direction. I hate to say no but I've got to run errands in the AM before I get there and I just don't navigate well before 10am. So sorry. Maybe next time? I have a feeling the weekend is going to be a wash as well. *sigh*

I'm trying to think of someone who is coming from that way - like Herndon or Fairfax. Too bad Mea is in London else she'd probably be able to do it.

I managed to find a ride directly from Baltimore (*whew*). Thanks for considering it though, even though the geography didn't work out.

I guess from Alexandria you head right through town?

See you tomorrow!

Weather for MTT at http://www.erh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapClick.php?CityName=Glenn+Dale&state=MD&site=LWX says 80% chance of rain on Sunday. Her Benevolence will probably not be making an appearance at MTT.

*mutters*

*shakes fist irritably at the sky* Camelot! Camelot, I say!

And according to the television this evening, a chance of snow showers on Monday!

Yah, 80% chance of rain makes Sunday sound less than promising. I'm hoping for that other 20%. At least the rain Saturday isn't supposed to start until "late".

If the weather forecast for Sunday holds up, Susan is aiming to just preemptively cancel Sunday. That will let folks blow out of there Saturday, hopefully before it gets really nasty.

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