Sunday, December 7, 2025
Today was After Hours Big Band’s Christmas concert. It was good. Lots of unusual big band-y arrangements of Christmas music. The band was encouraged to wear a pop of color. Keith did a great job. He was the most festive. Most of the rest of them were wearing black. C’mon people. Do better.
There was a nice crowd – including Erick! I was thrilled to see him there. (He played a terrific Santa at Dave and Buster’s brunch this morning. I think he has a real future in it. He also has a giant stocking.) Tom and Louise are Keith’s biggest fans and come to as many of his concerts as possible. We are so lucky to have such supportive friends! Louise thanked me for bringing so much music into their lives; what a wonderful thing to have helped!
Krispie Kreme is only 10 minutes from the concert venue. It opened a couple months ago (ish?) and it is not near home, so we haven’t been. I thought this was the time. Until we saw the line. What the heck? At 6pm on Sunday night? Why? Who is eating doughnuts then? (I guess we would have been, but we immediately bailed.) I just noticed that Keith got some of the line in the picture – not even half of it. The drive thru was realllllly long.
No doughnuts? We went to Rocky Rococo’s! (Thanks for the tip, Erick) We ordered a big pizza to go to feed us for days, then realized it was dinner time and we were hungry. We sat in the restaurant and had a couple pieces each, then took the sizeable leftovers home.
Music and food seem to make up the majority of our lives. I am fine with that.
Music and food….. Music and food…. There’s a song there…. I KNOW! I’m thinking of the “Silver and gold” song from the Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer TV thingy – sung by Burl Ives. There’s the challenge – new words to go with that tune starting with “Music and food….” As an oxygen-starved tuba player, I can SAY “music and food” – those are the two central things for tuba players. (Some people would say that it’s “music and beer,” but I think it’s food.) Writing song lyrics is out of my reach. Anyway, I think it might be the beginning of a nice song.