March 23rd, 2007 – Very Nice!!

Every time we have another Heartland Unplugged, I tell myself I’m going to get right at making another entry in this blogsite. Well you know what they say about “good intentions”. Ever since we were visited by the folks from the MOKANOPRY website, and I saw how they posted information about us the very next morning, I’ve felt shamed in to trying to better at this. This month I’ve heard of another website, www.folkjam.org, and I’m adding it as another one of our links. Hope you like it and find it helpful.

Once again we saw Gary Russell and a lot of people from the Thursday Nite Opry at 98th and Blue Ridge (the Community of Christ Church). We’ve always felt a real connection with them. They helped us get started and continue to support Heartland Unplugged. Their show is terrific and the people are so friendly there. If you haven’t been there, you’re really missing out.
I’ll guess I’ll shut up now and show some more pictures of people having fun. Feel free to make comments if you’d like. Just click on the comments link below and they’ll walk you thru a quick registration.

The Next Heartland Unplugged is this Friday Night

This promises to be another great night of music and friendship. I’m expecting our largest turnout ever. Like the title said, the next HU is this Friday night, March 23rd, from 7:00 – 10:00pm. Those times are just for advertising purposes though, because we usually start going around 6:00 and don’t end until almost midnight. If you need directions, punch in the address in an online map program (the address is in the blogsite title above) or call the church 816-763-8444. Quick directions are: go to south Kansas City, get off of 435 or 71 on Bannister Road near Bannister Mall and go east about a mile or so. The church is on the corner of Bannister and James A. Reed Rd (the next stoplight east of Blue Ridge Blvd). Mention you saw this and we'll buy you a coke. See you there.

February '07's Heartland Unplugged

ANOTHER GREAT TURNOUT!!! What a great night of music and friendship. If you weren't able to come, you sure missed a good one. Take a look at the crowd....

Cake and ice cream were served to celebrate the two year anniversary of Heartland Unplugged....that's Marie blowing the candles out....

Everyone enjoyed the cake and ice cream...

Chef Craig served up some great cheeseburgers and brats...

.... some pictures of folks playing and singing....

I forgot to mention that besides the new people that show up at each HU, we also seem to see more than our share of new instruments. I blame that on stores like Guitar Center and Musician's Friend Outlet. Ever since these stores hit town, there seem to be more and more new instruments appearing at these jams. As a public service announcement I feel like I have to ask that each musician limit his purchases of new instruments to no more that two per month. That is unless one of his current instruments gets broken or stolen....or he/she wins the lottery or gets a tax refund. Then it would be okay to increase this number....but only then...

...oh but then I just thought...someone may not have a guitar and they want to buy one of yours. Well that wouldn't be very nice of you not to sell them one of yours (after all, you have quite a few). So you sell them one and then you'd be down one. Well then it would be okay to also buy a replacement for that one....

Well I guess it's goodbye for now....see you next fourth Friday!