{"id":3285,"date":"2012-06-04T19:13:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T00:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2012-09-05T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T14:53:11","slug":"a-night-at-the-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/a-night-at-the-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"A Night at the Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not exactly a news flash that good acoustic music venues are sparse around here (and, well, pretty much anyplace these days). That&#8217;s why we appreciate it so much when kind- and like-minded people open up their living room to a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/House_concert\" target=\"_blank\">house concert<\/a>&#8230;or when someone like our pal Allen realizes that a museum with a monthly free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstfridaysantacruz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;First Friday&#8221;<\/a> event just *might* be good spot to introduce the unsuspecting patrons to a bit of music whilst on their travels to the latest exhibits. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzmah.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz MAH<\/a> (Museum of Art and History) has been featuring music as part of their First Friday festivities for over two years now. It&#8217;s since been the monthly site of &#8211; along with free admission to the latest exhibits &#8211; concerts featuring songwriters, [mostly] acoustic bands, the occasionally jazz ensemble, and even seasonal gatherings (i.e., a Latin band during the weekend of Day of the Dead last October.)<\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=santa-cruz-first-friday]<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been there a few times, and last Friday I played again, doing a little guest set during a break from our pals Jay Howlett, Rolfe Wyer, and Patrick Feehan of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blahblahwoofwoof.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BlahBlahWoofWoof<\/a> ensemble.<\/p>\n<p>A fun event that draws a bunch of nice people. There might be better ways to spend a Friday, but I sure can&#8217;t think of any. <\/p>\n<p>Well, except maybe this:<\/p>\n<p>If you happen to be in San Jose THIS Friday, I&#8217;ll be drafting behind Jay Howlett on yet another gig. He and I are both appearing as part of the three hour extravaganza known as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/stevekritzer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Kritzer<\/a> and Friends&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santanarow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Santana Row<\/a>. It&#8217;s a free concert from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. Besides Jay and I, Steve will be accompanying Shelley Franklin, Chris Welkey, and a bunch of other folks he regularly plays with. Hope you can join us. And did I mention this one&#8217;s free?<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fa-night-at-the-museum%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not exactly a news flash that good acoustic music venues are sparse around here (and, well, pretty much anyplace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3620,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions\/3620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}