The Lovell Sisters were a great treat on Saturday night. I'd been told they were live wires. But they were also very talented musicians. And very young too, but they obviously had been given a good start in understanding life by their parents.
I say that because their original lyrics were generally wise beyond their years, and they were talking about influences that late teens don't normally recognize. There was a longer instrumental in recognition of Jimi Hendrix's birthday on Friday. It was obviously a bluegrass number, but it went through some pretty amazing chord changes and became almost hypnotic before they drew it to a close for an extended version of Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues. The eldest of the three sisters, herself no more than 21 years of age, belted out the most mischievous version of that song I've ever witnessed.
There was a bit of everything in this show and I took it as a true omen of good things to come for the Don Gibson Theatre and for Uptown Shelby. When they finisihed up the second set the audience just sprange to their feet, no thinking about whether it was good enough for a big standing ovation! Anytime I can hear such good playing with such high energy I'll be there!
Monday, November 30, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Ah, Time Flies & Holidays Are Here!
Well, we are fast approaching Thanksgiving and the official beginning to the Christmas Season with a bit more hope and calm this year. But the calm is only on the emotional side, as things here at Uptown Shelby Association are at a really fast pace compared with last year. Of course, the new kid (that's me) was being cut a little slack last year and this time around I know that we are not insulated from the way everyone goes into overdrive this time of year.
We've seen four new businesses open in the last 21 days, adding about 28-30 employees to the Uptown workforce. The city electrical crews have been teasing everyone by testing and replacing lights in the early evening hours as the days shorten. And merchants have been shifting from seasonal fall decorations to an all-out blast of lights that should reach a completely dazzling stage this week.
I hope the good folks of Shelby will take advantage of Uptown merchants' offerings this year and receive a positive thing in return--sanity and memories of shopping the old time way in the heart of their home town.
Well, we are fast approaching Thanksgiving and the official beginning to the Christmas Season with a bit more hope and calm this year. But the calm is only on the emotional side, as things here at Uptown Shelby Association are at a really fast pace compared with last year. Of course, the new kid (that's me) was being cut a little slack last year and this time around I know that we are not insulated from the way everyone goes into overdrive this time of year.
We've seen four new businesses open in the last 21 days, adding about 28-30 employees to the Uptown workforce. The city electrical crews have been teasing everyone by testing and replacing lights in the early evening hours as the days shorten. And merchants have been shifting from seasonal fall decorations to an all-out blast of lights that should reach a completely dazzling stage this week.
I hope the good folks of Shelby will take advantage of Uptown merchants' offerings this year and receive a positive thing in return--sanity and memories of shopping the old time way in the heart of their home town.
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