Leaving from Adam's wedding broke my heart, but I had a job to do and two other musicians that I had to lead into victory. This was planned months in advance, and yet we were unsure of how we were going to take on the music up until one week before.
The band was basically a configuration of Mere Point, the jazz band formed years earlier in Brunswick for a birthday party. On this gig, Mitch Thomas played keys and Ray Libby played woodwinds (sax, clarinet and flute). I played jazz guitar and violin for the klezmer songs-- that is right, klezmer! This wedding was an amalgamation of Jewish and Catholic traditions-- brought together by food and love. We brought it together with jazz and klezmer.
Here is the couple getting pics taken before the ceremony. The bride, Kate, made this hutzpah in wood shop. It fit the surroundings-- we were playing the Boothbay Harbor Botanical Gardens.
Here we are playing a klezmer song-- my violin tells me that!
Here is an example of the many paths that swivel around thousands of species of flowers. There was also wildlife that you wouldn't normally see (rabbits, different bird species).
This should have been used-- maybe I will go back and play classical guitar under it!
Even the monkey bars have been taken over by flora!
Here the couple is discussing something-- possibly prior to the eating of biscotti!
This was definitely a jazz song--- and I am sure that we loved it.
Woodchips hit the sky once the couple parted. We played Siman Tov and then we were alone, save for a couple that showed up late. They ended up with a private show.
Till death do us part? Apparently not!
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