b k and the foot music

This was the last of the five extra SMF shows that I'd added to my volunteer roster.

I am sooo glad I did!

It was a prevening concert - as my favorite fictional physicist would say - that I only signed up for on Tuesday.

Someone had mentioned it would be dance music, so that's why I jumped aboard.

(Hey, a little train ref as an inside joke for Sheldon!)

And were they right?

Was it dance tunes?

Well, let me put it this way: it had a beat and I could certainly move to it!

So could little 2-year-old Loulou, once I showed her how it was done!

(smile!)

But that was for the second half of the concert.

I was still posted by Isaac as VIP lounge Door Wench, and he never did come and relieve me so I could go inside for any of the show.

Ack.

He is a bit blond, though... which, as one with blonde roots, I can certainly recognize.

Maybe he saw that I was moving my pigtails to the beat anyway and thought I was good to go.

(smile!)

Fortunately, the doors to the concert venue are glass, and the acoustics are such that I was still able to hear perfectly well, so no worries!

That's Bassekou Kouyate and his band, Ngoni Ba.

He's the guy in white, on the right, with the funny little Mali guitar known as a jeli ngoni.

The woman in orange, in the middle, is his wife, Amy Sacko, and they both sing in the band.

(smile!)

My guess is most of their music today was from the 2019 album, Miri.

Curious about their sound?

Here's a 30-minute concert to sample...

you're welcome!

(smile!) 

What about that first concert of the show?

Well, that's the one that really tickled my fancy!

In fact, I liked them so much that I stayed to help with the evening concert, knowing they would be first onstage and that I could leave afterward.

(This time, I was the Street Wench, out on the sidewalk to welcome folks and reassure them that they were at the Metal Building venue.)

I took a seat and shot this, the second photo I took, during the entire music festival, of actual artists inside of their instruments.

That's Jake Blount at the microphone, Laurel Premo sitting down, and Nic Gareiss with the yellow suspenders and blue pants.

That last one is the one who so intrigued me.

See, he wasn't just a singer; he was a dancing musician, making percussive sound as he moved in a style of shufflefoot or flatfoot.

As he described his art: it's "music you can see, and dance you can hear."

All I can say is he is a joy to watch!

Here he is, performing to Laurel Premo's song, "Fine Times At Our House", which is one of the ones performed at this show.

This was has him performing to Jake Blount's "Goodbye, Honey, You Call That Gone", another tune performed by the trio in this large venue with the cozy feel.

And here's one with just him, doing a song that sounds straight out of the 17th and 18th centuries, as did most of their work here.

That last one wasn't at this show, but sure shows off his singing voice!

is it any wonder that I stayed for the second performance of this trio?

Now, let's hope they'll put out a dvd.

I don't think an album would adequately capture them.

Here's hoping!

(smile!)