Year of the Labbit: Night of 1000 Cupcakes

Year of the Labbit: Night of 1000 Cupcakes: "Pipkin's friend Kelly from Hot Mustard invited him to listen to the band play at the Cupcake Festival in Jaffrey NH yesterday. It was a rea..."

Cupcake Festival, Bluegrass Festival, White Water Festival & National Mustard Day

Diversity is fun!

Jaffrey Cupcake Festival July 21!

Hot Mustard has been invited to play the Jaffrey Cupcake Festival.  Yes, Cupcakes!  It's our first time although Bill and April have played it before.  Temperatures are supposed to be upper 90s, so there will be melty cupcakes.

(I'm hoping to see some Dexter cupcakes like the last picture)

It's at the Jaffrey Civic Center, and they call it Night of 1000 Cupcakes

We play off and on in between auctions, raffles and announcements of the winners from 5:30-8:00.

Think there will be a Hot Mustard cupcake?  Not sure I'd eat it.

Ossipee Bluegrass Festival July 21-24!

We're really excited about this one!  South Hiram Maine, we play the main stage from 2-3pm Friday; then a dunk in the brook (another hot one).  Last time we went, we camped near the yellow bulldozer, not sure where we'll be this time.  

It's a great festival and fantastic lineup.  If you live near by come check it out.  http://www.ossipeevalley.com/

Here’s the 2011 lineup: The Grammy Nominated Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band, The Grammy Nominated Infamous Stringdusters, The Kruger Brothers, Sierra Hull, Red Molly, The Wiyos, The Spinney Brothers, The Hillbenders, The Frank Vignola Quartet, Eilen Jewell, Old Sledge, Miss Tess and the Bon Ton Parade, GiRL Howdy, Cribstone Bridge, The Bagboys, Wide Open Spaces, Hot Mustard, Local Circus and some more that we will tell you about later!

Wow!

Deerfield Festival July 30th!

Lets blend Bill & April's love of churning white water and kayaks, and Hot Mustard.  We're playing at the annual Deerfield Festival to benefit the White Water association.

http://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/Wiki/aw:events_deerfield

This is April (I'm told) in the Grand Canyon.  They said they had a good time, I'm just glad they got out alive!

We play from 7-9 that night; and are really looking forward to it.

Finally, 

August 6th is National Mustard Day.  

So be sure to hug your mustard

Maybe next year we'll be invited to Wisconson.

http://mustardmuseum.com/

Getting Busy

First I guess I should update you on Jenny Brook.  We had a great time, we hosted the Sugar Shack Jam Friday night, and had two sets Saturday.  The weather sure didn't co-operate, but it was a pretty full house there anyway.  We had fun hanging out with friends, camped near Dave and Shawna, our CT crew, Elise and her smurf tent, Grace & Sam (finally met the infamous Steve Roy who performed all of the Scoobie Doo theme Saturday night on mandolin).

The TN Mafia Jug band brought up Shad Cobb, who was amazing.  A violent thunderstorm interrupted the Jug Band's last set; we sat in the rented camper waiting it out.  I guess some buildings were hit by lightening and a number of campers felt the tingle of electricity.  I decided it was a good idea to get on stage and dance with Lonesome Lester.  Not sure there's any video of that, so far I've found one picture. Dick Bowden told me I dance like Elaine Bennis of Seinfeld.  That's sort of what I expected.

All in all, it was a lot of fun!


Following Weekend was Mineral Springs in Stafford Springs CT

We had a great time at Mineral Springs Bluegrass Festival.  It was the first time there for everyone in the band but me (Kelly).  I drove down last year because my friends were playing there.  Bruce was working with the brothers and couldn't go.  They had The Old Time Bluegrass Singers, Grassroutes and TrueGrass.

Those bands were all there again this year, along with Phil Zimmerman's band Last Fair Deal (who played a lot of the non bluegrass tunes you would hear if my ipod were on shuffle, John Hiatt, Gillian Welch, Bob Dylan etc.  They were fun, and Tom had a sweet little button accordion.

We got to camp near the frog pond again, and man can those bullfrogs hit some low notes!  We figured out they were mostly in A, though would adjust to the key we were playing in.  Here is Bruce in front of the frog pond.  I wish I had gotten a picture of our compound, we camped with Tex and Robin Orlomoski, and Phil Zimmerman & Marcia Goodman.  Others joined us over the weekend.

Tex was sporting a new guitar from Ebay, it's a pretty sweet Martin.

Eileen Anderson took some nice photos of us onstage.

Looks like we're invited back for next year, and we're looking forward to it!  Thanks to Bill Goodale for hiring us (he was the first festival promoter to hire us last year) and to Harry Grant for doing sound.  We tried out our new microphone, Audix SCX-25 (lollipop mic bought from Cobra sound who did sound at Strawberry Park).  Reviews were great of our sound, we'll keep using it.  

We're off to Hancock NH tonight (Thursday July 7th), Keene NH tomorrow (July 8th) at Fritz Fries, Newbury NH Saturday (July 9th), and Greenfield MA Tuesday (July 12).  Check our schedule online for details.  

Hope to see you soon!