When: Monday nite 6/20, 7:30pm EST
(“doors” open at 7 for community hang)

Where: https://youtu.be/hlS3n6w_vLY

Who gets 10%: https://www.conncoll.edu/giving/ways-of-giving/gifts-of-cash/ Connecticut College
My alma mater. Really the whole reason you see me playing music. I got my biology degree there yet this place let me kinda “minor” in music - auditing classes, borrowing an upright bass for 2 years, coffeehouse, Gospel choir, and fostering an overall community of music that I became part of. Thanks CC.

http://paypal.me/vancevancevance or
https://venmo.com/vancevancevance or
a check to VanceFunder P.O. Box 17,
Arlington, MA 02476 for this web-groovery.
Pay or not, up to you. Let’s stay connected.

This week's pajamas; whatever’s clean...oh never mind, I don’t care about that either.

NEW ALBUM. Donate any amount = name on the cover. Same links above, note “VanceFunder”. Any amount over $1 works, but $1000 -plus- makes you exec producer, name in heavy black font.

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“What kind of music do you play?” asked the older man of the couple as we all waited for our respective transports to the airport. Me - “Oh, a mixed bag of my own stuff, some jazz standards, some country...”

“Well hopefully you play something that has a melody”, chimed his wife. “We were at a pizza shop and all there was was ‘boom boom boom, blah blah, blah, boom boom boom’...” Shakes her head. Rolls her eyes.

I hope I wasn’t too bristly one I said, “Well, your parents probably said the same thing about Benny Goodman...”

“Oh, I doubt that - that music had melody.”

I smiled and said, “One of the wonderful things about music is that it’s another place where both appreciation and listening skills can steadily and readily evolve, given half a chance.”

Aren’t you proud of me? That’s about as lip-bit as I got, blood not yet trickling down my shirt. I didn’t even get a good sigh in as she turned away, when he leaned in to me, out of her earshot and said, “Actually I’m a big fan of Ray Charles and Willie Nelson”, and I replied “Yeah, I only played ‘Funny How Time Slips Away’ once this week, and I didn’t rap at all.”

He winked.