The Ponkiesblog

My first missive to blog im so excited ooh, wow, hoo-eee, ok im over it. People are talking or at least they should be. The babylon arts council presents the 6th annual babylon bluegrass festiva in copiague at tanner park saturday 9/16/08 rain or shine 10 bucks 631 587 3696. Lots of stuff and good folks, bring a lawnchair.
The five deadly venoms are at the living room every tuesday in july at 9:30, and every tuesday in august at 10:30 www.myspace.com/thefivedeadlyvenoms or www.livingroomnyc.com There is a band a sunnys this friday 7/18 could be hogzilla check at www.sunnysredhook.com and kate and tone and friends are definitely playing on friday 7/25 10pm and ther will be a jam saturday 7/19 and 7/26 as usual. Look for dock oscar thursdays at freddys backroom and the continuing adventures of the kings county opry www.kingscountyopry.com .
James reams and the barnstormers will be playing in conjuction with the " grand central partnerships 'celebrate summer in midtown' look,listen and lunch " series on friday 7/18 at noon:30 pm 3rd ave at 40th street, www.grandcentralpartnership.org/what_we_do/promote_summer_concerts.asp some people need to practice acronyms. The weekly jam at jalopy www.jalopy.biz is now on momdays at 9:30 pm .
Sue batkin of paddy reillys 2nd and 4th monday of the month slow jam for advanced beginner and intermediate players does NOT wish to announce the formation of a new band that is NOT tentatively entitled as " just practicing" and will DEFINTELY NOT be looking for gigs in or about january, and you certainly didnt hear that from me gsmojo@aol.com. The havens on the other hand are gigging www.myspace.com/thehavensbrooklyn catch them at th teneleven bar on 8/2/08 and at the lakeside lounge on 9/14.
Lilith beitchman offers for culturization at the white rabbit lounge www.whiterabbitnyc.com on tuesday 7/15/08 6-10 PM the mortals theater lnuckleball fund raiser for the upcoming production of "knuckleball " by william whitehurst at the soho playhouse www.fringenyc.org 20 bucks,meet and greet, cashbar and lots of painless ways to separate you from your money, live music,and its a for a good cause.
Castners auction in branchville nj is looking for a bluegrass type band (they are kinda musically illiterate but nice folks) to do something sometime in august and/or september on either saturday or sunday during the day. They dont know how much to spend or much specific yet but they are definitly interested maybe one of you hotshot booking type people could get in touch with dayson engels (that is spelled correctly) at dayson@castners.com, they want a quality band just need a good sales talk.