I heard from the one-and-only Muffy Junes over Thanksgiving. She’s down in Florida, doing Muffioke for the snowbirds and old rich folks. She says she’s thinking about coming home in the spring, so I thought I’d help encourage her and you can, too. All you need to do is log onto her website at www.muffyrocks.com, where there is a large button for emailing her. Tell her why you think she should come home…

Quite a number of friends and family gathered at the Rudyard Kipling on November 22 to pay tribute to the late Gordon Graham, an eccentric singer-songwriter who died in September at forty-seven of lung cancer. The tribute, put together by Graham’s high school friend, publicist and former public radio personality Leslie Stewart, was an interesting mix of Louisville’s acoustic music community, including danny flanigan, John Corder, Marcy French, Serpent Wisdom’s Jak Son Renfro and Ken Luccese, Heidi Howe, Joel Timothy, Langan Smith, Bill Ede, Woody Mauldin and yours truly. Members of Graham’s family were also there. There were a number of surprised comments from those attending about the range of friends Graham had.

The event was also a fund-raiser for the St. John’s Center, where Graham lived out his last years. Graham’s CDs are on sale at ear X-tacy records and proceeds from the sale of those will also benefit the Center.

There’s a new Louisville music television show kicking off on Thursday, November 16 at Gerstle’s Place in St. Matthews. The show, “The Players Spot,” will be taped every Thursday for the next thirteen weeks (and possibly more) and will feature two singer-songwriters as guests, plus the house band Tingo, performing all original material. The guests for November 16 will be Brigid Kaelin and Joel Timothy.

Guests for the November 23 will be Mark Stampley and one guest TBA. The November 30 taping will feature Leigh Ann Yost and danny flanigan.

The show will air on WYCS24 (138 Insight Cable) with a schedule time of 8 p.m. Tuesdays. The launch date is not firm but will likely begin in early December.

A jam session will both precede and follow the taping of the show. There is currently no cover for this event.

Brigid Kaelin competed in the first round of “Nashville Star” and will be in Nashville until Saturday.
She was interviewed by a reporter from the Tennessean and got her photo on the front page of the newspaper. You can see it here

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