Sunday, Part 2: Rockin' Celtic Music

[elfs]

So, after boring municipal theater, Omaha and I followed it up with a trip up to see Tricky Pixie in concert, along with about half of Seattle's pagan community. I knew a lot of people there, including Fritz and his lovely wife, loba, solarbird, technoshaman, jenk, cindygerb, lisakit, and at least a dozen more whose names I'm not recalling at the moment.

Tricky Pixie totally rocked. It was everything I'd have any right to hope for from Alec's continuing evolution, Sooj is as amazing as Yamaraashi-chan makes her out to be (and much better in person than she records), the audience alternated between rapture and revelry, and the studio that held the performance gave us all plenty of dance floor. And believe me, we needed every inch of it. From Sooj's "Horny Cat" song do the March of Cambreadth and on down the line, the band gave and the audience gave back.

Omaha even came out and danced, although she paid for it later. She'd really strained her back weeding and raking the dirt I moved yesterday, so dancing wasn't a good idea but she did it anyway.

The girls, needless to say, were thrilled by the whole thing. And while I always knew that Seattle was full of gorgeous pagan women, it was so nice to see so many of them in one warm, energized room. The men... not so much. Sorry, guys. Except for Alec, of course. Whoof.

We didn't get home until 11:00, at which point the girls just passed out in their beds with barely enough energy to brush. Much fun had by all.

(There's a local insurance company, Pemco, that's been running a series of ads describing themselves as "like Seattle, a little bit different." (List of profiles here) I see they haven't gotten to the "Poly Bi Pagan Switch Threesome" profile yet.)

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[lisakit.livejournal.com]

Concert: I paid for dancing too (even tho it was just a little bit). The pain kinda got overshadowed today by this damn sugar thing. Hope the girls weren't too cranky today.

Pemco: I thought you were gonna set up that profile for them? When you gonna post it already?

[icebluenothing.livejournal.com]

Omaha even came out and danced, although she paid for it later.

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. It was pretty amazing to watch.

I see they haven't gotten to the "Poly Bi Pagan Switch Threesome" profile yet.

They're missing out -- it's a huge demographic.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

it's a huge demographic.

Really.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

lesse... k_crow, solarbird, cflute, pocketnaomi (whom you may not have met), skydancer (on sound), vixyish, tfabris, the House Cerulia contingent whose LJ's escape me (at least one has changed recently), dianthus, gfish... there, that's a dozen... ooh, and ladyallyn...

The "horny cat" song is "Callan's Song", and it's actually by stealthcello... well, actually, Callan, the cat in question, dictated it to her. Or so she says. :) But seriously. I've been watching Betsy perform since 1999, at the gaiaconsort release concert for Secret Voices (which is also where I first saw Heather live), and watching first her performance - not technical skill, but playing to the audience - blossom has been a joy, and now she's come out of her songwriting shell... wow. I agree, Alec's voice is coming along *very* nicely; while it doesn't have quite the power of old, between that hot headset mic and audience give-back, he doesn't really *need* it... used to be "Cambreadth" was where that was needed, but these days all they have to do is just sort of tell us where to come in and we blow it back at'em at 120db... And then there's Sooj... :)

Yah, I wish I coulda poured poor Omaha into the hot tub at my place (and so did she, having said as much).... I don't know if that was worth it to her, but it was worth it to me ;)