Quarry House Gig

Thanks to everyone-fans and friends-(usually there isn't a difference) who came out and helped make our gig at The Quarry House a success. Jake's friend, Dave flew to Oklahoma and back on the same day and still made it to the show.

We had fun- it sure looks like you all did, too.


And it was great to have out pal, cool cat himself, Derek Huston sitting in.
We wish he'd move back up here and join the band.

We're off to play a wedding in Charleston, SC. Hope to see you all soon.

TRoubadours Treat Tomorrow

(Jake Jack and Mark do it again)

See you tomorrow night, Thursday November ONE for the big Troubadours' dance party/ Halloween relief bash with DEREK HUSTON sitting in at the Quarry House in Silver Spring- right there sort of under Gaylord's on the corner of Bonifant and Gorgeous Georgia Avenue.
No costume anxiety, no need to decorate. Just rock.
You can bring your kids, or you can bring yer candy,
or better yet bring your kids' candy.

Troubadour for a Day

Mark the calender- this Thursday November First, ex Iguana and former DC area native Derek Huston will be flying up from New Orleans with his sax to sit in with the Troubadours at The Quarry House- one night only. It's happened before, but who knows when it might happen again now that Jack O' Dell is playing with Bill Kirchen full time. Don't miss this one.

Halloween

It's just around the corner,
and so is the Troubadours' long awaited rock show
at the Quarry House on November First
Plus there may be a surprise guest...stay tuned.

Troubadours Rock the Quarry

(Troubadours monitor the women's room at all times)




As Joe Dolan's grandmama would say: Women glow, men perspire and horses sweat.
If she saw The Troubadours last night, she would have said: And the band persevered and kicked you know what.
The guys played their hearts out to a very warm room performing their first CD "On the Red Line" in its entirety, and it sounded great. Anyone who wasn't there... well, you missed a great show.

Chill, baby

It's on the Red Line, but all our worries are over. They blew up that little brown box so we can all come out and live in peace and harmony and see THe Troubadours TONIGHT at The Quarry House in Silver Spring- an extremely limited engagement. The band starts around nine and go go goes until midnight or so. Seven bucks will get you in and a few more will get you tater tots, and depending on your own low or high standards, you can get a beer to suit any mood or pocketbook.

Plus it's Jake's birthday so you KNOW the band will set the place on fire.

Troubadours Quarry House Birthday Combo

There's always something happening around here. This month it's Jake Flack's Birthday Extravaganza (a.k.a. The Troubadours gig) at The Quarry House Tavern tomorrow night, August 9, in not so sylvan but the real deal, downtown Silver Spring.
This is the only such gig lined up for August so far. (Too many private things without public access)
So crawl into your cave tonight and rest up, because Thursday is the night to go out. (Leave the weekends to the amateurs)

Hazy Hot and Cool

August in DC means taking cold showers, drinking and eating things with ice in the name, and sneaking off to the beach in the middle of a work week. We should have a hundred words for hazy hot and humid here, but the weathermen just keep repeating the mantra....that and the heat index. ("Yes, it's 99 degrees out there, but it FEELS like 110, folks. You might want to leave the umbrella and your clothes at home today.")

The only way to stay cool is to be cool, and the one sure way to be cool is to go see the Troubadours this Thursday at the Quarry House Tavern in beautiful revised, revamped and redundant down town Silver Spring- Home of the Tasty Diner, the Discovery Channel, and the one and only Mo Nelson.

It Was A Hoot

The Quarry House rocked last night, especially when a band of wild women came in to celebrate Jake's wife, Anne's birthday. The Dollar Jar stumped the band with "Dark Side of the Moon, but Neil Diamond somehow made it. (about 75 cents' worth anyway) And of course, The Beatles' Birthday Song.



(This birthday thing seems to be an ongoing theme for these shows-next month it'll be Jake)



Two Beatnik Flies were spotted lurking in the crowd, making that a quorum.



Look for a rare incarnation of The Flies and Mark Noone later this month at the 9:30 Club's D.C. Space reunion. They'll be making local rock history.

(And if you weren't there last night, you heard it hear first.)

Rare Wild Life

Catch The Troubadours live tonight at The Quarry House in Silver Spring. This month their public appearances are as rare as that weird woodpecker they thought was extinct so get there if you can. Bring a net. Bring your dancing shoes. Bring your dollars and your requests for any song. (If they've heard it; they can fake it.)
The commotion starts rolling around 9 pm.
Don't miss it.

TROUBADOURS - Live Tomorrow NIGHT

The Troubadours are back at the Quarry House in Silver Spring tomorrow night, and if you haven''t checked out this scene yet, well, now's the time. Of course it depends on whether you favor American Idol and the chain type pubs that seem to be everywhere (and boy, the Irish seem to have gotten cornered on that market) or a good old fashioned hole in the wall owned by somebody who serves a dang amazing variety of beers.

And what other band will play a buck's worth of any song on the planet???

Troubadours in July...

Mark your calenders- The Troubadours will be at The Quarry House one week from today...
which may be one of the few gigs in July!

Who's On First?

So it's The Grandsons tonight at The Quarry House with Moe Nelson who also plays with the Hula Monsters of which band Mark Noone of the Rhodes Tavern Troubadours is in, (not to mention Chris Watling of The Grandsons, Moe Nelson, and Jack O' Dell ALL used to play with Bill Kirchen, but that's another story.)

TOMORROW NIGHT it's-JAKE Flack, formerly of A Thousand Dollar Car, JACK O' Dell, who used to play in The Hula Monsters and The Grandsons, too, and MARK Noone who still plays with the Hula Monsters, but will be a Troubadour when THE RHODES TAVERN TROUBADOURS play tomorrow night on the town green in HERNDON, VA.

Just so all that's clear.

Will Trade Grandson for Troubadour

The Troubadours have two dates in Virginia coming up- Thursday on the Town Green in Herndon and Lansdowne on Saturday night. The problem is they are all directionally challenged. As long as The Grandsons are playing tomorrow night at The Quarry House in Silver Spring , some one might considering capturing one that can at least get The Troubadours back over the river to Maryland again.

(photo by Driven on Flickr)