Last night, our next door neighbor and Jedi guitarist Grant Mazak had several of his cronies over for a rehearsal on his back porch. I took the kids over and eavesdropped for a few minutes, and later went back with Kathy to listen some more. The ensemble, which included guitar, string bass, dobro, lap slide, and harmonica, was excellent, and it was great fun to hear the music and enjoy the enthusiasm of the musicians.

After chatting with the bass player a bit, he prevailed upon me to bring over my ‘cello. I sat in with them for another hour or so until Grant begged off at 10:30pm, still needing to write a paper for the next day’s class. It was wonderful fun to play with that crew, and I hope to get to do it again soon!