Brad Spurgeon's Blog

The Ptit Bonheur la Chance open mic, as readers of this blog will know, continues to amaze and surprise. Last night it was well attended, but not totally standing-room-only as it can sometimes be. But last night it surprised me by the sudden variety of all sorts of new and different performers from the usual ones.

The styles varied from electric jazz guitar to opera to violin in a sometimes strange trio. And there were other usual acts, singers and songwriters of the kind that we are used to seeing there. But all in all, it was a real pleasant surprise on the music side of things.

I played my song “Since You Left Me,” for the first time in a long time, and then I did “Cat’s In the Cradle,” even though I had the feeling that I had just sung it there within my last two or three visits. In any case, it was a very satisfying evening, and I managed to get a lot more videos than on Monday night….