Category: GM in ATX

A thousand pardons for the long lapse in reporting! This post summarizes GM weekends from September 16 through October 14. 9-16 Responding to a huge party in Zilker Park, we did our own ACL, but it stood for All Cats Loved. That naturally followed the dog theme back in August, and shows how much we…

Friday, September 9: After another enlightening adwineture at the Kerrville Wine and Music Fest, we brought home our new-found regional favorites and knowledge to the Green Man. One of our most interesting bottles was La Cuvée du Saule from Calais in Dallas. Benjamin, the young French vintner who introduced the drink at a seminar last…

Friday, August 26: Far out, man! The seventies came back with a fury this past weekend as our friends, neighbors, and colleagues sent up my 40 years in the Capital City. I wore bell-bottoms, tie-dye, patchouli oil, and a headband. We consumed beer, wine, broccoli salad, and a rice dish while grooving to great rock…

Friday, Aug. 12: Arf, arf, and arf. Oh, did I mention arf? This night’s theme’s bark was much milder than its bite. With dog days behind us on the calendar only, we invited pups from all over to help us lionize Man’s Beast Friend. Alas, Jubee was our only representative of any breed—but for that…

Friday, Aug. 5: Once again, the Backyard Theater filled the warm evening air with music and lyrics—this time from the four- and six-string guitars and voice of The Second Opinion, perhaps Central Texas’ only unamplified group that plays all your punk-rock favorites. Its personnel are Robyn Gammill and Alex Lewis, who have played together for…

Fri, July 29: Another reason to celebrate this year’s seventh month was that it contained five (5) complete weekends of Friday–Saturday–Sundays—what better reason for hearing songs based on math. For the final July series, we asked our guests to bring their favorite quantities of something to share, so we got one keg of beer, two…

Fri, July 15: Following up on the previous week’s schizoid songs, we turned to a related theme, that of the Full Moon herself. Again, in all my years of music programming, I hadn’t done one on Moon themes. Many, many more will likely come to the reader’s mind. Please feel free to post your own…

Fri, July 8: Somehow, in all my previous party-hosting experience, I never thought to lose my mind with insane music. That deficit is finally, fully overcome with this, my newest music collection. How many bonker songs can you remember? Here’s the program I put together: three two three three three 2.5 three three three three…

Inspired by Cedar Stevens’s annual showing of the 1935 film A Midsummer Night’s Dream, this GM offering happened on St. John’s Day, June 24. It featured many classic summer and sun songs, plus extended quotes from the play and music by Felix Mendelssohn. Several of us wore wings, but our friend Lee’s handmade papier-mâché ones…

The Green Man backyard theater harmonically resounded Friday the 13th, when troubadour Brian Cutean shared his ballads and six-string virtuosity with an intimate audience.  It was a picture-perfect, cool evening, with folks from the neighborhood and beyond marveling at the space, sampling the potluck cuisine, and digging the sounds. The event marked the second presentation…