Life of Wry

We went to the Melon Ball tonight for another good concert.. this time to see that band ^^. We both remembered attending a kids concert a hundred years ago with the young Peter, at which Dave Nachmanoff played with the much beloved Linda Book. I remember just loving his performance.

We learned tonight — or maybe relearned — that Dave toured for 17-some years with Al Stewart (the Year of the Cat guy). He’s got some chops.. pretty polished musician, performer and songwriter in his own right.

But we REALLY went to this concert tonight to see Brendon, a kid who played baseball for many years with Peter. Brendon was one of our favorite kids — a great baseball player with an even better attitude, who was just the nicest and friendliest little kid around. Brendon was a standout little leaguer and he and Peter both went on to play on a travel team together. At one point, he got in a terrible dirt bike accident and broke his leg. He was down for a long time and, it turns out, his leg never really healed, which brought his baseball playing days to an end. I learned from his dad tonight that it was during this time that he picked up a guitar for the first time. In fact, his first (and only) guitar teacher was tonight’s drummer (who also plays a mean guitar!). The two of them opened the second half of the show with an acoustic duet that was gorgeous…

Brendon is trying to make a go of it as a musician; hope he makes it.. it clearly brings him a lot of joy.

It was a great night of music, saw lots of folks we knew, too. T’was a good time.

L to R: Nick Carvajal (drummer and guitar teacher), Brendon Tull (bass), Dave Nachmanoff (guitar, piano), a harmonica guy who played for two songs (and was amazing), and Martin Lewis (guitar).