Bill Lauf in concert
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Milton, Connecticut. Our good friend and neighbor Bill Lauf did his fall concert at Milton town hall last night and it was his best ever. Even if he were a full time musician, on the road doing concerts all the time he’d be incredible but he has a real day job and writes music and plays on the side.
Great concert, lots of new music and a great variety of old stuff by Bill and others, it was a warm and wonderful evening.
Bill reaching for the high notes.
Bill mostly plays tenor guitars but he’s got a few others as well. I think he played most of these last night and he really made them sing.
It was wonderful! with Bill taking us all over the place…. exuberant, mournful, funny, sassy, intimate, into the desert and snowy new england….. I am still basking in the glow…
Thank you Bill!
and your photos, Richard, capture it!
It was a fun time Joy, all the better because you were there. By the way, I got all the apples, pears, quinces peeled and Anne put together another seven pies. We’re done! Thank god.
Hey, nice shots Richard…but what, no pie for me? Thanks for being there , Joy…the energy in that room was amazing!
great memories of hearing bill play the same venue in the early 80′s a few times….with lui collins once I believe…? i still own and love “songs from the heart”!
Will, thanks for coming back to that little gem of a hall in the woods. Lui and I did play there together in the late 70′s and Horace Williams and I in the 80′s. I think one reason why it’s such a magic atmosphere is because it’s like playing inside a giant guitar…all the surfaces (walls, ceiling and floor) are old wood. I’m very grateful to the Milton Hall Association for preserving the hall all these years in a time when they could have easily sold it off. As I often sing in the bridge to the tune “Georgia On My Mind”..
Other halls reach out to me
Other venues beckon tantalizingly
But in painful (wooden) seats I see
Shear Shop Road leads back to you
Those seats seem to be as old as the hall!
bill -
a great ode to that venerable old hall! am so glad that 80′s tornado spared it.
i also remember seeing susan osborne there – her amazing voice filling the space….and i may be wrong but i also think we saw john mccutcheon there, too.
great memories.
will
I would like to get in contact with Bill Lauf. Could you get me his email address? Thanks, Robbin Levy