Russellville, Kentucky is a wonderful little town about 45 minutes north-east of Clarksville, Tennessee. Red River Breeze has been honored to play for Russellville's spring festival for the past two years and we traveled to Russellville this past Saturday to play for their 1st "Sounds, Cinema, and More" event at the 4th Street Theatre. The theatre is a 1950's building that is in the process of being renovated to be used as a multi-purpose arts building and this event was held to help raise more money for the renovation. Because the theatre area is not yet habitable, the event was held outside with music by us from 6:00 to 7:00 pm and the screening of a movie starting at 7:15 pm. Six of the eight members of the band attended: Byron, David M., me (Stephanie), Steve, Sarah and Dixie. It is always a pleasure to play for the wonderful folks in Russellville...they were as usual a terrific audience... but we found out that daylight is gone this time of the year at about 6:45 pm! Next time, we'll remember stand lights - and I discovered I really can play the hammered dulcimer pretty much with my eyes closed!
Too bad all eight of us weren't at this event and made it into this picture - it could have been our CD cover! Thanks to Darelene Gooch, the Mainstreet Russellville director, for volunteering to take our picture on David's (intimidating) camera AND for doing such a great job of it minutes before introducing us to begin playing. The casual wall leaning bunch of Steve, Sarah and Dixie is because it was beginning to get chilly at 6 pm and the wall still held quite a bit of heat from the day's absorbtion of sunlight - it must have felt pretty good... I don't think Steve ever got off the wall during the hour he played his bass!
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