Peter Cooper and Eric Brace great Concert!!!
The long anticipated return of Peter Cooper and his wonderful musical companion Eric Brace was everything expected and more. The duo played to a capacity crowd at
Crazy Crow. The skies were just grey enough that an outside concert was not possible, but the little venue was stuffed, many people stopped to say afterward how much they appreciated the concert, loved the music, loved the desserts and in general had a great time with Peter and Eric. The only thing that could have been better was the we missed Charlotte Cooper and the visit was short. It was great to meet Maryanne Brace too. Check out the pictures of the show. I took a couple of pictures around town and Savannah Lewis has done a great job on the photo album from the concert itself.
We hope Peter and Eric will come back again soon.
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Here is an excerpt from Peter Cooper's blog about his trip to Alasak on myspace:
Friday, we rose early and drove back to Anchorage, eating a seafood lunch at F Street Station (it's located… on F Street) before catching a charter plane to Seldovia. The pilot not only flew us there, he offered a guided tour of the glaciers, mountains and wildlife of the Anchorage area and the Kenai Peninsula. Eric even shot a bear… well, actually Eric shot a picture of a bear, from the air. The bear was fine. If you're ever in Alaska and need a charter, try Sound Aviation.
Seldovia, Alaska, is a place I think I could live. It's a tiny place, connected to a stretch of land on one side so that it can't be called an island but completely inaccessible by car. You have to either fly there or boat there. We flew, of course, and were met at the airport (a dirt runway) by Susan Mumma, who runs the Seldovia Rowing Club and the Crazy Crow Concert Series. Susan is also a singer-songwriter, and she also heads up the Seldovia Arts Council. A talented and involved lady, then. She drove us to the Rowing Club, and Eric, Mary Ann and I walked around the town for a bit and had a seafood dinner before the gig. We stopped down at the dock, and watched some fishermen weigh and filet a 160 pound halibut. While the fish was on the scale, Eric and I made Mary Ann take our picture, posing as if we'd caught the fish. A proud moment, for sure. Then I heard someone call my name, and it turned out that my friend Bill and his family had boated over from Homer just to see the show. There is nothing like being thousands of miles from home and realizing that people are happy to see you. That puts a quick end to any loneliness. Before the show, we had a seafood dinner at one of Seldovia's two major dining establishments. While eating, we saw:
1) A bald eagle flying
2) A sea otter playing in the water
3) Bill and his family puttering around their boat
4) Snow-capped mountains
5) Fresh mussels, salmon and halibut, prepared beautifully and devoured with speed
Then we played, and it was an absolute blast. We drew more than 10 percent of the town's population, so on a per-capita basis we might as well have been doing Central Park in New York. Except I think I'd rather play for a capacity crowd of 35 people in Seldovia (pop. 282) than play in New York City. The mayor showed up, as did several young musicians and many of the folks who'd seen me play last year. Eric and I sang and played without amplification. It sounded like two guys singing in a living room, because it was essentially two guys singing in a living room. There's an energy to Seldovia that I haven't found anywhere else. I'd love to hunker down there for a winter week or two. After the show, we hung around with Susan for a while, and then we went to bed in great rooms at the Rowing Club. Perfect.e: