Andrew Vladeck

Tornado Tracks

Cherry blossoms swept up in a dust devil - I walk through a pink tornado and voila: it’s springtime for Brooklyn.  A Mockingbird on an antennae above Fulton Street  confuses and delights with the Mr. Softee song.  Huh, nature’s got talent.   My neighbor’s dog Vu (for Velvet Underground) walks me down the street as cups of coffee walk art students up.

I just got hold of my new record: “The Wheel.“  Blessed springtime: newness, fresh air - progress in various forms, intoxicating and inescapable.  With thanks to my artist friends, musical and visual, and my mates at End Up Records. 

Dates are filling in for the Record Release tour, where I hope to see you.   My record is available 6/6.  The hometown release headlines the Mercury Lounge 7/7.  Read all about it at this website.

And summer shapes up with fun festival gigs - big ones, all over the country (countries?  Canada too)!  With my band of brothers: The Honey Brothers.   And i hope to cross path with my dear collective folk explosion, Balthrop, Alabama. 

I was so caught up I didn’t write you for ages with tales of wondrous musical moments: the Vaudville-esque night which i got to host, playing old-time banjo, where backstage had the privilege of helping a burlesque dancer into her monkey suit - this happened regularly along the Bowery 100 years ago.  Good people, The Wheel is coming full circle in all it’s wondrous ways.  Many of them GOOD.  Check it out.

Posted on 05/14/09 at 11:29PM | Filed under: blognews