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January 24, 2026. We entered the 2026 NPR Music Tiny Desk Contest with "Jitney," one of our songs set in the urban hills of Pittsburgh's East End. This is our 9th year participating and we love being part of the fun.
October 27, 2025. Our first concert at Lutheran SeniorLife Passavant Community in Zelienople just north of Pittsburgh went great! Residents and their guests filled the room and quite a few folks stayed after to chat while we packed up.
October 4, 2025. Today was a double header! We started at “Fall in Love with Mellon Park,” an event sponsored by the City of Pittsburgh featuring family-friendly activity booths with a wide variety of crafts and games in a well loved park in the East End. It was a crisp Autumn afternoon and the humans and pets in attendance seemed to be enjoying themselves. Next, we headed downtown for an Oktoberfest celebration along the Allegheny River, and across the Roberto Clemente Bridge, Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix, Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership and Flyspace Productions did a fabulous job with logistics and promotions, attracting thousands. Our set on an outdoor stage in the beer garden followed a Dachshund race and preceded a Stein beer holding contest. It was great to see so many folks enjoying themselves, the music and the activities.
September 24, 2025. A resident at Providence Point retirement community captured animated pictures of our gig and the socializing that followed. Other residents included former colleagues of Gary's from his days as an environmental engineer at Alcoa, which was a happy coincidence.
August 21, 2025. Our Concert in the Courtyard at the Mt. Lebanon Public Library drew a fabulous crowd tonight! Every chair was claimed, cement walls became benches, folks stood along the perimeter, and a few even listened from behind the fence! Thanks to the Friends of the Library for sponsoring the series and to Eric, one of the librarians, for the artsy picture framed by a shrub in the garden.
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July 18, 2025. Riverlife's new Shore Thing on Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Heritage Trail between the Roberto Clemente Bridge and Andy Warhol Bridge is so cool! The floating platform, accessible by a ramp, is supported by 10 barges that are anchored to the bottom of the Allegheny River. Energy is provided by solar panels and there is a concession stand and tables chairs along with nets stretched out directly over the water that folks can sit on. Our gig ran for a couple of hours immediately prior to a Pirates game at the nearby stadium so there were lots of baseball caps and jerseys on board. It was a beautiful night and Pittsburgh was looking mighty fine.
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May 21, 2025. The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership had us back for another lunchtime concert in Mellon Square today. A friend surprised us, and brought a companion, and we enjoyed serenading them while they ate. Other attendees included a woman who, it turns out, works in the same building Gary used to work in (pictured here). As locals know, meeting someone new and immediately discovering a connection is very much a Pittsburgh thing.
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May 15, 2025. Tonight we returned to Providence Point, a retirement community near Pittsburgh. We’ve done several shows there so we’ve gotten to know many of the residents, and they’ve gotten to know us. One resident who had rescheduled her birthday dinner with her family so she could come to our concert ended up winning our giveaway so she went home with a gift. Good karma.
May 10, 2025. Three years ago we performed at a private party hosted by a Squirrel Hill family and today we were back for round two! It was a beautiful spring day, the garden setting was lovely, and the guests seemed to be enjoying the yummy spread and each others’ company.
January 15, 2025. For our first gig of the new year, we returned to the Pittsburgh International Airport for another airside performance. The stage had moved again due to the major construction underway and we liked the new location, right next to the top of one set of escalators to the train bringing travelers to and from the landside terminal. Between songs, we met a family celebrating a child's milestone (they asked us to sing Happy Birthday, which we did, with harmony), a pilot who just opened a private airport in West Virginia, and a waiter who popped over with a tip!