Tonight Tango Mucha Labia played at the North Star Cafe on Munjoy Hill. Yay. Great space, great place to dance, easy for non-dancing diners to eat and watch the dancers without having to be in the dance space, and...a miracle! Three different kinds of gluten-free baked goods! Woohoo! They also have a gluten-free bread for sandwiches. This is good stuff. Tonight I needed FOOD before playing, after a last day at school moving around file cabinets, followed by teaching 5 violin lessons, followed by hoofing it over to the cafe. I chose some kind of oatmeal chocolate chip cookie with flecks of fresh mint leaves. Yum!
The other bonus is that the sound system there is decent, which means that we (well, really Mike since he owns the stuff) don't have to schlep a ton of sound equipment. And there's not a whole lot of setup/teardown. These are good things. These are things that make all four of us want to play there more often.
Whew. Now I will crash so I can get up and shovel mulch with Mom tomorrow. She is "taking the day off" which somehow means shoveling trailerfuls of mulch? I see where I got the go-til-you-drop genes.