This past Saturday, a 2-minute drive took me to the Student Dance Recital at Forest Roberts Theatre, where I experienced goose-bump raising moments of dance-watching ecstasy, aided by gorgeous, juicy color lighting compliments of NMU lighting genius Vic Holliday. Then 3 minutes from there, I celebrate a friend’s birthday at Flanigan’s, a little downtown bar where the incredibly talented Biscuit Miller & the Mix played for the better part of 4 hours!
To be inches away from their awesome, rockin’-the-house Chicago Blues-playing, complete with Biscuit doing nifty dance moves on top of the bar and handing over his bass to my dancin’-all-night friend Dar – what can I say?!? They even turned a funk piece into “Smoke On the Water” and then a Led Zeppelin tune! All 4 members were amazing, and the youngest to join the group, guitarist Kyle Bledsoe, not only creates a blur of fast moves and heart-throbbing wails, but is quite a vocalist too!
Check them out online and at the Blues Music Awards May 9th, where Biscuit is nominated for Bass Instrumentalist!
I’ll be adding a photo here taken of my husband and I with wonder-drummer Dr. Love once it’s emailed to me.
They were all such warm-hearted and talented people, they really gifted our town with their full-out performance.
Oh, and not to forget the lovely bagpiping of “Happy Birthday” shared by a local before the show!
And to top it all off, a leisurely hike the next day in pleasant weather with good friends at Laughing Whitefish Falls, maybe 30 minutes from home. God, I love this place!
ILCU Shine Your Light 