Just a reminder about my exhibit at huZ Galleries in San Pedro Saturday night. If you're in the greater Los Angeles area, come on down to the beautiful San Pedro Arts District and avoid the heat.
Here's a link to an article in Huffington Post about the show too:
p.1 #10 · Peter Figen Gallery Exhibit this weekend
Greg - I'll be there both tonight for the preview and Saturday night until we close the place down - maybe around ten or so. The two Elvis prints from '54 or '55 will not go up until Saturday, and those are worth the price of admission. Those, obviously, are not mine, but Anthony Bernard's. If you can make it, it would be great to meet you.
p.1 #12 · Peter Figen Gallery Exhibit this weekend
Thanks Chuck. Come on out and sometime in the next couple of months while it's up and we'll go get some grub down there. The preview with the first Thursday Artwalk was last night and it was a lot of fun. Tomorrow should be very interesting.
p.1 #15 · Peter Figen Gallery Exhibit this weekend
Periodically, it's enjoyable and I think appropriate to call out exceptional talents and, in particular, those extraordinarily members who share so much of their work and my gosh - their knowledge - these guys and gals are such bedrocks of our craft, profession and over and over again, our inspiration.
IMHO Peter is one of those rare folks. He's a lifetime of not just experience, but very uncommon, bleeding edge experience few of us will ever know - but we need only ask and he gives it up so kindly and freely.
No matter how simple or complex they may have been, he's executed sessions we can only imagine... but we really don't have to because he just tosses it out and will give us as much of the backstory and his technique as we wish.
I really like and admire this fellow. Not just because of his expertise and generosity, but because he has such heart and I dig that.
So, while Peter is doing his thing tonight... a small toast to a professional life well lived, a pretty darn good guy, and one of the exceptionally accomplished who continue to stick around our FM home and keep on giving.
p.1 #17 · Peter Figen Gallery Exhibit this weekend
Wow Chuck. That is so moving. I'm sincerely and deeply touched. Now you're going to have to get your butt out here so we can go out to dinner. A big thank you to FM member Greg Fountain who showed up last night wearing a Beatles t-shirt and introduced himself. And, of course to Huss Hardan, without whom this would have never happened.
We had a truly great time last night. It was packed. There were several sales and there are more on the way. I put together an iTunes playlist of music from all of the musicians in the show, played, which turned out to be one of my best ideas in a long time, but at the end we turned that down that and pulled out guitars and accordions (but of course - Gee wore the same dress and brought the same accordion she used in her photo) and played and sang a bunch ourselves. To me that's exactly how the night should have ended and did, plus I discovered that my good friend Kat Edmunson whose current band is The Kern River Band once upon a time sang backup for Buck Owens. A freaking Buckarette.
So thanks again for everyone who came out. It was a special evening.
p.1 #18 · Peter Figen Gallery Exhibit this weekend
Peter Figen wrote:
Wow Chuck. That is so moving. I'm sincerely and deeply touched. Now you're going to have to get your butt out here so we can go out to dinner. A big thank you to FM member Greg Fountain who showed up last night wearing a Beatles t-shirt and introduced himself. And, of course to Huss Hardan, without whom this would have never happened.
We had a truly great time last night. It was packed. There were several sales and there are more on the way. I put together an iTunes playlist of music from all of the musicians in the show, played, which turned out to be one of my best ideas in a long time, but at the end we turned that down that and pulled out guitars and accordions (but of course - Gee wore the same dress and brought the same accordion she used in her photo) and played and sang a bunch ourselves. To me that's exactly how the night should have ended and did, plus I discovered that my good friend Kat Edmunson whose current band is The Kern River Band once upon a time sang backup for Buck Owens. A freaking Buckarette.
So thanks again for everyone who came out. It was a special evening.
p.1 #19 · Peter Figen Gallery Exhibit this weekend
Here are a few snaps. Nothing like putting a non musician on the spot and forcing him to actually play and sing in front of other people. Yikes. All things considered I did okay.
At least the guitar is older than me.
Gee is playing some squeeze on Guy Clark's The Lone Star Hotel Cafe
A minor celebrity there on the left.
Kat and Sara drove 3-1/2 hours from Kernville to be there.
