The Mustn't Grumble

Pete's Candy Store, Saturday, June 17, 2006. 8pm.

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Photos from Pete's Candy Store, Brooklyn

Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 11211

Stainbar, Saturday, May 27, 2006. 8pm.

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Photos from Stainbar, Brooklyn

The Stainbar
766 grand street
brooklyn, ny 11211
(L to Grand, 1 block west)

On the way home from Brooklyn

Jimmy Tingle's All-American Torture Cabaret, Thursday, April 20, 2006. 7:30pm.

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Jimmy Tingle's All-American Torture Cabaret: A Musical Frolick Through the War-On-Terror
Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway 255 Elm Street, Davis Sq., Somerville, MA
By T - Red Line to Davis Square. Take a right out of the station on to Elm Street and walk 2 blocks. We are on the left at 255 Elm Street. Look for Marquis with flashing arrow.

Zeitgeist Gallery, Saturday, January 21, 2006. 9-12pm.

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Photos at the Zeitgeist Gallery

Zeitgeist Gallery, Inman Square
1353 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA.

Zeitgeist Gallery, Saturday, December 3, 2005. 8-11pm.

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Zeitgeist Gallery

Perfect Blend Coffeehouse, Friday, November 25, 2005. 8-10pm.

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Our friends and family in Albany

Perfect Blend Coffeehouse
376 Delaware Avenue,
Delmar, NY.

Central Square "Arts Central" Festival, Sunday, September 18, 2005. 12-1pm.

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Central Square "Arts Central" Festival Weekend
Central Square (Massachusetts Ave. and Prospect Street),
Cambridge, MA.

Cafe Barbes, Sunday, September 4, 2005. 9pm-midnight.

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Photos from Cafe Barbes

Cafe Barbes
376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.)
Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY.

World Fellowship Center, Saturday, August 27, 2005. 8pm.

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World Fellowship Center
Conway, NH.

Cape Cod Folk Festival, May 21, 2005. 5:30-6:30pm.

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Headlining at the Cape Cod Folk Festival
Information for the entire weekend including
our children's musical games workshop and camping
is available on the festival website.
South Shore YMCA Camp Burgess, Sandwich, MA (ext 107 or 109)

Photos from the Cape Cod Folk Festival

The Muddy Charles Pub, Friday, May 13, 2005. 8:30-11:00pm.

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Photos of the MG at the Muddy Charles

Muddy Charles Pub
Walker Memorial Building, MIT
142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

Conkling Hall, Friday, April 15, 2005. 8pm.

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Friday, April 15, 8pm. (doors open 7:30pm) $5
Conkling Hall
8 Methodist Hill Road,
Rensselaerville, NY 12147.
phone:
alternate phone:
DIRECTIONS

You think you have a lot of picnics in your life. You think of yourself as the kind of person who goes for lazy picnics on beautiful Spring afternoons. But then if you think back and really try to count them up, there's only a few. Only a few such picnics that you can really recall. And well, this was one of ours.

Matthias Finke had flown all the way from from Germany to visit Stephanie Holmes, our lovely bassoonist and singer, and to see her play. I guess she sang well, since we are delighted that now they are husband and wife! He wandered off and took these photographs while we took a nap."

WAMC, Hudson Valley NPR, Friday, April 15, 2005, 11:20am-Noon.

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Friday, April 15, 11:20am-Noon.

WAMC (National Public Radio in the Hudson Valley)
Performance Place with Host Paul Elisha. We're excited about this, since the show apparently has several hundred thousand listeners. So if you tune in you will be in good company WAMC Live Streaming

Photos from Performance Place

Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway, March 25-26, 2005.

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Photos from show with the Walsh Brothers
at Jimmy Tingle's Offbroadway

March 25 & 26 THREE SHOWS:
Friday, 7:30pm. Saturday 7:30 and 9:30pm
Scene Music for the Walsh Brother's Comedy Show
Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway
255 Elm Street, Davis Sq., Somerville, MA

By T - Red Line to Davis Square. Take a right out
of the station on to Elm Street and walk 2 blocks.
We are on the left at 255 Elm Street. Look for
Marquis with flashing arrow.

Martha's Vineyard, Saturday Jan 29, 2005. 9pm.

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Offshore Ale Company
Kennebec Ave. Oak Bluffs, MA.
on the island of Martha's Vineyard. (508) 693-2626

Martha's Vineyard was blanketed in 2 and half feet of snow that weekend. It's beautiful in the Winter there. We played for mostly locals. We also recorded at a local cottage. Here are a few tracks from the show and from recording that weekend.

Toad, Thursday Jan 27, 2005. 8pm.

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Toad is a wonderful little pub in Porter Square.

Nina Violet and Ben Vigoda play folk music with Stephen Clair at

Toad, 920 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA. (617) 497-4950

J.P. Licks, Wednesday Dec 1, 2004. 8pm.

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"We'd like to thank JP Licks for tolerating our Guerilla Art Operation!"

This was the VERY FIRST SHOW for The Mustn't Grumble. Nina Violet (viola), Shawn Hershey, Stephanie Holmes, and Ben Vigoda played.

J. P. Licks, 647 Center Street, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA.

Mustn't Grumble Links

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Booking The Mustn't Grumble

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Hosting The Mustn't Grumble

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Find a place for us to play:
We can happily play at your house or other available public space if there is enough room for the people you intend to invite and if it is comfortable for all. You can also investigate a space where you think it would be great for us to play:

1. Find out who decides if/when/how music happens there.
2. Tell them you like us and our music and ask if we can play there.
3. Point them to our website or get their address and contact us to send them a press kit.
4. You might have to check back with them a few times to help the process along.

It's really pretty easy and it's a great way to meet new folks!

Get a bunch of folks to come:
Think of it as throwing a party with The Mustn't Grumble as your entertainment! Invite 10 or 20 of your closest friends :). Invite them by email a week or two in advance and then talk to them on the phone a few days before the show to see if they are definitely coming.

Publicize it:
We have a publicist whose job it is to post our shows on radio and newspapers, but it would still be really awesome if you wanted to do something like make a poster for the event (There are also posters for download in .pdf format here) and put it up at the place where we will play, at the local library, local coffee shops, or where-ever. Then we all have a cool souvenir of the show. Or you could stage a Performance Art Happening and stop traffic in a busy intersection to announce the second coming of the Mustn't Grumble!

Set up the space:
- Make sure there is a place for us to park when we arrive.
- Make sure there is a place for us to unpack and (safely) store our instrument cases.
- If possible, clear venue at least 2 hours in advance for setup and sound check.
- Arrange for food for the musicians.
- Help arrange for a place for the musicians to sleep.

Play Host:
Food, drink, take tickets (if venue requires it), give directions to people trying to come, deal with the police when they come to shut us down for lighting our instruments on fire, stuff like that.

Mistress or Master of Ceremonies:
You get to get up on stage to kick off the show in some way that suits you. Like, "these are my friends, they never complain, and I like their music," or, LADIES AND GENTS, Spiders and Salamanders, all the way from New England, The Mustn't Grumble Rockin' Old-Timey Gypsy Jazz Folk Swing Band!!!!!"

Invite other musicians, if you want to:
We love to jam and meet other local musicians. So if you have friends who
are good players, have them share the night with us or maybe we can
arrange to have them join us on some tunes. Or we could all play games
for song or such.

Sound System Information (for venues)

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- Stage area should be adequate for the number of musicians (usually 5) playing the show.

- Coffee House: The MG doesn't own our own PA system. We have instrument amplifiers (including for Ben's singing) for small venues.

-House Concert: A house concert up to 20 audience members generally requires no amplification. More audience members will require "coffee house" style amplification as described above.

- Outdoors: We have an FM radio transmitter system that can work well for outdoor performances if the venue can provide a number of "boom boxes" to distribute around the area. For an outdoor show, we require at least 2 monitor speakers, with at least 1 monitor mix.

- Other venues:

For clubs, ballrooms, theaters, etc. we require at least 2 monitor speakers, with at least 1 monitor mix.

- Outputs from our microphones and direct boxes:

Guitar - 1 XLR output from L.R. Baggs direct box.
Trumpet - 1 XLR microphone output from our bell-mounted trumpet mic.
Bass - 1 balanced direct line out from bass amp (or you can mic the amp's speaker).
Saxophone or Fiddle - 1 sm57 with boom stand.
Vocals - 3 Sure SM58 microphones with boom stands.

Contact Us!

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For booking, hosting, CD's, or other email:

ben "at sign" themustntgrumble.com