We had the opportunity to dine at Della’s After Dark in Brandon again last evening. The food is absolutely spectacular, and they have been working hard to support live jazz every Friday and Saturday. Recently, they added Thursday to the jazz menu with music from Fil Pate, who appears as Filoop, playing multiple guitar layers…
Day Two (August 8) of the craziness began just as Day One did, at Della’s After Dark, with Fil Pate, performing as Filoop, looping his guitar and mandolin in beautiful style. I am truly amazed that jazz was the most recent of his musical genre acquisitions. He had another stellar first set before I had…
Owing to insanity, I embarked on a three-day tour of multiple-venue, multiple-performer nights. Honestly, it didn’t start that way, but it just seemed to blow up on me. The initial Friday (August 7th) plan was simple: I would go to Skipper’s Smokehouse to see Serotonic and the Legendary JCs. That was before I got a…