Musical Family Night at the Narrows

It was mostly father-son night at the Narrows Friday night. Here's a picture of high school senior James Brown sitting in with one of the bands.

James is the son of the bass player of one
of the two bands featured, The Horse's Mouth.

Actually, the evening started out with the Brazilian musician Luciana Horta and her son.


Luciana comes from Minas Gerais, Brazil.













Those two guys with string instruments over there are father-son. The guy on the drum looking at something over to the side is another son. He plays bass, too. All three sing harmonies as only blood relatives can and make up the group Next of Kin, clearly an appropriate name.

They blended folk, country, rock, and Celtic and did a particularly inspired cover of the song "Hurt," which Johnny Cash featured on his last album. If memory serves, "Hurt" is from the rock group Nine Inch Nails.


Down below is The Horse's Mouth, featuring Narrows board member, and bass player, Clem Brown, daddy of the young fella with the violin way up above. (Clem is the guy sitting down with his eyes closed.) The Horse's Mouth did the straight ahead rock 'n' roll thang. Special salute to Clem for volunteering so much of his time to the Narrows. Our board members have a low profile and we don't get the chance to thank them publicly. So your humble blogger will take this opportunity: Thanks Clem! (By the way, I also dug your melodic bass playing.)