{"id":4923,"date":"2013-09-09T23:39:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T04:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=4923"},"modified":"2013-09-10T03:07:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T08:07:46","slug":"music-on-monday-raise-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=4923","title":{"rendered":"music on monday: ‘raise the dead’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s post is a musical number. Rudi and I first discovered Caravan of Thieves<\/a> on the local PBS affiliate when we were in Connecticut visiting my folks. I was so taken with their 15-minute spot that I immediately looked up their schedule to see if they’d be playing locally. [In the process of writing this post, I realized this is totally a lie. I first<\/em> encountered them through their rendition of “The Grinch,” which I included on my 2010 Christmas mix.]<\/p>\n

The quartet, who are based in Connecticut, plays a broad swath of music that could be described as swing\/folk\/jazz\/klezmer fusion. They’re comprised of a husband (who’s particularly talented) and wife team who are the main vocalists\/guitar players\/percussionists, an upright bassist (or, at least, a guy who plays the upright bass), and a violinist\/fiddler.<\/p>\n

They played in Old Town Alexandria a couple weeks ago at a converted single-screen movie theater. It was a beautiful space for a show, but I felt the group either needed a slightly smaller space to make their set feel a little more immediate (that isn’t quite the right word, but it’s the best I can come up with right now) or maybe less inhibiting for the audience or an outdoor space that would have encouraged whirling and twirling.<\/p>\n

“Raise the Dead” was the final song in their encore and one of the songs they invited audience participation for.<\/p>\n