Saturday Night....

Look at this.  Excuse the darkness and just look at it.  It's Kane Welch Kaplin playing in my friggin living room. 

Amazing....

This might be one of the songs that made us cry....I'm not sure.  What I do know is that they made Ernie's heart light...and my heart light....and that is all I wanted.  They made us remember how wonderful so many things in our life are.  Fuck bile duct cancer, fuck prostate cancer, fuck alzheimer's, fuck spinal stenosis and old age....they may cause us  pain but there is also great joy in our lives; our boys, our families, our friends and most definitely our music as well.

To love this music so and then to love the people that make it is very special.  It doesn't always work like that.  Small living rooms in Central Illinois are not Kane Welch Kaplin's usual venue suffice to say....and the fact that they kindly agreed to do this is something for which I will be forever grateful.

People at the party varied from those already hardcore Kane Welch Kaplins fans to those that knew we were having music but had no idea who they were....  I have been reveling in the response from everyone because one of the things we really wanted to do was to SHARE this music with those that love us.  So having people say the music was transcendent or was the best concert they'd ever been to (thank you Chloe) or want to know how to get a cd---those things thrill us to the core.  Ernie has spent a lot of time over the last fifteen years telling people about these guys and playing their music for them and the other night all he had to do was sit back and let them play....

Thank you Kieran, Kevin, Fats and Lucas.  Thank you with all of our heart....

I actually don't have many pictures because I was too busy having a good time but here are a few....