Archive for April 2023

Work for our new small group started to trickle in with an occasional gig here or there and the inevitable personnel changes that occur in a developing enterprise. For the first two or three years we had a fairly stable line-up of Gary on keyboard, Matt Otto or Javier Vergara, tenor sax, Ryan McGillicuddy, bass,…

I suppose the biggest event in my early years growing up in Moredun was the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. It took place on June 2, 1953, in Westminster Abbey, the thirty-ninth British Sovereign to be crowned there. The Coronation service used on such occasions descends directly from that of King Edgar of Bath in…