second life Gig schedule in SL - updated 2/6/2020

Da5id Weatherwax

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Things have changed a bit since this time last year, so update time!

Schedule effective as of latest update (2/6/2020)

Regular events in SL:
Tuesdays
Every other week @ 10am SLT - AdMiRe - Caledonia Park
Weekly @ 1pm SLT - Brazen Head Irish Pub - Second Life Maps | Benvolio

Fridays
Weekly @ 4am SLT - Cafe Musique - Sandness
Weekly @ 1pm SLT - The Night Owl - Sound

Saturdays
Weekly @ 10am SLT - The Boiling Point - Koh Samui

Genre: Mostly (but not exclusively) folk - traditional and modern ballads and story songs.

I'll be playing the same set at these venues each week (changeover to "next week's" set happens on Fridays) with the exception of the biweekly set at AdMiRe, where I will be playing the weekly set from the previous week to avoid playing the same setlist at different venues so close together in time. Each week's set will repeat no more than three songs from the previous week, no song will be repeated more than two weeks in a row without a good reason and most weeks will feature at least one song I haven't performed on the SL stream before.

Horribly pretentious "Artist Bio" under the spoiler...
Da5id Weatherwax is a musician primarily in the folk tradition with a marked preference for ballads and story songs. His folk-music orientation most emphatically does not mean he restricts his repertoire entirely to older or traditional music, it's very much a "living" tradition and if it's a melody-driven song or has a good story to its lyrics he regards it as fair game if he can come up with an arrangement of it that suits his vocal range.

Musically, he began as a chorister in his local church and school choir where he advanced to be both choirs' principal treble soloist before the inevitable onslaught of adolescence on his vocal range brought his career as a classical vocalist to an abrupt halt. It didn't stop him singing altogether though and he began joining music circles in his local pub as soon as he looked old enough to not be promptly thrown out of the place. This early association with traditional music is the source of his drive to understand the history of the music he performs, to know about the events and circumstances surrounding the stories his songs tell and, where possible, to share that with his audience during performances.

Since that time he's been a semi-regular performer for over 30 years in venues on both sides of the Atlantic as varied as folk clubs, bars, church halls, street corners and subway stations, conventions, private parties and now online streaming to virtual venues. Although in the past he would frequently sing with his former wife and their daughter, he is now a solo performer.

Although he's familiar with several instruments he still regards his primary instrument as his voice and these days prefers to perform with a simple guitar accompaniment or occasionally a capella. He avoids pre-recorded backing tracks outside of karaoke bars, taking the view that "If I make a mistake then it proves it's all live, doesn't it?" Effects are limited to a little reverb, soem compression on the vocal channel and - for some songs only - realtime harmony from "Vic and Eddie, the Stompbox brothers" who inhabit a Boss VE2 pedal.

He generally doesn't take requests on the fly because he will normally come to a performance with a rehearsed (and timed to fit his slot) set list, however if there is a song that anyone wants which he either knows or can learn, he'll consider adding it to the rotation for future sets.
 
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Da5id Weatherwax

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New weekly slot added now that the Bohemian Wine Bar has re-opened after their RL-forced hiatus. Main post updated
 

Da5id Weatherwax

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should have updated sooner - oh well, it's done now....