Moonlight Gardens

Over the Rhine had their album launch concert at Moonlight Gardens at Coney Island on August 31st . A bunch of Columbus-ites came down for the show: Faith, her sister Susanna, and Susanna's roommate Beth; Brecka and Drew; Dave and Krista; Kate. Canal Street fan Steve and his wife Sarah were there too, and helped me save seats (right up front) for everybody.

The show was really good. The weather was perfect - cool, dry, clear sky with stars visible, a slight breeze.

Here's the set list. Everything is from Trumpet Child unless otherwise noted.

• I Don't Wanna Waste Your Time
  
• I'm On A Roll
• Entertaining Thoughts
• Let's Spend The Day In Bed
• Nothing Is Innocent
• Trumpet Child
• Who'm I Kiddin' But Me (described by Karin as "A trashy little song I wrote")
  
• Trouble
• And Can It Be (Till We Have Faces)
• We're Gonna Pull Through (Snow Angels)
• Long Lost Brother (Ohio)
• Ohio (Ohio)
• B.P.D. (Ohio)
• Orphan Girl (cover)

And the encore set:

• Don't Wait For Tom
• If A Song Could Be President

And the second encore set (which featured a violinist from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra):

• Hush Now (Stella's Tarantella) (Drunkard's Prayer) (one of my favorites)
  
• I Want You To Be My Love (Drunkard's Prayer) (Brecka & Drew danced to their song)
  
• Drunkard's Prayer (Drunkard's Prayer)

And now the pictures...

Waiting for the doors to open...


Brecka and Drew helping save seats...



Faith...


New set decorations - very spiffy...


The opener. I didn't catch his name...


The band - a much bigger group than in previous years...


Mickey the drummer. It's hard to get a good shot of him since he's always moving...

Another band shot, this time with the woman who sang backup... She was very good.


The violinist that played during the encore was really good.


Dave and Krista and Brecka and Drew had a good time...

Joseph-Beth

Over the Rhine did a free show at Joseph-Beth Booksellers on Thursday. Kristin was in town visiting family, so we met up at the bookstore to watch the show. Erin and Dean and two of their cooking friends came along as well.

It was very crowded at the bookstore. They were having a book signing at the same time, so it was quite nicely packed.

The concert was good. Mostly songs from Trumpet Child. I like the new album, some of the songs quite a lot, but as a whole I think I may like Drunkard's Prayer better. At least so far.

I didn't write down the set list, but they played 5ish songs including Trumpet Child, Orphan Girl (encore), and maybe I Don't Wanna Waste Your Time. They're touring with a bigger band than last time, and had 4 of the 6 there. No Mickey, and the new guitar player wasn't there either. But, really, I don't think they could have fit any more people on the "stage", anyway.

"How many times have you seen them?"

Asked Sarah (about Over the Rhine), at Taste of Cincinnati last weekend. I think I'll try and count. Here goes:

• That free concert at Eden Park when I was in junior high.
• That free concert at Xavier when I was in college (with Faith).
• That free concert at Taste of Cincinnati. Chris and his mom; Mike, Elena, and Sophia; and Sarah. 2007.
  
• That Little Brothers concert with Sarah & Faith & friends
• That Little Brothers concert with Kate
• That Little Brothers concert where Lissa used my ticket because I was stuck in Cincinnati because of snow.
  
• That Canal Street show where we couldn't get in because Melissa forgot her ID.
  It was in the car on the way home from this one that Faith introduced me to Enter the Worship Circle.
  
• That Canal Street show where we sat on the hard benches. Kelly came to this one.
  
• That Canal Street show where we sat on the hard chairs next to the hard benches. I think this was the one where the real opener didn't show up and some guy filled in.
  
• That Canal Street show where we sat at the white tables and Kim Taylor was the opener. 2005?
  
• That Canal Street show where we sat at the white tables and Trent Wagler was the opener. 2006?
  
• That Canal Street show where we sat at the white tables and Ellery opened. That was earlier this year with Brecka. Steve's friends brought us barbecue to eat while we waited in line. 2007
  
• That Christmas show where we sat on the floor and my family came. There were a bunch of openers.
• That Christmas show where we sat on the floor and not all my family came. Griffin House opened, with somebody else, too.
• That Christmas show where we sat in the balcony. I think Kim Taylor and the lady who sang the sandal song opened. Faith was at this one. Christmas 2005?
  
• Christmas 2006. They had the audience sing a Christmas carol. It was good.
  
• That show at the Music Mill in Indianapolis. 2005?
  
• That show at Moonlight Gardens. 2005?
  
• That show at Southgate House with Kate and Faith.
• That show at Joseph-Beth with Kristin, Erin, Dean, and two friends whose names I can't remember. 8/30/2007.
  
• That show at Moonlight Gardens for the Trumpet Child album launch with Faith, Susanna, and Beth; Brecka and Drew; Dave and Krista; Kate; Steve and Sarah. 8/31/2007.
• The 2007 Christmas Show at the Taft Theater with Brecka, Drew, Joe, Chris. Faith & Mike were there, too. 12/15/2007.
• Canal Street w/ Joe. Sometime springish 2008.
• Christmas Show 2008: The first decade. With Joe, Brecka, Jennifer, Josh, & Hope.
• Christmas Show 2008: The second decade. With Joe, Brecka, Drew, Sarah, & Joe's friend James.
• St. Elizabeth's Christmas 2008. With Joe, Faith, & Mike. We stood back behind the coffee bar and got to meet Chuck the coffee-guy.
  

I don't think this list is quite right, but you get the idea... :)

Oops - I forgot one:

• That album-launch show (for Drunkard's Prayer) where Karen dressed up like a chicken for April fools. 20th Century Theater.

If I count correctly, the current estimated total is: 24

Updated 9/2/2007 with Joseph-Beth (8/30/2007) and Moonlight Gardens (8/31/2007).
Updated 12/19/2007 with Christmas Show 12/15/2007.
Updated 1/27/2009 with 2008.

What more could you ask for?

Tasty food and free Over the Rhine. What could be better? Maybe a little less rain, but other than that?

Sunday I met some work friends and my sister Sarah at the Taste of Cincinnati for some food sampling and concert listening. It was pretty crowded, but we had a good time. I think that's the farthest I've been from the stage in quite a while, but there was a big video screen, so we could still see everything. The torrential downpours were a bit of a problem towards the end, but in general a good time was had by all.