Wednesday we're back, Live in our Lair, for our 131st Wednesday (ish) but Friday we've been invited to perform at something really unique. Or at least, something that's only happened once before:

ilyAIMY's invited to perform Creative Alliance's Sidewalk Serenades which means you can book us to come play your sidewalk, porch, roof, stable, apothecary, etc (within a given geographic range). Visit https://creativealliance.org/events/2022/ilyaimy-sidewalk-serenades for details!

And then Saturday we get to bring drums, cello, guitars, and more drums to Dark Horse in Annapolis because sometimes it's just got to get raucous. It's technically International Rabbit Day, but we know little of that that means to you... so come out and tell us.

... and of course ilyAIMY's Live from the Lair is back on facebook.com/ilyAIMY, YouTube/ilyAIMY and twitch.tv/robilyaimy every Wednesday at 7pm ET. 

Full a full calendar, please visit www.ilyaimy.com/upcoming-and-incoming/

The pandemic is with us seemingly eternally, so it doesn't hurt to call a venue ahead of time to make sure there are no surprises! We try to keep everything up-to-date on ilyAIMY.com - but our social media is more up-to-the-second! Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are where we'll post last-minute changes - so make sure you follow, Like, subscribe... whatever it is you do on those crazy thangs!

Ellicott City can be a really magical place. I sort of feel like we've grown up together. Not "grew up". Not that... "we were kids together and now we're stumbling into the world together"... but became "grown up" together. It was once a place of whimsy and glitter, dragons and unicorns and the place where you could be Ren Festy while The Renaissance Fest wasn't in town. Tiny coffeehouses and stolen flowers and music late in Parking Lot D.

But now we all work for a Living. And the floods came twice and carried the clocktower away. And all the old coffeehouses are gone and new coffeehouses have taken their place, coffeehouses that also serve liquor. And they rebuilt the canal and they grabbed hold of the music and the second-hand stores are antique stores that sell playable guitars.

But music still gets played in Parking Lot D and though it's not centered around my old Volkswagon Bus, we still go to those tight little stairways to tune. And those little LEDs mean that there are beautiful, glittering lights hovering over our heads. And a new generation of kids are trading licks and forming bands and that is beautiful.

Heh. Except Ellicott City got Grown Up and now those motion-sensitive spotlights flick on. It helps if you're REALLY just tuning... but it does kinda kill the mood otherwise.

Anywho, we spent our week there. This week is Baltimore and Annapolis. And remembering last week. And getting ready for next. Growing up.

-rob
ilyAIMY
Baltimore, MD 
www.ilyaimy.com