Who can tell me what the saddest Key of all is?   If you attended the last Tribune Loft Concert you know.

Back a while ago I mentioned on the blog that Custom Concept Photography would be sponsoring another one of my Living room Concerts.

Pat Dinizio played our home, Tribune Loft, Saturday January 30th, 2010 to a packed house with 87 music fans in attendance.  When Pat first showed up to our place, I met him down stairs in the studio.  I offered my hand to shake and he just looked at me and said, “Come here!”  and with a warm smile he gave me a great big hug and said “Great to meet you”.  That set the tone for the rest of the night and his concert.  That night Pat invited us into his life as he shared his solo and Smithereens songs along with heart felt stories from his  family, music career and times on the road that reaches back decades.

With his smooth voice and acoustic guitar we were entertained for three hours with classic songs like “Top of the Pops”, “Girl Like You” and a great and memorable interpretation of Black Sabbath’s, “Paranoid”.  As a special treat MarNee Hammond did a duet with Pat on “Blue Period”  and sixteen year old Brandon accompanied Pat on a deep Blues version of “Blues Before and After”.  Nice job Brandon.

Thank you Pat, for coming all the way to Ingersoll, from Scotch Plains New Jersey, to play in our living room for my friends and I helping us raise $725.00 for Big Brothers and Sisters of Ingersoll and Tillsonburg.  It was a great night again.  I would also like to personally thank the volunteers from BBBS that helped out with the door and bar.  I couldn’t do it without your help.  Another special thanks to Trish for letting me do these crazy things in our living room. And a very special thanks to Bob Breen for arriving at 12:pm and not leaving until 1:30 am, setting up the sound and keeping us all in the music.

If you were on facebook that night we did have a link so you could listen to the whole show live.  Our partners at CHRW also broad casted it live from their website. What a neat world we live in!  If anyone did listen to it live at home, I would love to hear how it went and sounded.

Also, in some time to come we should have videos on the blog and YouTube to share with you, compliments of our co-op student, Kristy and her boyfriend that recorded most of the show.  Keep tuned.

Now for the photos that Trish captured.