Y/Our Sparkle Heart
Posted by hungrymonkmusic on March 11, 2008
It’s been another busy weekend of music making here in Monk land. Our friends Ian and Sarah Morris from Greenwood, SC came to town with their band Y/our Sparkle Heart. Ian and Sarah contacted us a couple of years ago and invited us up to Greenwood to play at their music school, Homemade Genius, a non-profit education center. We have been to Greenwood several times since then and finally got the chance to invite them here. Your Sparkle Heart played a great show here at Hungry Monk Music on Friday night, March 7, and then played at The Daily Dose for lunch on March 8, and then shared the bill with The Hungry Monks at the Gage Hall Coffee House on Saturday night. The Gage Hall gig is one we have done several times in the past few years and its a great room to play. Over the years we have played so many different events there: contra dances, coffee houses, a madrigal dinner, Charleston Tibetan Society benefits, etc. Your Sparkle Heart opened the concert and played mostly original songs with Sarah singing and Ian playing his Moon Lute, a Chinese instrument sort of like a mandolin. The crowd was very enthusiastic. The Hungry Monks performed in their original duo format, which is to say it was Hazel and John. We actually had requests from the audience and the other band. I’m sure we’ll be rubbing elbows with Ian and Sarah real soon.
