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A Snowy Heartland

January 18, 2025

January at Zephr Point, our nickname for the locale of the lakeside BRC workshop, is a wintry mix. The lake behind our domicile freezes, and the surrounding trees are often coated with snowy ice.

After about 10 inches of a recent frosty snowfall, a beautiful sunset draped the horizon over the dam at the end of our lake. The BRC home is the house closest to the water. The twinkle of lights in the leafless trees along the adjacent dam is from the nearby neighborhood where we lived years ago.

As always on weekends, the G&F band performs year round at the nearby brewpub collecting donations for the local Children’s Hospital. Not infrequently, kids will join us on stage for a sing-a-long and photos.

Since its inception in 1995, the G&F band has surpassed $32K in donations to our University pediatric medical center. We are heartfully grateful to the generous patrons and gracious management of the brewpub, our Sunday afternoon home since 2009.

From the BRC: Wintry single digit temperatures visit us here early next week. Keep warm.

G&F Band

Remembering

November 9, 2024

The G&F band and alumni performed earlier this Fall at a Celebration of Life picnic dedicated to a dear friend who had passed a few months previously. The local folks and out of town guests sang along with our familiar tunes on a pleasant autumn afternoon.

The next day, some of the visiting musicians joined the band at the local brewpub for a jam session.

It was a lovely weekend of remembrance for a very special lady.

From the BRC: Peace

BRC Activities, G&F Band

Milestone & Thanks & Update

April 28, 2024

Shortly after the recent mid-day solar eclipse, the G&F musicians surpassed the $32K milestone of gig tips collected since our band`s inception in 1995 for donation to the local Childrens Hospital. A subsequent evening celestial event seen below also signaled this monetary accomplishment with a spectacular moonrise over the lake behind the BRC workshop.

Since 2009, the Broadway Brewery has graciously hosted our Sunday afternoon jams where its patrons have donated over three-fourths of the aforesaid tip money into a guitar case at the foot of the bandstand. We salute the generosity of our listeners and the brewpub`s community spirit to support our local pediatric medical center.

Other news includes the migration of our Wednesday afternoon jam sessions in a small village near the Lake of the Ozarks. We recently relocated this music gathering from the basement of a local church to the township`s community center which has welcomed us.  Many of the musicians pictured below in our newly-situated picking venue frequently trek north to join our Sunday afternoon performances at the brewpub.

From the BRC: We are appreciative of these many good folks and thank them all for their generous civic-mindedness.

G&F Band

Joy & Thanks

December 23, 2023

To celebrate the Holidays, the G & F musicians recently congregated at a nearby retirement home to entertain the clients with a seasonal song fest. One of the retirees was a guitarist/singer who had attended Thursday night jam sessions with several of us for decades in the basement of a local hardware store, and his specialty was old cowboy songs. He joined our performance and regaled the audience and his fellow musicians with bygone country western classics that we remembered well – thanks to him. The staff and clients joyfully sang along on the familiar Holiday tunes.

With December soon closing the calendar year, the Gainor & Friends musicians are reminded of the generosity of the Broadway Brewery management in inviting us 14 years go this month to perform weekly gigs for the benefit of the nearby University of Missouri Children`s Hospital. We salute and thank the Brewery for its community spirit in supporting our local pediatric medical center.

The brewpub provides the band with a meal during our mid afternoon break-time at each Sunday performance. Since our band`s inception in 1995, we have donated $31K to our nearby Children`s Hospital, and over three-fourths of those moneys have come from the generosity of the brewpub patrons. Thank you all.

From the BRC: Wishing Peace everywhere in our New Year.

Cell Perches & HVO, G&F Band

Welcome Fiddler

December 9, 2023
Violinist and harmony singer Sara joined our band earlier this year. Although her background included classical training and membership in the string section of the civic orchestra, she was drawn to the Bluegrass music genre and our fun-filled Thursday evening jam sessions where she is seen below kneeling front right.
Sara devotedly studied and promptly mastered classic fiddle tunes while seamlessly merging into our ensemble with her songbird voice. As pictured below (far right), she has become a regular and valued performer on Sunday afternoons at our brewpub gigs benefiting the Children`s Hospital.
In recognition of her upbeat and skillful commitment to the G&F band and its musical endeavors, Sara was recently presented with a hand-crafted BRC workshop smartphone holder during one of our weekly evening jam sessions.
Our newest fiddler is seen below holding her gifted cell perch (arrow), and we are all grateful that she has brought her music and song to us and our listeners. Away from the band, she is a busy equestrian and falconry aficianando.
Stage center at the feet of her animal-loving master, Sara’s dog named “Peanut” rests quietly while the band performs a Sunday afternoon gig at the brewpub. Despite upbeat hoedown tunes, throaty group vocals, and rounds of solo musicianship, the canine dozed and was unmoved by the onstage hubbub.
From the BRC: Happy Holidays to all our readers and Best Wishes in 2024.