San Francisco is My Home

02
Oct

A mighty fine show

Author: kris, Category: Events, Music, News

The Hobohemians put on a mighty fine show on Sunday night. As a band they were excellent, but for my money the best part of the evening was when the rest of the band took a whiskey field trip to the bar and guitarist Ivan Cooper performed a solo number.

As the band left the stage and the audience relaxed into chatter, Ivan started singing an a capella Irish ballad that silenced the room. It was like something out of a movie. Everyone got rapidly quiet, and then everyone got rapidly goosebumped, and then everyone got rapidly teary-eyed. Something about sitting in an Irish pub, listening to an Irish ballad (about heartbreak and death, as all the best ballads are) really brings my sentimental Irish blood front and center. Luckily, the band closed with a comical country song, also sung by Ivan. Thank god, or I would have gone home all maudlin-feeling.

The Hobohemians are playing again soon at The Brainwash, the laundromat/cafe/open mic that every performer in this town is required to perform at. It’s like the tax that every artist must pay. I sort of love it.