Pat's Weekly Diary: Week of 3/28 - 3/30
Another great weekend of work for the Topcats. We started on Friday night playing the Crawfish Boil at Sidelines Bar & Grill in Metairie. Turned out to be a fantastic night. We really like playing Sidelines as it's not so much of a 'dancing place' as it is a 'sit and listening' place. We end up playing songs that we wouldn't normally play. Songs that we haven't done in years. Testing the old memory banks. Gotta love that. Saturday we were right back at the Ridgeway for the Jefferson Parish St. Patrick Parade Gala. It was déjà vu all over again. We were just there last weekend… set up in the same place, playing the same hours, playing the same songs, wearing the same clothes. None of us can recall that we've ever played this event in the past. A splendid time. A lot of stopping and starting for announcements and awards… but a very nice night. Sunday was the Gretna Irish/Italian Post Parade Party. It wasn't very easy getting to downtown Gretna because of the parade and the traffic. But what a great evening it was. The weather was beautiful. We played in the parking lot of the post office there and it was a packed. A lot of dancing. Plenty of musician friends there to sing and play with us. Too many to name. A wonderful way to end our very busy March. We will have a couple of weeks off now. As always we want to say how much we've appreciated the support you guys have shown to the Topcats over these many years. I know that I can speak for Buzzy, David & Robert… (and Frank) we have truly been blessed to be able to make a living playing music for you guys over these 42 years. Especially being able to stay so close to home. Sincerely… thank you all so very much. We hope to see you soon.