Toni mentioned that we attended a house concert last Friday in the East Village. The performers were Fats Kaplin and his wife, Kristi Rose. I have been dealing with them for ten years or so as Village Records stocked all of their CDs as they were issued, including their new Christmas CD coming in a week or so. But this was the first time we had ever met in person. Fats is an extremely talented multi-instrumentalist and Kristi is equally talented as a vocalist. You may not know them by name but if you click on those links you might find that you have an album or two that they were on. They once lived in New York but about twelve years ago they moved to Nashville where Fats has steady work as a session musician and tour gigs. He plays pedal steel guitar, accordion, violin, guitar, and loads of other instruments.
They were here for the whole week looking up old friends and checking out old haunts. On Wednesday we arranged to have lunch together at a deli across from my apartment. It turned out that we had much more in common than just our taste and interest in music. I discovered that Kristi, like me, was born to a Canadian mother and she has been looking into getting her Canadian citizenship restored just as I have. That is quite an interesting coincidence.
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