Q Square for Valentine's Day

This coming week will be the Chinese New Year holiday, but the Ramblers (or most of us) will not be taking it easy the entire time. On Valentine’s Day, that’s February 14 of course, we’ll be performing at Q Square. We’ll offer two sets, starting the first one at 5:30 P.M. and finishing the second by 7:30. 

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If you haven’t been to the new bus station just north of the Taipei Train Station, here is your opportunity. Here’s a link to Google Maps. The street view shows the building as it looks today, while the map view still shows a construction site. We’ll be raising a ruckus on the first floor, in the main entrance foyer near the intersection of Chengde Road and Civil Boulevard (Shimin Dadao). We won’t be hard to spot. We’ll be the dapper gentlemen with red roses pinned to our jackets (as per request of the management).

Our last show was at Millagarden in the Dadaocheng area near Dihua Street, and we had a great afternoon in the courtyard. There were lots of people enjoying the warm weather as they shopped for treats for Chinese New Year, and many of our Taipei Swing friends came out to kick up their heels. Steve Kim, photographer par excellence, was dancing away, but he also had time to get some great shots. Here’s one that I’d like to share. I hope Steve doesn’t mind.

In case you want to know the context for Dave lying on ground, understand that he’s played himself to exhaustion. The application of our self-titled CD is the medicine that heals his weary bones. What doesn’t show is that Dave has collapsed right on his straw hat.

There are also a couple of short videos on YouTube. I'm not sure who recorded or posted them to YouTube, but much thanks for sharing.

If we don't see you before Chinese New Year, have an excellent holiday, and may your Year of the Snake be prosperous and auspicious.

Welcoming the Year of the Snake -- Videos Added

The Ramblers will be performing in our favorite courtyard, behind the Millagarden Coffee Shop in the Dadaocheng Distric, on Saturday, February 2, 2013. We invite all of our friends and fans (one in the same) to join us for an afternoon of music and good times.

** A note on the address of the show. For whatever reason, the address of Millagarden was copied incorrectly in the image above. It's not on Minle Street; its on Minyue Street. That's one reason we've provided a map to help you find your way. Click on the photograph below to activate Google Maps. Scale out and you'll see where Millagarden is located. By the way, Min-yue Street (民樂街) means 'folk music' street, so it looks like we've found the right neighborhood for our style of show.


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The narrow surrounding streets will be crowded with shoppers preparing for Lunar New Year, but we'll be swinging with a jazzy, juggy jive in a broad courtyard amongst historic buildings. This is a free show, and family friendly, so come on along. We'll be raising a ruckus.

來迪化街買新年貨，也可以體驗音樂火
泥灘地浪人要演出！
這個星期六2月2日下午3點
我們在米拉貝爾咖啡館的漂亮舒服戶外空間會帶動一個新的新年的氣氛！來看演出是免費 (但請支持米拉貝爾咖啡館買一杯咖啡或茶吧)

地點：
米拉貝爾台北迪化店
電話：02-2553-3612
地址：台北市民樂街62號1樓
(捷運大橋頭站 一號出口)

We've played here several times before, so if you'd like to see what a show in this welcoming venue will be like, here's a video to tempt you to join the joyous pre-New Year throngs on Dihua Street.



One member of the audience at yesterday's show posted these two short clips of the hijinks in the courtyard.