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Frankie95 Video Round Up-Introduction
I’ve been obsessive compulsively keeping track of videos posted from the Frankie Manning 95th Birthday Festival. This is mostly because I didn’t get to see a lot of it despite being at all the evening events from before start until after finish. I was looking at the Silver Shadows’ routine and realized that there were 11 videos of it online. I wanted to determine which one got the best view. Then I got even more curious and did the same for the other performance videos, the competitions, etc. until I just compiled a ton of information.
I figured that it would be a shame not to share this stuff, so now everything is compiled into these easy to reference blog posts by day/night.
Click on the links below and enjoy!
Frankie95 Video Blog Introduction
I’ve been obsessively compulsively keeping track of videos posted from the Frankie Manning 95th Birthday Festival http://www.frankie95.com/index.php. This is mostly because I didn’t get to see a lot of it despite being at all the evening events from before start until after finish.
I was looking at the Silver Shadows’ routine and realized that there were 11 videos of it online. I wanted to determine which one got the best view, and then I looked at the other performance videos, the competitions, etc. until I just compiled a ton of information.
I figured that it would be a shame not to share this stuff, so now everything is compiled into these easy to reference blog posts by day/night.
The official Frankie 95 DVD is being produced as we speak. You can order a copy by going to the Frankie95 website. http://www.frankie95.com/order_dvd.php
Until then , enjoy!
Thursday http://jsalmonte.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/frankie95-video-round-up-thursday/
Friday day http://jsalmonte.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/frankie95-video-roundup-friday-day/
Friday night http://jsalmonte.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/frankie-95-video-roundup-friday-night/
Saturday http://jsalmonte.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/frankie95-video-roundup-saturday/
Sunday http://jsalmonte.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/frankie95-video-roundup-sunday/
Monday http://jsalmonte.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/frankie95-video-roundup-monday/
Frankie95 Video Round Up: Thursday
An annotated compilation of videos of the Thursday activities at the Frankie Manning 95th Birthday Festival.
Frankie95 Video Roundup: Friday, Day
An annotated compilation of videos of the Friday daytime activities at the Frankie Manning 95th Birthday Festival.
Frankie 95 Video Roundup: Friday night
An annotated compilation of videos of the Friday night activities at the Frankie Manning 95th Birthday Festival.
Frankie95 Video Roundup: Saturday
An annotated compilation of videos of the Saturday activities at the Frankie Manning 95th Birthday Festival.
Frankie95 Video Roundup: Sunday
An annotated compilation of videos of the Sunday activities at the Frankie Manning 95th Birthday Festival.
Frankie95 Video Roundup: Monday
An annotated compilation of videos of the Monday activities at the Frankie Manning 95th Birthday Festival.
The Boilermaker Jazz Band at The Jam Cellar 7/7/09 and an Appreciation
The Boilermaker Jazz Band came back to The Jam Cellar last night, this time fielding a smaller group of Paul Cosentino on clarinet and saxophone, Mark Kotision on piano, and Rich Strong on drums. Betsy Kipperman also made a brief appearance with the band singing “Me, Myself, and I” and “I Can’t Give You Anything, but Love.” One of these days I’m going to do a larger feature about the Boilermakers, but today I just want to talk about drummer, Rich Strong.
Video Addendum
I deleted two video’s that were part of my-favorite-routines-of-the-past year-list. So because I have some time before checking out The Boilermaker Jazz Band at The Jam Cellar tonight, I present those videos here to keep Paul busy until my massive update later this week.