Zara Bode’s Little Big Band

Zara Bode is Stefan Amidon's wife and mother of Desmond and Vera. She is a fine singer and has a band which has a repertoire of "big band" songs from the early-mid-20th century, but only 7 people, and thus is only a little "big band." But those 7 people are all fantastic musicians and can really put out the sound. The seven are: Guitar: Alton Lathrop; Bass: Ty Gibbons; Percussion: Stefan Amidon; vocals: Zara Bode; Clarinet: Anna Patton; Saxaphone: Ron Kelly; Trumpet: Don Anderson. We went to the BMC Sat. eve for a concert, and it was great! They had gone through the vast big band repertoire and pulled out sort of spooky songs to make a Hallowe'en-themed concert, and it was fun. They even came out for the first song in ghost costumes! We heard a lot of songs we had never heard before.

The ZBLBB dressed as ghosts.

Alton, guitar, Ty, Bass; Stefan, percussion.

Zara, vocals; Anna, clarinet; Ron, sax; Don, trumpet.

The ZBLBB. ***************** Today is Hallowe'en. Not sure if we'll have trick or treaters or not; we have some candy, just in case. For us, a quiet day at home. Tomorrow I have a physical therapy appointment - it may be my last in this series. We are reading Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon for our Swarthmore Class - partly reading, partly listening to it's being read onAudible by the author. That is very satisfying. It has been very dry and the spring is on the low side. So we are being careful about water usage and hoping we will not have to turin off the pump. I don't think we are up for hauling water!