Comments on: Eric Peters in Concert at the Westminster Cafe

By: Mark Traphagen

Mark Traphagen — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:51:30 +0000

Anyone who can keep bread int the mouths of artists like Peters, Peterson, Casella, Osenga, et al by hosting concerts, please do so! We need them to keep writing those amazing songs.

Christiana…welcome home! I’ll be watching your blog for news of your adventures!

By: Travis Prinzi

Travis Prinzi — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:07:53 +0000

EP is great. I’ve only heard him live once, and that was as an opening act for Andrew Peterson. I had a chance to chat with him for a while afterwards, and we made plans to try to get him up to Rochester for a show, but things didn’t work out. Hopefully we can try again and get him up here. Till then, I’ll have to live vicariously through concert reviews, so thanks for posting about the show.

By: christiana

christiana — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:47:39 +0000

Mark, I’m so glad you were able to meet and hear Eric. He is one of my favorite artists and people. I wish I could have been there (although Istanbul was great!).

By: Curt

Curt — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:45:50 +0000

Thanks for a sneak peak from your Eric Peters show. Peters is definitely one of the most underated indie artists on the landscape. It’s been too long since I’ve seen an EP show, so I appreciate your review.

Now … I wonder if Taco Bell is open at 5:00 a.m. … (that’s probably too late, even for Taco Bell) I think I’ve got … chimichanga on the brain …

By: Gaines

Gaines — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:01:54 +0000

He is also a fanatic aficionado of The Simpsons.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:55:57 +0000

I first got to meet EP backstage at one of Derek Webb’s shows … he’s such an interesting guy. It’s funny: we don’t talk about music, but we talk about psychology and creativity and the writings of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi …

By: Mark Traphagen

Mark Traphagen — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:08:45 +0000

Thanks, Gaines, for providing the name of the instrument. I was tempted to say “chimichanga” but I was pretty sure that was my stomach talking. Prof. Mike Kelly, whom I mentioned in the review, lived in Ecuador at one time and owns one also (a charango, not a chimichanga).

By: Gaines

Gaines — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:45:37 +0000

Yay! Eric is one of my favorite musicians to see live, and definitely one of the coolest guys around. Glad to hear that he’s got some new fans up at Westminster.

By the way, that “Brazilian ukelele” is called a charango, a traditional South American folk instrument often made out of armadillo shell!