Headed to Virginia…

We’re on the road to Virginia… typically we try and avoid I-95, but from where we stayed last night in New Jersey, it’s the most direct route to Charlottesville, so here we are. So far it hasn’t been too bad, though we’re just coming into rush hour now. We’ll see how it goes. We’ve got a two night stand at The Box, a cool little room right off the downtown mall in C’Ville. It’s a place that consistently gets a late-night rush, so we’re planning to start our set fairly late tonight, around 11pm. First we’re going to head over to another venue nearby, “The Southern,” where two of our friends, Andy Falco and Chris Pandolfi from the bluegrass band The Infamous Stringdusters, are playing a show with their side project, the “Founding Fathers.” We’ll meet up with them and their manager, Michael, who is also a friend of ours, to hang for a bit before going back to The Box for our gig. It will be really nice to be off the road for a couple of days, relaxing in C’Ville with friends and playing two nights without having to set up all of our stuff twice (they’ll let us leave everything in place tonight after we finish). And of course the other bonus is that we get to see our old buddy, former SR bassist, Jason. I saw him last fall when I came out to the Stringdusters’ festival (“The Festy”), but the other guys haven’t seen him in a long time and Mario has never met him, so it should be a lot of fun. More later from C’Ville, probably after the show tonight.