Baptism of fire

The Orpy String Band: John Edwards, Rik Lawson,
and Matt Hearing.

The trio I play in had its first couple of gigs in December. We have been playing together on the local session/folk club circuit since January of last year but these were our first proper gigs and went well.

We describe our music as 'Old Time and Americana'. We mainly do upbeat Old Time songs and instrumentals in stringband style with Bluegrass-type chops, and some more modern Country Blues numbers.

I'm not promoting the band here as this blog is just about my personal, and at times, naive, musical journey, but I wanted to mention it as an indicator of progress.