Pat's Weekly Diary: Week of 4/26 - 4/27
We're back. And you thought we were gone for good. You can't get rid of the Topcats. We're like bad grass. We're like old roaches. You thought you might never hear "Brown-eyed Girl" again. But there we were on Saturday night… down in da Parish playing the OLPS Tomato Fest. A beautiful night playing to a packed school ground. Lot's of friends in Chalmette we haven't seen in a while. As we started playing it kinda felt like… after some time off like we had. And not knowing what to do with myself on a Friday or Saturday night, there we were… The Topcats… all these 40 something years later playing at a school fair on beautiful spring night and all of a sudden all was right in the world. It all felt so…normal.
"And like a blessing come from Heaven
For something like a second
I was healed
And my heart was at ease" (L. Cohen)
And then on Sunday afternoon the we actually broke new ground (for the Topcats anyway) playing T Rivers in Madisonville for the first time. T Rivers has been there for many years. And we've heard of it but never played there before. "To explore strange new worlds". T Rivers is right where the Tchefuncte River meets the lake. So you can drive to it or access by boat. It was packed. What a great crowd of people there. (My spell check didn't even bother with Tchefuncte) We will return to T Rivers on the weekend of Memorial Day.
So check out the calendar page. We have two… count 'em… 2 Cinco de Mayo celebrations coming next week. El Paso in Metairie on Saturday night then El Paso in Kenner on Monday night. That's right! We're back! We'll be rockin' all the way to our graves. It's just that we had a little bit of an extended period of time off but… we're back. We've got plenty of "Brown-eyed Girls" yet in us.