The Swingin' Armani Brothers did Dinner and a Show that Pulled Out All the Stops

Last Thursday, the 4th of February was the beginning of a new Era as The Coffee Gallery Backstage hosted the beginning of The Swingin' Armani Brothers' 2010 Pasta Tour. They will be coming back every month in 2010 to do wonderful Italian/European inspired music complete with Italian Dinner. We dressed up The Backstage. No longer is it a tropical Coffee Storehouse, it has been transformed into an Italian Bistro, complete with a seductive piano serenading the diners.

To top it off, the show began with Roksana treating us to a few Italian arias, and Evan J. Marshall the celebrated mandolin virtuoso showed us more than a few tricks he knew. Then The Swingin' Armani Brothers did a great set, and they were joined by Duanio Thorini for one song, who I think is a relative of some sort.

Here are some tastes of what happened, but you really had to be there!



And here are some pictures of how we gussied up the place!

Okay, finally an update - Riders of The Purple Sage did a great show

The Riders of The Purple Sage came by again and wowed us with their great performance on February 1st and 2nd. It is hard to describe how they manage to charm us every time they stop by between roundups, rodeos and all those other western cowboy-type stuff they do here there and everywhere. Great musicianship, great songs, great harmonies, and did I mention great musicianship? Oh yeah, that needs to be underlined. Here are some tastes of the show on the 2nd:



And to find out more about The Riders of the Purple Sage, just click HERE