Spent a wonderful evening at the Sahara Lounge watching fantastic ukulele acts, including the fearless leader of the Austin Ukulele Society, Bob Guz, pictured above.

Went downtown to the Lucky Lounge to play with Lynette and Lefty again. Great fun, as per usual.

Went to the Cap City Comedy Club tonight to watch my old friend Johnny Hardwick participate in Piranha, a twisted version of TV's reality show "Shark Tank." Instead of entrepreneurs pitching business ideas to tycoons, the up-and-coming comics do a five or ten minute routine, and afterward the panel of pros (including Johnny) bid on specific jokes. 

This is such a great idea. It's part stand-up comedy, part improv (during the joke bidding), and part game show to see which comic gets the most money for his or her jokes. I've got to figure out a way to bring something like this to the music scene.

Since mid-January, the addition of an open mic night at The Water Tank (pictured above) in my neck of Austin has made Mondays are a lot more fun! That's Lynette Wolfe of Lynette & Lefty fame helping out with "Hot Pepper Tamale."

Afterward, she told me that David (Lefty) is chomping at the bit to play on that one. He got his chance about two hours later when we played as a trio at the other new Monday open mic in my area at Anderson Mill Pub (sorry, no photos of that one). In fact, they gave us an eight-song set, which included:

All Hat and No Cattle
Don't Dallas My Austin
Girl with the Upright Bass (my only one-chord song)
Guilty Pleasure
Hot Pepper Tamale
I Ain't Got Your Money, Honey
Last Chance Tattoo
Waitin' at the Station

Went to Twin Creeks last night. Apparently, it's now Twin Creeks Icehouse instead of Twin Creeks Hall.

Kaye and I got there before the OMN hosts showed up, but Austin's best barmaid, Melissa, already had the stage set-up and ready to go, so I plugged in and started playing. Did about a 30-minute set.

Afterward, I went to Rovers for the end of its open mic. All in all, a fun was to close the day of Easter.

Had a great time with Paul Teneyuque (as usual) performing at a benefit for his old friend and my new friend MT Helton. The Sam's Town Point crowd really enjoyed our half-hour show.

We played Paul's songs: "Lady Lovely," "I'll Always Be True," "Leave Me Alone," and "Barrio Poet," plus my songs: "Hot Pepper Tamale" and "Don't Dallas My Austin."

Paul and I played our last-Friday-of-the-month show at The Watercrest in Bryan, as per usual. We had a great crowd again.

After four gigs in two days, I was too tired to advertise tonight's open mic at B.B. Rovers; however, we had a great turnout anyway, including a few newcomers.

It was a night of ukes and youths. Three different uke acts: Mardi and Jack, Anna and Leta, and a young man named Sho whom we had seen perform at this month's Austin Ukulele Society meeting. I also performed "Jackson" with Anna, too.

Sho was one of three youngsters taking the stage tonight. Carlos played his classical guitar with his grandson Charles playing trumpet. Also, Mackenzie O'Brien, a 17-year-old from Chicago sang and played guitar while her folks captured it all on cell phone video.

For me, it was a great way to wrap up a great weekend.

Very happy for such high billing. They even spelled my name right (with the The).

The show was very silly, but the music was great. Lynette and Lefty backed me up for "Don't Dallas My Austin," "Girl with the Upright Bass," and "Last Chance Tattoo." All three songs went great.

Next, I had some solo time to perform other songs, including: "Grandma's Star," "Big Weather Tonight," "That Kind of Song," and "Hot Pepper Tamale." Lynette came back on stage to help with some dancing and horns for HPT. Great fun.

The Austin Ukulele Society Ensemble performed at the Faulk Central Library this afternoon as part of its Central Concerts series. Personally, I think we were long overdue to get this booking at the library.