'Tis the season

My life is not terribly exciting. I'm a homebody and make no apologies for preferring to stay home over any sort of nightlife or social engagements.
But, here we are at the end of the year. The time when invitations tend to roll in pretty steadily. Not only that, but Hubs and I have our wedding anniversary thrown in with all the hullaballooh.
This year, we saw that the band Postmodern Jukebox was going to be performing at a venue just a couple hours away. We decided to treat ourselves to a little overnight adventure in Worcester, as an anniversary celebration.
I've never been to Worcester...it never offered anything I needed to drive 2 hours to get to!
We left as soon as I got home, so we were pretty ready for food once we finally arrived at 4 pm. There was a Mexican restaurant right across the street, and I was ready for a stiff drink!

After dinner we had a few minutes to change and for me to grab a drink for the road. We brought a bottle of wine with us, so I took advantage of the travel cups in the room.

It wasn't a bad night for a walk.

I was surprised by how beautiful the theater was!

We weren't sure what the photography policy was, but a woman came over the loudspeaker to inform us that 'photography is prohibited'...sad.
But then LaVance Colley got on stage to inform us that they would love for us to take pictures, but asked that we use the tag #pmjtour when posting to social media. Then promptly posed for us.

Robyn Adele Anderson opened the show.

We got the amazing Vonzell Solomon

Tapping from Alex McDonald (on the opposite side of the stage and hard to get a good picture of, unfortunately)

Of course, it's not PMJ without Von Smith

Dani Armstrong was amazing

I tend to be mesmerized by the musicians, having spent my school years, from 5th grade straight through the performance on my high school graduation day.
Ben Golder-Novick on sax and clarinet

Chip Tomas on drums

Reggie Watkins on trombone

The crazy bass, Nimrod Speaks (from my seat he was hidden behind the piano, so this was the only good picture I got of him)

And, the piano, Hasan Sharik

The next morning we left pretty early. We were eager to get home to our old girl, Moxie.
Good morning and good-bye, Worcester.

Good morning and hello again, Cape Cod.