Thursday, November 17, 2016

Now What?

Barry and Carly came back from their early Saturday morning bike ride.  They got off their bikes and put them away. Carly went to clean the dogs water bowls and get them some fresh dog food. Barry went upstairs to make breakfast waffles sounded real good to him. Now a few things had changed for the week of November thirteenth thru November nineteenth. First off the album signing location had changed. It was going to be on Monday November fourteenth at Barnes and Noble book store. Rough Trade records had a small fire l two weeks ago. Barnes and Noble book store is located at 106 Court St. in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood. Barry was still doing The Late Show with Stephen Cobert on Tuesday and Later With Seth Meyers on Wednesday. The Today Show was being postponed until Friday December second. Rachel Ray's show got canceled because Rachel came down  with a sever case of pneumonia. Barry sent her a bouquet of flowers. One the card he put "Take care. See you when I see you. Barry" Amy Grant was doing The Today Show on Friday November eighteenth and that was fine with Barry. He was doing six surprise concerts to promote his latest album Here At The Mayflower II (Many more stories inside.) Palace of the Auburn Hills Detroit MI Thursday November 17th, PPG Paints Arena Pittsburgh PA Saturday November nineteenth, Barclay Center Brooklyn NY Sunday November twentieth, Prudential Center Newark NJ Tuesday November twenty second, TD Bank Center Boston MA Wednesday November twenty third and Wells Fargo Center Philadelphia PA Saturday November twenty sixth. Tickets for all six shows were front main floor thirty dollars. back main floor twenty five dollars, lower bleacher seats twenty middle bleacher seats fifteen dollars and nose bleed ten dollars. The money was going to The One Voice Foundation.  Then the Barclay Center concert money was going to The High School for Enterprise, Business and Technology, Progress High School for Professional Careers and The High School for Legal Studies. All three high schools use to be Eastern District High School until the spring of nineteen ninety seven. Eastern District High School was the high school Barry graduated from in nineteen sixty one. Barry will be bringing his band of musical suspects. Russ McKinnon drums, David Rosenblatt percussions vocals, Marc Levine bass vocals, Mike Lent guitar vocals, Ron Pedley keyboards,  Rick Turner trumbone, Kevin Simons trumpet, Dana Robbins saxophone/vocals, Debra Byrd vocals, Billy Kidd keyboard vocals, Shelly Greco vocals, Kion Harris vocals and Joey Melotti keyboards, musical director and vocals.  The Grant Street chorus was going on the six city road trip with Barry and company. The proceeds from the Barclay Center concert was going to the Grant Street campus high schools for musical instruments. They were getting a Yamaha U1 upright piano and a Yamaha Avant Grand N3 piano. The Grant Street campus chorus was going with Barry on his eight city unscheduled surprise mini concert tour. The Sunday November twentieth Barclays Center concert proceeds was going to those three high schools for new musical instruments.

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