Here's a seasonal cocktail -- the official Some'tet drink for November!

Here is a cocktail we over at Some’tet Central have invented. We call it “Lose Your Keys”, named after the 5th track on our first EP, Steps. You can order one up at the Home Sweet Home bar, also know as the Snapdragon Cafe Bar. 

Ingredients:

About a quarter of a pear

1½ an oz. of bourbon

½ oz of a ginger liqueur

½ an oz of lime juice

Ginger beer

Muddle the pear in a cocktail shaker with the bourbon, ginger liqueur and lime juice. Shake well. Pour into a whiskey tumbler with ice, top off with ginger beer. Enjoy!

Thursday, November 3rd, 8pm, Vermillion Art Gallery and Bar, Seattle

Next week Some'tet will be taking a ferry cross the ol' Puget Sound into Seattle, something we don't do that as often as we should! We'll be playing with the great Seth Alexander Trio and patchtax (from Boston). Come on down for a drink and give us all a listen. I believe Some'tet plays around 9pm but it'll be a good night from the get go, music from patchtax's unconventional twist on classical chamber music, to headliners SAT's jazz and free jazz to some of our bossa novas and post-jazz reveries.

Some dull band trivia for duller dinner conversation next time you sit down and eat with us

Here's some trivia about Some'tet: 

At one point the band was named the Callipygous Trio, but nobody could pronounce it correctly.

Another band name that went nowhere -- the Zazzer Zuzz, a Dr Seuss reference.

We officially announced -- if posting babble on Facebook is an official announcement -- the name Some'tet on September 28th, 2015. Exactly one year later we sent out our first Ep to be pressed.

Also in that first year of existence, Some'tet played 49 gigs.

Here is perhaps the oddest bit of useless information -- none of the six musicians in Some'tet have a tattoo. Not a single one. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Zot.

All six of us live on Vashon Island in the Puget Sound, but only two are from the Northwest, Dianne and Christine. Barry and Michael are from Southern California, Patrick and Dodd are from Minnesota … we think. 

Callipygous

This weekend Some’tet is playing at the annual Vashon Strawberry Festival. We’ve played there the last two years but under different monikers, with slightly different personnel …  oh, those halcyon days of being The Callipygous Trio --

callipygian. adj. "of, pertaining to, or having beautiful buttocks," 1800, Latinized from Greek kallipygos, name of a statue of Aphrodite at Syracuse, from kalli-, combining form of kallos "beauty" + pyge "rump, buttocks."

Yes! Still the best band name I’ve ever come up with, but sadly nobody could pronounce callipygous, not even my band members. Alas …

Come on by, check us out on the Ober Park Stage, Sunday afternoon, July 17th at 2:30, playing all the hits -- well, hits? Alas …

sum sum sum some'tet summertime

Some'tet started off the summer gig season with a whiskey soda in hand, a game of croquet, and a warm evening at the Lodges of Vashon this past Sunday May 29th, kicking off the Lodges Summer Music series. Thanks to the great crowd, thanks to everyone at the Lodges! We played one long set for somewhere in the vicinity of two and a half hours, and introduced a couple of new songs. I thought one of the highlights was Christine's smokey version of "Come Wander With Me", a song from TV's Twilight Zone. Written by Jeff Alexander (a Seattle native) and Anthony Wilson and sung -- in this the last episode recorded -- by Bonnie Beecher.  

Sidenote: Bob Dylan's very first recordings were recorded at Bonnie Beecher's Minneapolis' home back in 1961, before his Greenwich Village days. Another odd bit of trivia -- Liza Minnelli auditioned for the same Bonnie Beecher role, but was turned down.

Closing Twilight Zone narration for Come Wander With Me -- "In retrospect, it may be said of Mr. Floyd Burney that he achieved that final dream of the performer: eternal top-name billing, not in the fleeting billboards of the entertainment world, but forever recorded among the folk songs of the Twilight Zone" 

is it babble or is it blather ...

will it be babble or will it be blather? don't know. there will be no blubbering, no prattle here. except when its necessary, then we'll call it blither … blurting and blither. jabber on people, jabber on ...