Harambe Drum Party

I could go to Disney World and just hang out in Harambe Village all day long. It's alive with the constant beating of drums as threads of other live music are intertwined throughout the streets as you make your way around. These guys were throwing a drum party out on the main street. They know how to draw a crowd! If there are similar — but more authentic — villages in Africa like Harambe, I need to book a trip. And I have a good feeling there are. 

This photograph was captured with a Sony a6300.

Accordion Man

These guys were the house band at Charlotte's Oktoberfest celebration at the Waldhorn restaurant last year. As always, the music, food and beer was great! 

I pulled this one out of my archives because I was setting up a new TV antenna this weekend (buh-bye Time Warner!) and came across one of the secondary digital channels for a local PBS station that was playing the Lawrence Welk Show! That show instantly brought me back to the early 1980s, watching the Lawrence Welk Show with my grandparents at their house. It's neat when unexpected sights, sounds or smells bring back such vivid and happy memories :-)

This photograph was captured with a Sony a6300. 

Joseph at Tiroler Hut

Tiroler Hut is a fantastic Austrian restaurant on Bayswater in Kensington, London. The legendary host, Joseph, is the star of the show and would be a one-man band if it wasn't for his yodeling lamb puppets.

Bonus post: now with more videos!

Yes, you read that right. The goat puppet yodels Bavarian hits to the entertainment of a very rowdy (drunk) crowd at London's famed Tiroler Hut. No goat puppets were harmed during the making of this film.

This one is a bit of a train wreck. Proving that you, too, can play cowbell like Joseph, he's taught a couple of audience members how to accompany him.

Joseph at London's famed Tiroler hut and his cowbell show