Kenny's Newsletter

Welcome to all of the new people on this list.

The Bull Run Concert. Thanks to all who have bought tickets to my concert. I appreciate it. Tickets anyone else? My band will be at The Bull Run Concert Hall and Restaurant in Shirley, MA on Sept. 16th. I have a wonderful music evening planned for that date. And, tickets are still available for the evening. It will be a scintillating evening of music. No, really - I mean it. I will be playing with some great musicians that evening: me on guitar and vocals, John Donahoe on sax, fiddle and mandolin, Jack Howard on drums, Dave Scandurra on percussion, Andy Solberg on bass. We will be performing my songs from my years of writing and my usual different styles: from folk to rock to blues to reggae to, well, everything. And we'll even throw some R&B into the mix! Electric and acoustic. It'll be good time for all. Boy Scouts honor!

So please consider coming to the show and pre buy a ticket or 2. I promise it'll be a good time with good music. Good food there too! Just email me for info. $10.00 a ticket.

Bull Run ticket This could be yours!

ken's eye I've had some great gigs this summer. More to come. Here's what's happening this week - 3 gigs!

• Friday, July 30th: Kenny Selcer and The Knuckles at Thirty One Main Restaurant & Bar - 8-11pm 31 Main Street, Ayer, MA • 978-772-2233 - good food and drink. Kenny Selcer - vocals, guitar, Greg MacKinnon - bass, vocals, Mike Migliozzi - drums - "A Sizzling and Satisfying Blend of Roots, Blues, Country Blues, Folk Rock, Country and everything in between." A cool little place. We've played there a million times before.

• Saturday, July 31st Private party. Peabody, MA.

• Sunday, August 1st - Open mike at the Colonial Inn in Concord, MA on from 7-10pm. 48 Monument Square, Concord, MA. Come play and listen! I host and play too!

Some other gigs:
• Saturday, August 14th - The Robbins Farm Park Concert, Arlington, MA Chris Nauman with Kenny Selcer - Outside. 5pm.

• Sunday, August 15th - Open mike at the Colonial Inn in Concord, MA on from 7-10pm. 48 Monument Square, Concord, MA. Come play and listen! I host and play too!

• Thursday, August 19th: Kenny Selcer - solo acoustic Thirty One Main Restaurant & Bar - 8-11pm 31 Main Street, Ayer, MA • 978-772-2233 - good food and drink.

• Sunday, August 29th at The Harvest Cafe The Harvest Cafe - Brunch, 11am to 1pm. Good eats! Good music! Acoustic Kenny! Acoustic Muffins! 40 Washington Street, Hudson, MA - (978) 567-0948 - Come on out, say hello and eat up a storm.

• Saturday, September 18th at The Harvard Fall Festival from 11:30am - 12:45pm. The Kenny Selcer Band: Kenny - vocals and guitar, Greg MacKinnon - bass and vocals, Mike Migliozzi - drums, vocals, Joe Kessler - violin

• Friday, October 1st at The Groton Farmer's Market from 3:30-5pm. Outside and solo. 160 Chicopee Row, Groton, MA. At the William's Barn.

• Saturday, October 2nd: Kenny Selcer and friends - Benefit: Fourth annual Helping Our Neighbors Concert. Proceeds to Bread of Life, a local food pantry. 4 other music acts. Details. Location in Melrose. Click here for last year's event page. I'm performing with Jackie Damsky on violin and Rich Calogerro on guitar. 1/2 hour set.

• Thursday, October 7th: Kenny Selcer - solo acoustic Thirty One Main Restaurant & Bar - 8-11pm 31 Main Street, Ayer, MA • 978-772-2233 - good food and drink.

• Saturday, December 6th at 6pm Acoustic Showcase at Starbuck's - 60 Bedford Street in Lexington. MA

As always, my gigs are listed here.
Details of all my gigs are there.

That's all for now. Take care. Kenny

In Memorium: My Dad, Harvey Selcer 1922-2010 - gone this week....

"Rock on baby, rock on, nice & steady. Live your life never looking back and pick a place to go. Then keep on rockin' 'til you can't rock no more."" from Rock On Baby by Kenny

Some random quotes. Read 'em and weep.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927), "Three Men in a Boat", 1889

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence. When you do things without thinkin', then you ain't makin' the choice. The choice is makin' you.
Mark Steven Johnson, Ghostrider, 2007

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
David Reisman

Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle, but a tenderness in one's spirit.
McCallister Dodds

If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed.
Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 6, 08-22-04

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-15-04

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963) The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle (1947 - )

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
Emma Thompson, Vanity Fair

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

If we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.
Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Jacob Riis

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Ian Fleming (1908 - 1964)

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
J. R.R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)

For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone

Had enough?

This is my American Group, String Bean, a few years ago at The Cantab in Cambridge, MA. Andy Solberg on fiddle, me on guitar and vocals, Brad Hallen on acoustic bass, Rich Caloggero on guitar and Mike Migliozzi on percussion. Click on String Bean to hear music.

Ken's band String Bean

PS. Jill is running for Governor of Massachusetts. If you've had enough bailouts, layoffs, ripoffs and payoffs - this is the campaign for you!
Go here and check it out and donate, even $10!
Jill Stein

Kenny Selcer
781-863-2092
www.kenselcer.com