Kenny's Newsletter

Welcome to all the new people to this list....

3 More Weeks! It's coming up fast!! The Bull Run Concert. I can feel the music now. Sept 16th, Thursday at 7pm. The Kenny Selcer Band!

Thanks to all who have bought tickets to my concert. I appreciate it. Tickets anyone else? The room is filling up. 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 and Lori Diamond on backing vocals. 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. Or get them on The Bull Run site.

Bull Run ticket

This could be yours! bull run and ticket

To go here to hear me and band!

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I've had some great gigs this summer. August is fading. So it goes. Here's what's happening this week - 2 gigs!

• Friday, August 27th: Kenny Selcer - solo acoustic River Rock Grill - 6-9:30pm outside on the deck! 163 Main Street Maynard, MA 01754 • (978) 897-5500. This venue is where the Sitting Bull Pub used to be, - good food and drink. New Place for me.

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

Some other gigs:

• Sunday, September, 5th - 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!

• 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

• Sunday, September 19th - 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!

• 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. Church of the Nazarene, 2 Short St., Melrose, MA. Click here for event page and details. 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.

• Monday, October 11th: Kenny Selcer - solo acoustic Flatbread Company - 6:30-8:30pm, 5 Market Square, Amesbury, MA • 978-834-9800 - 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

"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

Read this and watch the video of the Governor's debate(Aug. 16th). Jill Stein for Governor: Globe editorial - Cahill, Stein earn their places and video of debate.

This Sunday, if you're in the Boston area, be sure to watch Jill on "On the Record" at 10am on WCVB Channel 5. If you're not in Boston - check back to the website and the video will be posted as soon as it's available.

Some random quotes. I've been asked if I believe in all these quotes that I put here each newsletter. My answer is always nahhhh! I take what I need and leave the rest. And, I am not the quotes either.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), Everybody's Autobiography, 1937

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
Dorothy Sarnoff

To love another person is to see the face of God.
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.

You can turn your back on a person, but, never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Journals, 1824

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.
James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)

Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.
Bob Dylan (1941 - ), "If you see her, say hello"

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Theresa

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. John Lennon (1940 - 1980), in Strawberry Fields Forever

That's it!

Stan Zelesney, Chris Nauman, Kenny Selcer, Arlington, MA - Robbins Park - 8/14/10

Ken Selcer, Dave Scandurra

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