The Skertich Sisters

So if you know my dad you know his all-time favorite band in the entire universe is The Avett Brothers. Scott and Seth Avett, just soothing your soul with the sounds of sweet harmonies  and the vibration of guitar and banjo strings. Believe me, he could go on forever, and if you haven't had the pleasure take a listen here (the third dude in that video is Bob, not a blood brother but close enough).

Scott is the oldest Avett, and my inspiration as well. In fact, last week Dad came down into the basement to find this:

Dude nearly started weeping when he saw me... notice the resemblance of the above to the below...

So then I started thinking, you know, a solo career would be great and all but what could be more satisfying than becoming a famous finger picking duo with my gal Mae.

So we got a gee-tar and a ukelele and hit the road for our first of hopefully many gigs.

I mean, if these guys can do it...

So can we. Might even let Dad backstage (I said "might" dad... might).

And if that fails, well, looks like Mae is headed for a gig in Vegas on the late night stage taming rattlers (yes, that thing is real).

Finley's Music Festival

So there's this thing on the Mac computer called Garage Band and basically you can make your own songs by just picking instruments to play and then layering the tracks, etc.

Well, Dad was showing it to me the other night; he would play instrumental parts and I would pick the ones I wanted.

You should give this a listen - this is the track that I created and we call it Finley's Festival. We threw a couple photos over it so there was something to look at while you listened (but only a couple, seriously, just two).

The first photo is of me holding a chicken, which I thought went appropriately over the banjo music. Then the second photo is of me smiling really big and beautiful, which I thought went well over the big and beautiful piano solo.

Anyway, enjoy, this will probably not be the last time DJ Finish (that's my DJ name when I rock the 45s on Wednesday nights in Bucktown) mixes up some sweet melodies and gives you a listen.