Today was the last day to submit an application for staged performance for the 2010 Wescott Street Cultural Fair. The Fair takes place on September 19, 2010 between noon-6:30 pm. I like attending. I played the fair back in 2005 with Midnight Mike. We were playing in Christiane Pagé's band. We received many positive comments. That's when I first started thinking about a Hondo Mesa / Midnight Mike band or duo. Mike and I later played at the Taste of Syracuse (picture below). We enlisted a couple fine musicians from the cool noir jazz band, 3rd & Main, to help us out. Again, we received many positive comments on our performance. I was sure that Hondo Mesa and Midnight Mike needed to start writing songs, recording and playing out. We talked to a management team and they took us in (I'll let them announce that one, when they are ready). Our manager put us in the studio to record a three-song demo CD. The video below shows us performing one of those originals, "Cowgirl Museum and BBQ." Thanks for reading, watching and listening. Long live independent music!
Here is how our manager describes us:
Hondo Mesa and Midnight Mike bring together a guitar and harmonica and follow that with raspy vocals for a taste of Americana, while feeling at home on the ranch or in the blues clubs of the Mississippi Delta. The duo began to flirt with this a long term project after their debut at the 2008 Taste of Syracuse. Both musicians come from strong roots in the Central New York music scene.
Midnight Mike Petroff is an energetic showman having been a part of the blues group Dirty Pool. Hondo Mesa has supported several bands in Central New York through his independent record label and now returns to the stage as an unsigned artist fronting the Americana influenced blues group. A lifelong musician in his own right, Hondo Mesa rekindled the fire to burn up the stage yet again.
