{"id":1140,"date":"2010-12-05T16:51:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T23:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/remarc.com\/craig\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2010-12-05T16:51:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T23:51:56","slug":"david-bromberg-and-the-angel-band-state-theater-ithaca-1232010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"David Bromberg and The Angel Band (State Theater, Ithaca, 12\/3\/2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Packed the lumbar pillow and braved the State Theater for an excellent show by David Bromberg and company Friday.  He and the band haven&#8217;t lost much since I first saw him 35 years ago as the opening act for Hot Tuna at SUNY Binghamton when I was still in high school.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the day, says Bromberg (if you can believe him), he played a now-defunct theater here in Ithaca that had a strip club nearby that employed a dancer who danced to one of his songs, and she came over and danced for the concert.  Here&#8217;s the story.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon (from 20 years ago):  &#8216;It won&#8217;t cost you no money, boy.  You got to pay with your heart.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ounbHa0YZlQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ounbHa0YZlQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the band looks like now:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SVa6rT5Et6Y?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SVa6rT5Et6Y?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Hustling across the street into the theater I noticed a car with some bizarre bead work animals on the hood.  Little did I know that it was the art of Bromberg&#8217;s wife, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsaslowgallery.com\/artists\/josephson\/josephson_index.html\">Nancy Josephson<\/a>, who leads The Angel Band (they opened the show and sang back-up during the main act).  Check out her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/43651412@N00\/1338724719\/in\/photostream\/\">cars\/bead\/other media art<\/a> here (and click older to see more).<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s also been working to raise money (and hope) for Haiti since long before the earthquake:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bhUwYddqIk8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bhUwYddqIk8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Packed the lumbar pillow and braved the State Theater for an excellent show by David Bromberg and company Friday. He and the band haven&#8217;t lost much since I first saw him 35 years ago as the opening act for Hot Tuna at SUNY Binghamton when I was still in high school. Back in the day, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=1140\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;David Bromberg and The Angel Band (State Theater, Ithaca, 12\/3\/2010)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}