A few weeks ago I saw one of the musicians who has performed at YES Gallery in the past at an art opening event for at the Hoboken Historical Museum for Jeremy Roche, one of the Artists who has work at YES Gallery. His name is Jack, but he performs under the name of Visionary Module, and he had not only done some wonderful solo performances at events, but he also performed with different variations of his always stellar band at different times and put together a truly wonderful afternoon and evening of four different bands and performers last fall during the Hoboken Artists Studio Tour. He'd been too busy since then to perform, but when I saw him at the Hoboken Historical Museum he said that he felt like he would have some time in the next few months and that he had some new music he wanted to try out. I've been so busy myself with so many things, and sometimes things that come up unexpectedly or that I have very little planning time for, that the last two months I haven't had a chance to schedule an event. When I first opened the gallery I planned to have regular events, and ever since then I've had something every month, but with everything else going on I wasn't sure when I'd have a chance to schedule anything again until Jack told me he had some new music he wanted to try out and I responded that if he had time I'd make time to schedule an event.
When I next heard from Jack he was following up from our conversation, and he said he was available to do something in July and that he'd been practicing his new music. That was just the kind of message that I needed to get me looking at my calendar, and I sent a message back that I thought Sunday, July 14 in the late afternoon and early evening could work if that worked for him. He responded that it did and so the date was set.
July 14 is my Mother's birthday, and it is the anniversary of the day when I said my definitive YES to the person whose space is where the gallery is, to say that yes, I would do this thing called a gallery and take a plunge and a chance that I didn't know what would happen with. It feels so good and so right to be celebrating on that day, and to have Jack playing his new music in the space is a gift. I'll have more photographs and videos after Sunday, but for now, here's a wonderful photograph by Jeremy Roche that I took a screen shot of when it was part of his Artist Talk at the Hoboken Historical Museum, from the afternoon that Jack put together last fall during the Hoboken Artists Studio Tour, and I'm also including the invitation that has a photograph of my own of some gorgeous flowers, roses from a neighbor's front area that they let me cut at the height of their blooming. YES Gallery is always so full of beautiful people sharing their beautiful gifts, and these photographs show a taste of all the goodness and blessings that are shared.
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