These are a few of the friends that Alice meets up with to enjoy First Fridays and other night life around town. They are a sweet bunch of folks.
While we were there we heard the legendary John Mooney play blues (slide) guitar for free at the Indigo Room! He's a pretty amazing musician. (There's a photo of him playing with Bonnie Rait among other things). Apparently he has family in Fort Myers, so he comes to see them and drops in at some of the local places to play. Sorry that the photo is blurry. I was using our table as a tripod and it kept getting bumped, but you get the idea.
After that we wandered down to have dinner at the French Connection Cafe. The food was excellent and very reasonably priced. Even though we had a pretty big storm earlier in the evening, the weather was perfect for eating outside.
Check out Alice's Steak Salad. Mmmm!
Later we stopped in at this Arts for ACT Gallery and Boutique set up to raise funds for (Abuse Counseling and Treatment) in the Fort Myers area. See the beautiful blue scarf hanging over the partition? That's where I found MY beautiful GREEN hand-dyed silk scarf by Sara Long that I promptly purchased to bring home. It was VERY reasonably priced too. I loved all the quilted art and textiles here.
Alice has a friend, Kat Epple that was playing music at another gallery - Space 39 (also free to listen) so we headed over there to hear her music and meet more of Alice's friends. We learned that Kat's music has won 8 Emmys for film scores and has been nominated for Grammys! Pretty awesome, huh? Unfortunately, I don't know the names of the other 2 musicians, but they all played beautifully! The guy on the right is playing a theramin. You can go here if you want to hear what one sounds like. It has something to do with radio waves...
Well we're headed out to Naples today, so that's all I have time for. We had a really fun time at the Art Walk, thanks to our host and tour guide, Alice.
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