Last Friday night we had a wonderful opportunity to be the very first band to play at the new Black Swamp Opry in Defiance, Ohio. It’s held in a beautiful old church that is now owned by the community. Great acoustics and nice people.

There were some beautiful stained glass windows in the church. Apparently the story goes that once the church was no longer needed as a church, some fellow from town wanted the old windows and planned to strip them and leave the building to be torn down. The town people said NO WAY… and went to getting petitions and such to save the old building. Now the community owns it and they use it as a meeting place and for concerts and music.

Inside the building, it’s simply beautiful. And a great place to hear music. And a great place to play music too!

We had a good show and the music sounded great. The people were super responsive and we are booked back to play there in June. Can’t wait. Hopefully too, there will be more people, as this was the very first evening concert and we know, with running our own Opry, that it takes a little time to get everything going and for word of mouth to spread the news.

You can visit their website… which of course, I manage! (haha)

www.blackswampopry.com

And here are a couple videos of the gang as we had a great show there!

I played this song for my friend Davey… he loved when we played this song and we dedicated it to him. He is missed…

Rob and Tim hanging out downstairs and watching the country karaoke music… fun stuff. I hope they get it all going on down there. Should be fun!