Photo courtesy: Lovitt Restaurant.Ī lot of the credit for this can go to Jan Peters, the man who was brought on to do the booking for Lovitt.
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Celtic fiddle professional Jocelyn Pettit will be playing at Lovitt January 26. Instead of overpowering your dining experience and making conversation impossible, the acts that Lovitt book will provide the perfect backdrop for your night, like they did for mine. The momentary silence in this case is a testament to their ability to blend with their environment. The musicians invited to play at Lovitt know their craft, know the venue and are adept at learning the crowd. However in this case, the silence was actually a sign of the exact opposite. Silence before applause can sometimes be a sign of a poor performance or general disconnect between the performer and the audience. I think if all dine-in entertainment was able to achieve that level of profundity, we would all be eating out a little more often.Īs the night went on and I extended my expenditures from liquids to some more substantial sustenance, I noticed that after each song finished, there was a delay before the applause. So engrossed was I by the musical tales of lost love and life that it was not until I raised my empty glass to my lips that I realized I had finished my first beer. In music, especially traditional folk music, the stories in the song are often told as much through the instrumental accompaniment as they are told through word. That message, the story brought to me by the lyrics, went deeper than what was said. The voice I heard that night pulled me from my dreams, an immediate reaction occurred within my heart long before I processed the spoken message. Whether you are staying for a whole meal or just grabbing a drink, it is easy to get lost in the music. Songs can conjure desire and quench the thirst within one chorus and leave you feeling warm, or shaken. Yet as a listener, when a melody truly hits, you feel it. For a musician, discovering the melody for a song can be even more difficult than writing the lyrics to go with it. Really, vocals are usually a tool to carry a melody and deliver a story that is accompanied by the voices of the instruments. We are taught to view pieces of music that lack singing as “instrumental,” yet as we listen we find that instruments have a voice all their own and that vocals blend as if they are an instrument themselves. I was briefly pulled away from my thoughts of fields of green by a voice as it entered the musical fray. I was lost in a new world where I almost felt like I truly was somewhere else. Thirty minutes of my life had rolled past me and I barely noticed. Photo courtesy: Lovitt Restaurant.Īs a few of the 30-ish patrons finished their meals and made their way back into the cold night I could, without turning, feel as they paused at the door letting one final wave of music cleanse them temporarily of whatever ailed them before they arrived. Flamenco guitarist Bryan Douglas will be playing at Lovitt December 22 and 23. The sheer artistic power of music has the ability to turn a simple dining experience into a journey across the planet, through time and through the mind.
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Gentle hills obscured the horizon as herds of sheep rambled around a series of archaic stone walls. Before me stretched flowing fields of wind-rustled reeds. That night, as I sipped at my beer, I closed my eyes and let the music envelope me. The music that flowed from their fingers that night certainly elicited a special response from within all who listened. Behind the performers an upright piano was pushed up against a faded concrete wall. With no elevated stage to distance the performers, the three musicians could have almost been considered part of Lovitt’s appealing décor. On this night I was greeted by a tickling of enticing traditional Celtic music from a talented trio called Half Six. The absence of an elevated stage helps break the barrier between performer and audience. Lovitt has shaken the confines of your standard cramped, noisy evenings usually associated with live acts and has found a beautiful balance between a warm, homey, feeling and the lively bustle you hope for from evening entertainment. During my first visit to Lovitt Restaurant, I was enchanted by the modern relaxed furnishings and unexpected size of the dining area.