I’m excited to return to my favorite venue, Arlington’s little gem of a bar - the Galaxy Hut - this Sunday to play with both of the evening’s bands.

Rotary Club will be on first (around 9pm), and is the solo project of my long-lost Boston band Betwixt’s guitarist, Tom Devaney.  We’ll be playing his new songs acoustic, cello and guitar.  It’s very Roxy Music/Pere Ubu-type stuff - actually, Pere Ubu bassist Tony Maimone recorded and played bass on the first Rotary Club album a few years ago.

The Strugglers will play second.  This is the critically-acclaimed (Pitchfork!! whee) americana-ish work of Randy Bickford, who recently re-located from North Carolina to DC.  His stuff is excellent.  I’ll join him, cellist phenom Emily Wright, and my violinist pal Kirsten Snyder, in a special strings-heavy set of songs from his new, unreleased album.

See you there, yeaux.