location: writers house
It rains too much nowadays. I was a little nervous about a lot of things. Rain didn't help. Because of this, the Wanderer Sessions had to really wander and find some cover this time around.
Murray Hall was still busy late at night. There were still classes going in some parts. I could see them, you know, the fuzzy figures of brown-coated professors and sweat-shirted students staring back at me through the jumbled glass doors each time, each room I peaked in. We set up The Delfields in the Writers House hallway. It's quite possibly the cleanest-looking place in the building and it was certainly the most secluded. I thought it was the safest choice.
I was nervous about meeting them, you see. The Delfields are the most seasoned, most experienced bunch we've had the pleasure to film so far. Especially Joe Fekete, who I saw as a great musician, part of this invisible set of, I consider, New Brunswick "veterans" that have already been here and there and still stay for the music, the arts, and the town. So I was nervous. As nervous as I got when I first met Avi at a CoLab meeting or Elena at Arthouse.
"I've always wanted to play in just a hallway like this," Joe said. I took comfort from this. Relief, definitely. And they played some happy, soothing music that relaxed my spirit just enough for me to start filming.
It rains too much nowadays don't you think? Raining permits, raining parking tickets, raining closed venues, raining pizzerias in their place, raining agitated students. But at least for this session's sake, they just played music, we filmed, we watched, we listened and all was great in this rainy New Brunswick night.