New Shoppe at Guthries Folk Club

In my ongoing program to revive my Second Life, I logged in yesterday and browsed the "What's Hot Now" thumbnails on the login page. It's a cool feature, obviously programmed to update as regions populate past a threshold, which on that morning looked to be about 17 avatars. On the 2nd screen (of 8) I saw Guthries Folk Club, at that time hosting 25 avatars. That looked good to me, so I popped into the location and ended up spending an hour and a half listening to three acoustic guitar player-singers entertaining a full house. It was fun, and sure enough it did remind me how Second Life can be entertaining and an opportunity to socialize with new acquaintances. The three entertainers were Brendan Shoreland, Dusty Smythe, and Twostep Spiritweaver. All three were wonderful, though

New World Notes offers a heavily commented post seeking people's favorite folk, country, and bluegrass performers in Second Life. I pulled some names from that list for future music field trips inworld. You can too.

Guthries has a richly populated online calendar, at http://tinyurl.com/guthriessl, and I encourage everyone to drop by and linger. You can dance, sit, stand, or wander around the shops outside while listening to the stream, which, when live music is not available, serves up Folk Alley (I'm listening to fellow Nashvillian Matraca Berg on that stream as I type this. It's my kind of music, and Guthries Folk Club hosts it for all of us.

Oh, I almost forgot. I was so impressed with the venue that, in keeping with my SL revival theme, I leased a little storefront, which I gussied up with links to my blog, my music, and a few little for-sale furniture pieces and objets d'art that I have created over the years. Here's a SLurl, and here's a pic:

and another, of the exterior. I'm the top floor shoppe (be sure and pronounce the "e" :-) ) nearest the venue.