Ride to Hartford w/Stepkids

This article was amended to include video.  You can check that over here.

Drummer/Vocalist Tim Walsh hand-customizes bandmates shoes.  Typically takes 4 hours to sequence the sequins

Champion musicians The Stepkids played a farewell show to Connecticut at RealArtWays in Hartford before stepping out of state for a tour with the record label Stones Throw.  They played before a crowd of eager participants in an evening of music and lights, occasional passing trains and a man who spent all night sharing flyers for this website, asking if people preferred trampolines to natural disasters.

RealArtWays is an actual real gallery in Hartford that contains installations of art in an old factory setting, reminiscent of Mass Moca, for example.  Its current installation includes some interesting hand-crafted features from the artist Sam Ekwurtzel, along with rooms on display with other amazing art (not featured).
That art is available for viewing whenever they're open.  See their site for details.

At the show were many interesting kids from Hartford, interspersed throughout the crowd of socialites in attendance that evening.

Eccentricity Index was at its peak here in Hartford, where many conversations went by faster than the train which passed the venue at around 8:45pm.

Opening performer "Aminal"

That train was full of passengers, all largely unaware of the meaning of the event or of the Stepkids; possibly unaware that the band that they saw as the train flew by was the same band on the cover of the papers in newsstands throughout the Hartford/New Haven region.  On Sunday, projectionist David Pond is going to visit the studio and assist editing the footage from the performance and we'll release it that evening.
Opening group Aminal (from Hartford) also performed.


We're going to produce something good enough to re-live, for the folks who came out to make it to the show, and experience for the first time for all the people who have never heard of RealArtWays or the Stepkids, or are aware of but have never actually heard or seen a live show with video projections.  Sound quality was good.