Cousin Joshua and cousin Ian backstage at this past week’s Mortified show (Tuesday and Wednesday night). Ian is a jazz drummer, and Joshua is a jazz trumpeter. Joshua works/lives at West Point, and starts every day playing reveille for the West Point campus. Sometimes he plays Taps as well. He’s a busy busy man. The Army keeps you wicked busy. Then he drove down for the gig. Joshua and Ian have so many people in common because of their jazz background. Here are the cousins looking at jazz clips on Youtube.
My sister Siobhan, a producer of the “Mortified” shows, who also performed excerpts from her junior-year-in-high-school diary this past week, along with organizing the O’Malley Family Band. Not to mention starting a music-teaching business, as well as being a new mom to the glorious little Beatrice. Siobhan is a busy lady and I am so proud of her!
My tambourine. I have bruises up and down my right leg. I feel like a real rock star now.
Rehearsal beforehand. Cousin Matthew and cousin Joshua.
After running through “These Words” before the show, I glanced behind me and saw cousin Joshua, with one of the video clips from the performance up on the screen behind him. One of the participants in the show that night was a guy who shared a home video from his childhood, where he, a 12-year-old boy, displayed his impressive collection of cuckoo clocks. They clearly were testing the video before the show, and I could not stop laughing seeing that cuckoo clock (which is actually the Halloween costume of the guy who told the story – there’s a little boy in there!) with cousin Joshua hanging out with his horn in front of it. Dying. Life is comedic.
The O’Malley Family Band in action.
I think we’re ready to take our act on the road.
