I'm Adam Ennis.

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Yeah.

What's going on, Adam?

Nothing much, man. Just getting off my great weekend.

Nice.

Playing my gigs. Happy Monday. Yeah, you know, we had a bunch of, we had a big festival here in St. Louis got canceled, kind of the last minute. Lou Fest, which has been going on for like nine years. And it's kind of like this big outdoor music festival in Forest Park, which is our beautiful jewel of a park here in St. Louis. And, you know, the guy, like, totally messed up this year,

the guy who runs it, and the vendors pulled out, and they canceled the festival on Wednesday before the Saturday shows. And this is like, like Robert Plant is the headliner. Yeah. But they also have a jazz stage. This is not a street fair. It's not a neighborhood street fair. No, no, no. It's like a big deal festival.

This year was the first year, of course, that they have a jazz stage where, like, all the St. Louis jazz musicians were going to play. Totally unrelated to it being canceled. Let's just be clear. We think. Of course, it was, you know, like all these jazz musicians like, we're going to play for thousands of people. and then, you know.

Right, right, right.

Well, that's a bummer.

It was a bummer.

Yeah, but actually, so everybody kind of rallied around.

We had some gigs on Sunday. people and then you know right right right well that's a bummer it was a bummer yeah but actually so

everybody kind of rallied around we had some gigs on sunday it was good nice nice well it's

you know it is kind of festival season or really the end of a lot of the summer festivals and

over the weekend i had a strange experience because i played up at the chicago jazz festival

which is a wonderful

event. It's totally free. It's got to be one of the bigger free jazz festivals. But we played

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