Tuesday, 24 October 2017

Chili Con Carne as prepared by the Real Group

Ingredients
  1. Some fresh & ripe tomatoes
  2. Oil
  3. Onions (Strong & tasty)
  4. The finest meat (cow or pig, it doesn’t matter)
  5. Beans
  6. Jalapeno peppers
  7. Mexican Spices (flavor of mexican sunshine)
  8. Crisp Tortillas
  9. 1 - 7 beers
  10. Mexican Spices

Method

  1. Take some fresh and ripe tomatoes, put them in a bowl with oil
  2. Add the onions, strong and tasty, on the stove, let it boil.
  3. Choose the finest meat, cow or pig it doesn’t matter, beans and jalapeno peppers necessary is to this.
  4. Don’t forget the mexican spices
  5. Eat your chili slowly to prevent a stomach ache
  6. Put crisp tortillas on your plate, they sound so nicely when they break
  7. To quench mouth full of fire, one, or two, or three, or four, or seven beers will be enough.
  8. Don’t forget the mexican spices
  9. Wa p t kong ko chi ki ba ra t ko kong chi ki, Wa p t ba da da t ba ba chi ki ba tsao
  10. DON’T FORGET THE MEXICAN SPICES!!!

Tuesday, 3 October 2017

Shameless plug: 
This Sunday Oct. 8, I am presenting an evening of music made famous by the great Edith Piaf.  
Doors are 6:30pm and music starts at 7pm. The link to tickets and more info is here:  
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3099996

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. 

Hope to see some of you there
New songs! 

Instead of youtube videos, I thought I'd put up the link to the pro recordings from the publisher's website.  They're cleaner recordings and better for hearing the parts.

The Way You Look Tonight arranged by Kirby Shaw:



As Time Goes By arranged by Jay Althouse:


Over The Rainbow arranged by Andy Beck:
https://www.alfred.com/over-the-rainbow/p/00-35626/


Chili Con Carne written and arranged by Anders Edenroth of the Real Group:
https://www.giamusic.com/store/search?elSearchTerm=WRG1013&elCatalog=wm&elComposer=null

I make a lot of chili this time of year, and this is one of the best recipes I know of!  Fun fact: This is one of the first arrangements my jazz choir tackled in High School!