Open Mike Night at Eesti Nelipühi Kirik...

So, Ingrid and Margit in our cell group invited us to come over to Open Mike Night at their Estonian church, over on Upplandsgatan, sing some songs, do some comedy, meet their friends...In the cellar of the old St. Petrus Kyrkan, a nice little low-ceilinged sort of "grotto", could be a cool jazz venue...They open up once a month...got great non-alcoholic mixed cocktails (go with the Chalapa: orange juice, grenadine, kiwi and cayenne pepper...you'll sing some wicked RnB with that one!...) Chance to meet some of the many Estonians living in Stockholm: Raymond, Kristofer, Kristin, Elin...Learned the word for smörgås (sandwich)...Vöijleib...Now I can go to Tallinn and order lunch...
Sang some Francis Cabrel (French in a room full of Estonians in Sweden: nearly pulled a muscle in my brain), Springsteen, U2, and a favorite blues number by Los Lobos...In the skit below I popped my D-string (on the guitar, you weirdo!) and so the Cabrel song afterwards was the space-jazz version with a Cm9/6 chord where the C shoulda been...
We wrote spontaneous 8-line song-ettes for a game...ours was in 3 languages and as many keys...I had ten pennies and my cat ate my new hat, which is not half bad in estonio-svenska-engelska!...
Bustin' a Baltic groove in Franco-Estonian, y'all, Ingrid barely visible in the middle of Tallinn's Really Hot Chipotle Peppers...

So FUN !!...Open Mike Night!...We'll be back!...Cool to bring people and cultures together, listen to the Estonian, which reminds me somehow of Finnish with the music turned on, laughter is international...Thanks Ingrid, Margit, Elin, Kristin and Suune...Teretulemast!...