Greg Klyma - Funny stuff. Marcoux Corner - Smooth as satin.

The "Live from the Center" program last week was Marcoux Corner with opener Greg Klyma. If you are ever anywhere near this performer, sit in for a session. He's a multi-faceted, multi-talented performer who loves his audience and loves to entertain. His account of a highway stop in Oklahoma alone is worth the trip. Think of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" and you get the idea. This is Greg's second trip to the Simmons Center. Last year he opened for red dirt blues-man and band, Jimmy LaFave. Greg was such a hit then that the lobby sold out of his CDs. Think about that. The feature of the evening was Marcoux Corner. Here's a capella music from almost barber-shop to street-corner-but-polished Doo Wop. Again, if you are in the neighborhood, take in this show. They are blended voices at the speed of excellence. All the old favorites sung in an old favorite way but with a unique tone that lingers in the ear as you are driving home, reading the paper the next day, writing about them a week later. This is good stuff, boys and girls. In other totally unrelated news that deserves mention just because it's connected to this date: We must consider the startling and disconcerting fact that Fearless Fosdick will be 65 this year and Social Security will kick in. And Al Capp would be 98 this year had he not found the cure for aging today in 1979. Consequently, he will always be 70. I miss the cartoon strip. Al, however was an unabashed rake and I really don't miss him much.

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