Posted on March 26, 2010
Rockn’ 4 Rosie is an amazing Boston event that I have worked with for the last 4 years. It is a boat cruise around Boston Harbor that raises money to support an extremely important non-profit. There is live music featured every year… this year Joe K. returns to the stage to rock the boat baby! I supply the flyers.
Inspired by the life and legacy of Rose T. Coppinger, ROCKN 4 ROSIE is a benefit event to help raise support for the Point After Club (PAC). Founded by Rose 25 years ago, PAC is a clubhouse that provides support services to adults with mental health disabilities. PAC is a program of MHRP Inc., a non-profit 501-C-3 agency.
All proceeds and gifts made through ROCKN 4 ROSIE will go to PAC’s “Home of Our Own” project. After 25 years of service to the greater Lawrence, MA community, the PAC has outgrown its current location and is looking to purchase or renovate a building that they can proudly call their own.
Come to Rockn’ 4 Rosie … it is my favorite annual event and supports one of the best causes in Massachusetts. Booze … Music… Food… Art … and the most amazing view of Boston imaginable … it doesn’t get better than that. Also, be sure to plan time to attend the after party!
Buy your tickets here: http://www.rockn4rosie.com/Home.aspx
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Posted on February 20, 2010
I’m a barkeep.
The lizard isn’t a huge room but people often can really pack in making it quite cozy – especially if there’s anyone that wants to dance. The floor can be difficult to wiggle through for some of the less daring… I would expect a nightmare for any socially awkward people out there.
We serve good beer. Unheard of good beer for a music venue. It’s also good music, often acoustic, but pretty much anything. Bartending, though not too much more than pouring drinks, being interested in what people are saying or singing and making change, does have it’s complexities. One detail: to serve good beer there is a critical ingredient. Not the hops.. Not the spices.
A cool glass.
The workspace can be cramped but the bar has pint glasses all around. Most locations I can have a glass in a step or two. But over all there’s just not a ton of space for glasses. There’s easily 150 pint glasses.. probably way more. ( I think I’ll need to count now).. Well if all the 105 patrons are drinking.. plus the bands.. well there’s a lot of pints going around. Just as important as keeping enough glasses clean (of course while strategically running the washer during the bands loudest sections) is to keep the glasses cool. Who wants a beer with a warm glass?
Especially a good beer.
But when it gets busy there’s much more to know than just where the exact type of glasses are, but in what rotation of cooling they are in. Quickly I learned to put cups back in groups, often times working in silent unison handing glasses off to another bartender to speed the process up. All 25-30 glasses come out steaming. At first very warm to touch. A beer comes out of the tap nice and chilly but can heat right up in a freshly washed glass. When someone orders a drink we must avoid the last load of cups that went through. On a busy night probably the last two loads. Combined with 100 people with drinks in their hands…
That’s a lot of warm glasses to avoid.
Some evenings you can find me keeping the bar, serving fine craft brew drenched in the red lights of the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, MA. It’s not a big place, a capacity of only 105, but there are few places better to see live music in the area.
Lesson of the day: Sometimes all you have to do is keep the glasses cool and the rest will fall in line.
Hope everyone is well,
-jk
