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Apparently being in one band isn’t enough for some of Midlife Crisis.

Both Nick and Calvin are long-time musicians who have taken their love of jazz and formed another band, “Southern Comfort”.   The band plays regularly at Blue Nightclub and so far it hasn’t interfered with their real band so we’re excited for them. They’ve even let Brian and his famous harmonica join them onstage a couple of times.

Speaking of Brian, he is also a member of BluesBox Seven, an all-harmonica band, and is in the lead for most over-exposed member of the band.

Brian Jeffe

Congratulations to our very own Brian Jeffe (Reuben Kincaid), who was elected mayor of Sewickley.

He assures us it won’t affect his band manager duties and that we’ll be headlining the inaugural parade.

He’ll take office in January so start saving up those parking tickets now.

Nick Nichols, who has played trombone for years, has stepped out from behind the keyboards and broken out his preferred instrument onstage.

He was discouraged from playing it before as the band feared horn instruments would dilute their cool factor.  That all changed with the addition of Calvin Stemley, who has played the saxophone with House of Soul for quite awhile.  Once he and Nick started jamming, the band quickly jumped on board and welcomed the new sound.

While we wouldn’t go so far as calling it a horn section, we’re pretty excited about the new direction this old band can take.  What’s next – backup singers?