Found find…

found this in the hat during the second half of “found” themed night…pretty appropriate…

Found:

Awesome stories.  Last night’s event went above and beyond.  Thanks so much to all of our tellers, as well as all the listeners who had Balliceaux’s backroom packed!

Check out “i could go on and on” for some juicy tidbits and highlights, and keep an eye on our site: we’ll be posting audio soon!

Next event: “Roadtripping.”

Interested in telling a story?  Check out our Guidelines and feel free to email with any questions!

Tomorrow!

We are greatly looking forward to our event tomorrow — the first of 2012.  7pm.  At Balliceaux.  As usual.  The door is $3, all money going directly to Food Not Bombs.

The theme: FOUND

A letter not meant for you, but curiously fitting and inspirational.
An old lunch box you thought your parents gave to good will.
A priceless piece in the junk box of an antique store.

Stories about fate and how small objects/ people / places make for larger connections in this crazy mixed up world…and how you find them or they find you.

Come. Listen.  See you tomorrow.

“Show me the Honey Hole”

Last Monday’s event was, as to be expected, awesome. Thanks to Les, Anthony, Richard, Denise, and Chris Bopst we had stories that ranged in style, delivery, and of course, what the interpretation of the Honey Hole was.
Our Hat tellers were also quite impressive. Hopefully we will be able to get them back up behind the microphone soon…

AND, we got it all on tape! The stories are up on facebook and hopefully we’ll get them up here soon, too.

Our next event’s theme is “Found.” Email us with ideas for your stories.

See you soon!

Our Hallows Eve Event…

October 30th you will find us at Balliceaux hosting the Macabre Masquerade.

We will have three storytellers of our own to delight us with their frightful tales, as well as authors reading excerpts from the book. ”Richmond Macabre,”  released on October 1st.  Please check out their website for more details on the book.

Zombie String Trio (dead members of the Hot Seats) will round the evening out until…

The Party Liberation Front’s Speakeasy at 10:30!

Please remember, this is a masquerade.  A prize will be awarded at the end of the evening to the best mask.

Door is $3.  All money will be donated directly to Books on Wheels.

Looking forward to seeing y’all there…

SPECIAL EVENTS!

First things first.  We want to thank all of our participants in our most recent event on September 12th.  The event, The Musician’s Secret, was a huge success.  We loved it, the audience loved it, who couldn’t have loved it!  Give us some feedback and maybe we can get another one of these scheduled relatively soon!

We are so excited to announce that Secretly Y’all has been asked to host two upcoming events in the month of October.  They are going to be great, so don’t miss out!

On October 10th, at 7pm, we will host Mark Mobley presenting his monologue “Friend of the Groom.”  It’s only $5 and looks to be an exciting event for storylovers and listeners.  Please come join! More Details on Mark and his show here!

October 30th you will find us at Balliceaux as well hosting the Macabre Masquerade.  This will be an evening to meet some of the authors of the short stories from “Richmond Macabre,” a brand new book being released on October 1st.  Please check out their website for more details on the book.  We will have three storytellers of our own to delight us with their frightful tales, as well as authors reading excerpts from the book.  A surprise rock band and DJ Sean Lovelace will round the evening out.  Please remember, this is a masquerade!  A prize will be awarded at the end of the evening to the best mask.

Door is $3.  All money will be donated directly to Books on Wheels.

Looking forward to seeing y’all there.

Hear ye, Hear ye

Or is it here ye here ye? Either way listen up!  We have an event coming up this Monday, September 12th entitled, “The Musicians Secret”.  The premise is that local singer/songwriters are going to perform a song they wrote and then tell the story behind it.  We have an awesome setlist: Lydia Ooghe, Zac Hryciak, Browning Porter, Herschel Statigo, Cole Sullivan, Chris McNew, Chris Milk, and Andy Vaughn.

The entry fee is $3 and all proceeds will go to a non-profit from Charlottesville, Kid Pan Alley, that brings music into school systems and helps students write, record and perform original music.

And we have a lot of information about some great upcoming events involving Secretly Y’all….One involves Halloween, a book release, tales from the Richmond crypt, and bands….You gotta come out to find out about it….or just wait and we’ll post about it later…but seriously this event is going to be a lot of fun.  Hope to see everyone on Monday.

 

SY

Listen Up!

This is all new:

Tonight was da bomb

First of all, thank you to everyone for coming out tonight.  It was a great crowd and thank you for your support.  We hope to see familiar faces at the next event.

Thank you to all the storytellers.  It was too bad in that Greg, who usually records the storytellers, was absent tonight.  We don’t have a recording of tonight’s event…but here’s a quick recap:

Cynthia Lotze told a story about being “kidnapped” and taken away from her home to Nebraska all the while her parents were in the mountains of northern Pakistan.  A small middle of America town in a frenzy!!

Ann Dickson recounted a tale about her childhood babysitter, Joyce Mckinney, who later in life abducted her Mormon lover in England and chained to a bed for days.   She escaped the British authorities….Mckinney’s story is going to be told in a new documentary “Tabloid” .  Here’s a review: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/07/film/pure-american-crazy-errol-morriss-tabloid …Note to self…never hire Joyce Mckinney to babysit my kids.

Beth Brown told of her run in with a moonshine distillery out in the woods…and the man who ran the distillery…a man who over the course of his life never paid city taxes.   We also learned from this story that you should never allow menstruating women around moonshine distilleries or your batch will turn sour. Weird.

Virgilio Nebel, a Secretly veteran, took us back in time to Honduras, where he disobeyed his brothers’ orders and saved a fish from “drowning in air”.  Kids got heart.  And he wears t-shirts sometimes.

Les Schaffer was in New York one night and witnessed a fight on the street where a man lay dying in his arms bleeding from a glass wound to the head.  Les had to flee the cops because he feared he would be suspected as the perp and somehow the then 17 year old virgin ended up in a woman’s bed….who needs NCIS?  oh and Les reminded me to check out the Beastie Boys song “OFF THE GRID”!!

John Shuck of Evergreen Cemetery Restoration Project told of his search for a man’s relative, Pearl, in Evergreen Cemetery.  The search took 2 years and was stumbled upon by a volunteer.  The family finally got to see the resting place of Pearl.

Veronica Davis was Lilly in her story who painted a picture of  her life as an African American child who was taken by sickness and now buried in a cemetery next to Evergreen.  This cemetery holds many other children who’s graves have sunken over the years and been taken over by vegetation.

Thank you to all the hat stories….prosthetic legs at the bottom of rivers that are now a decoration piece in someone’s house, the trials and tribulations of making it too and exploring Evergreen Cemetery (those dern potholes and cops!), being sixteeen and going to a party where the attendees were all deaf and not being able to communicate, deciding to skip graduation to float the River James from Richmond to Jamestown with a couple cases of beer and Jack (dad would be so disappointed!).  All great stories and a poignant night.

All proceeds from the door went to the Evergreen Cemetery Restoration Project funded through the non-profit Virginia Roots http://varoots2002.web.officelive.com/default.aspx.

We will be in touch about taking a saturday to help do landscaping at the cemetery.

 

Thanks again,

SY (shhhhhh)

Off the Grid

We have a fantastic setlist for our upcoming event on July 11th.  Please come join in and listen (or put your name in The Hat and tell us your own story!) at 7pm at Balliceaux.

All door proceeds will be donated to Evergreen Cemetery, a historic African-American cemetery in the East End of Richmond dating from 1891.  More info about that on our facebook page.