David Freeman Music

Here we go! My February... Thursday, February 5, 2026: Terre Haute, IN. We rode the bus overnight from Atlanta, and woke up in snowy Indiana. I took one of those NyQuil tablets (still trying to shut down my cold), so I slept great.  Terre Haute still had about a foot and a half of snow on the ground, and the high was in the mid 20s. We were at a small college concert hall (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology). Nice place. The local crew was slow (in every possible way), so the set up took a long time, and some of our lighting stuff had to be abandoned because of time constraints. Pizza Hut for lunch After setting up all my stuff and eating the pizza, there wasn't much to do, so I walked to the student rec center, and they were cool about letting me run on the treadmill for an hour, but once I got in, I discovered that they had an indoor track, so I did that instead. Eighth of a mile distance, in case you're wondering. dinner! more pizza The gig was ok. I guess I haven't be...

January! It was a very busy month of shows, and a photo dump of peanut butter sandwiches.  Thursday, January 8, 2026: Huntington, NY. Time for our trip to Long Island to play at The Paramount! Getting here is never fun--it was an early flight (8:30 AM), and then a van ride to get out to Huntington, but we had no problems and made it in time to immediately go to lunch. Pete and I went to an Indian restaurant a block away. The best news was that we scored rooms at the hotel around the corner, so after lunch and the setting up of my gear, I had time to go and use their treadmill, which gave me a little energy boost to make it through the day. After soundchecking, I had a pretty thorough flute/saxophone warm up--it was a little tricky, because I hadn't been playing that much at home, so I was a bit worried that my warm up might go too long, and I might wear myself out. dinner at the venue! The gig went well. I had some pretty solid flute solos on Lotta Love and Lowdown , and I made i...