SPEAK to me

Last Sunday we wandered away from downtown (which was filling up with St. Patrick's Day celebrants) and went to the backyard of Lenoir where Todd Duplechan was serving up wine, beer and such taste treats as beet salad and lettuce wraps with cabrito. He'd invited in bands and one of them, about to kick off a new tune in this picture, was SPEAK, featuring Troupe Gammage in the foreground. Troupe has an authentic musical legacy...he's the son of two musician friends of ours. Austin is such a lovely place sometimes with wonderful low-key events in the wake of big, often maddening ones.