After an “interesting” solo IJ set, we brought the Thanksgiving Pageant to you all with a bang as promised. I can’t say it was without a few technical difficulties, but regardless it was pretty fun.

We said that you’d get a dollar off if you dressed up like a pilgrim or Indian, and then people actually did. It was awesome.

We had a table set up with crayons for the audience to draw their own personalized hand turkeys.

Overall, the night was fantastic and we all want to do a bigger and better one next year. I promise to scan in some of the turkeys that were drawn throughout the night so you can share your piece of Thanksgiving magic with friends and family.

Check out the show and the Jargon in The Gainesville Sun.

-Shaun

October 28th found the Jargon heading out and about.

The University of South Florida beckoned us, and we were more than happy to respond to the call along with Morningbell.

We hit them with our “America” themed set and an unplanned, epic 10 minute version of Jada Pinkett Smith that can be found

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Excuse the awkwardness, the song was never planned. And anyway, awkward transitions are part of the fun, right? The “song” doesn’t even really start until 2 minutes into the recording after everyone finished setting up, and then it really kicks into high gear at minute 4.

Overall the response was amazing from the few people who showed up. We all decided that that was one of the most fun shows we’ve played, and it was totally cool to hang out with The Bell and watch their hour and 15 minute long set.

Stacie on keyboards not pictured. But she remains in our hearts.

And we even sold a CD while we were down there. Four people who came to the show together put their money together to buy a copy of Hot From the Oven. I imagine when they get home they will promptly make another 3 bootlegged copies.

In other news we sold out of shirts this month. That means new designs! Woooo!

-Shaun

For the past month, Morningbell (along with The Jargon) have been planning something special for our annual Nov 9th show at The Shamrock. Last year, we brought you National Inuit Jargon Day, this year we’re bringing you a full-blown Thanksgiving Pageant!

We have a big stage show planned complete with construction paper belt buckles and free song-books for the audience so everybody can sing along to an ALL-NEW selection of songs about Thanksgiving written especially for the show.

If you come to one show before Thanksgiving, make it this one.

You can read more about the show (on November 9th) in this Thursday’s edition in UF’s very own campus newspaper The Alligator.

Details:
Where: The Shamrock
When: 10pm
Why: Inuit Jargon, Morningbell, and the a free-for-all participation-heavy Thanksgiving Pageant

There haven’t been any updates for a while, but that doesn’t mean that nothing has been happening in the with the Jargon.

October 21st we returned to Sidebar’s huge stage along with Umoja Orchestra and Morningbell “playing Talking Heads”

Thanks for everyone who came out. The crowd was in full effect.

There were a lot of technical difficulties in our set, and not everything worked out as planned, but that didn’t stop everybody else that night from rocking.

Umoja Orchestra was amazing as usual as these pictures can attest to:
pictures by Brandi Hill

and Morningbell kept the crowd entertained like they’ve been doing for 3 years now.

All in all a good night was had by all… Hopefully.
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-Shaun