by Michael Greenland<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hmm…costume party. Reached out to enough people to know that I’d better come up with SOMETHING. I’m not blessed with creativity,\u00a0 but I do have a whole bunch of Caribbean shirts and a beard. Pirate it is.<\/p>\n Two things hit me when I walked in: I would have felt very<\/em> out of place if I hadn’t dressed up; and pirate is a very popular costume. I didn’t go quite the full pirate look of my guitar-playing nephew\/son (don’t question it, people), but the room was pulsing with creativity and fun.<\/p>\n Many of the usual reggae fans came out to pack the room for the band’s incredible performance. There was playfulness to the proceedings that was fitting for the season.<\/p>\n When “<\/em>Exodus“<\/em> comes early in the set, and “<\/em>Could You Be Loved“<\/em> closes the first half, you know it’s going to be a high-energy night. But some of the best moments are the quieter ones. There’s a reason that Donna Bell and I yell “Church!” when “<\/em>Congoman“<\/em> plays\u00a0\u2014<\/em> there’s a deep, real-life sentiment there. It’s sacred in my eyes. I spend most of that song pretty still because I just want it to wash over me.<\/p>\n As for the venue: I love Vosh. That outside patio is beautiful for kicking back between sets. And the outdoor heaters provided a\u00a0 necessary warmth after cooling down.<\/p>\n This was the kind of night that was just different in a good way. We cut loose, laughed loud \u2014\u00a0<\/em>it seemed like a million pictures were taken. So good to relive the beauty of the evening in the following days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vosh Night Club\u2019s Halloween Party by Michael Greenland Hmm…costume party. Reached out to enough people to know that I’d better come up with SOMETHING. I’m not blessed with creativity,\u00a0 but I do have a whole bunch of Caribbean shirts and a beard. Pirate it is. Two things hit me …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Zdqf-fE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosjones.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosjones.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosjones.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosjones.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosjones.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carlosjones.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/carlosjones.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosjones.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosjones.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosjones.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}