The Bell Tower Cultural center is on the corner of my block in lovely downtown Florence, Colorado. Built in 1898, the building was originally a Baptist Church. It still looks like a particularly attractive specimen of one of those, and it’s still used as a church on Sundays by the local Mennonites. But the rest of the time it hosts concerts, art exhibits, classes, open mics, and the local Tuesday Ladies Mahjong Club. I’ll be playing there on Saturday February 21 from 7-9. There’s a ten-dollar cover.

Funny thing, though: Whoever put together the official Florence Cultural Center flyer for this event somehow decided, instead of using the brief description I’d sent upon request, to edit the word “seasonal” out of a flyer for a Christmas show I did a couple of years ago, yielding “An Evening of Warm Cheer” as the subtitle for my performance. I tried to gently correct this, but it became clear that if I wanted them to change I’d have to get insistent, and I didn’t want the person who’d poured her attention into the creation of the flyer to feel put out. So instead I’ve decided to embrace the warm cheer. I’m going to be so freaking warm and cheerful at this show that you won’t even know what happened. You’ll be scratching your head asking yourself to ol’ grumpy, taciturn, morose Boor. There’s going to be warm cheer flooding the heating ducts in that place. If you decide not to go but you get a “warm cheer alert” on your phone, you’ll know why. It’s me, Warm Cheer Boor.

See you there.