“I worked at restaurants coming up, several of them. I worked at a few vegetarian restaurants in Ithaca, New York, my hometown, and I worked at a deli run by Hungarian Jews that had a really good chicken soup with matzo balls. I was mainly the carrot cutter. I’ve been working towards getting more into [...]
Tag Archives: Schatzy
The Accordion: Party in a Box
August 1, 2007 – 12:01 am
At least once every Schatzy performance, Greg Schatz jumps off the stage and makes his way through the crowd. But even as he leaves the bandstand, he takes the music with him. Schatz fronts the band that bears his name, and as he winds through the club he pushes and pulls on the bellows of [...]
The Schatzy Band, Nocturnal Wild Life Journal (Hot Spazz Records)
August 1, 2007 – 12:01 am
You might expect a band so connected to its live shows to get combative with its audience at some point, and the latest release by Schatzy (now called The Schatzy Band, perhaps in deference to its position as a local drunk-rock supergroup of sorts) shows signs of just such a strained relationship. This being Schatzy, [...]
