Tonight -- Viva Cantina -- Murphy's Flaw -- No audience -- Be part of it!

Murphy's Flaw

is pleased to present

An evening with nobody in particular

Singing

Songs We've Never Rehearsed

Played in

Keys We Seldom Use

On

Instruments that are Probably Not in Tune

in a 

Nearly-Empty Mexican Restaurant

(7:30 p.m. Tonight, Viva Cantina, 900 Riverside Blvd., Burbank CA)

Appearing (in order of finding a parking spot)

Dee Farnsworth (mando/vocals)

John Bryan (banjo/guitar/vocals)

Pete Blackwelder (fiddle)

Shaun Garrity (mando, mandola, guitar)

Paul Dorn (bass/vocals)

Jarrett Lesko (mando/guitar/vocals)

Uli Sinn (Dobro/SuperSlider)

Margee Schubert

Cody Bryant

JoEllen Doering

Earl Scruggs

Bela Fleck

Tommy Emmanuel

David Grisman

Tony Rice

Sam Bush

Emmylou Harris

The Infamous Stringdusters

Ernst and Young

Frick and Frack

Smart and Final

The Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile

The Board of British Petroleum featuring Tony Hayward

The non-singing waiters of Viva Cantina

Col. Sanders and "The Chicken-Pluckers"

Gov. Mark Sanford and "The Appalachan Trail"

Be there - take up space - order Margaritas - leave us tips!

We Don't Need no Stinkin' Audience!

First of all, Murphys Flaw,* constantly trying to better its string of third-place finishes at Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest, was overly exuberant and mistakenly snagged SECOND PLACE this year.

A tragic first-place finish was averted at the last minute by the insanely talented kids of the Murphy Family Band. We thank them for their valor.

Now that the crowds are gone and the TV trucks have packed up and headed to their next assignments, it's back down to earth for the Flaw, and with it the monthly Flaw gigs at Viva Cantina next to the horse stables at the edge of Burbank. We think we got the gig because we add so much to the, uh, atmosphere.

Next one is Monday, June 10, 2010. From, oh, 7:30-ish until we run out of material; in other words, 7:45 p.m.

A couple of members had the good sense to be out of town, so we invited all our friends to stage an impromptu on-stage jam at Viva Cantina. Some of them may actually show up, pushing the performance all the way to 8 p.m.

Admission is free, but tips will be collected. If that doesn't keep the attendance down, we don't know what will.

The Flaw

*(official motto: "it sounded better at rehearsal")

(unofficial motto: "We had a rehearsal?")

Murphy's Flaw is comfortable playing to empty rooms.