2nd Story

Because his lovely wife was indisposed, a friend took me to the 2nd Story event this weekend at Webster's Wine Bar.










In 2nd Story's words:

2nd Story is a hybrid performance festival combining wine, music and storytelling. Anyone new to the 2nd Story experience can expect to experience four or five stories, taste four different wines, enjoy an eclectic variety of sonic landscapes and hopefully make some new friends. Stories range from the hilarious and celebratory to poignant and emotionally resonant and are told in the first-person narrative.

The flights of wine are purchased at the beginning of the night and the first taste, which the first storyteller introduces, goes down before the first story, and everyone tastes it together and then the story begins. And then 30 minutes later...another taste is dropped and that storyteller announces that wine and then goes into the story. The wine is held in reverence and the story is held in reverence and the music hooks it all together. We want to make the people that are there talk to each other. There are no TVs in this bar. It's a place to come and have conversation.

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I'm not sure about the reverence, but the wine was good and we enjoyed the work of a several writers, including the affable Megan Stielstra, who we'd heard at No Love For Love.


[pictured at top: the unhipster who invited me to 2nd Story]