{"id":2253,"date":"2011-05-04T21:38:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T19:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2012-04-01T23:49:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T21:49:55","slug":"lonesome-dave-ferguson-at-the-grand-daddy-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/lonesome-dave-ferguson-at-the-grand-daddy-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonesome Dave Ferguson at the Grand Daddy Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"eventDate\">Fri 22 April 2011<\/div>\n<p>One-man-blues-band Dave Ferguson has been a regular fortnightly performer at the <a title=\"The Little Kings at the Granddaddy Hotel\" href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/the-little-kings-at-the-granddaddy-hotel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Daddy Hotel&#8217;s rooftop trailer park<\/a> for\u00a0 ages (the last two years, I think). I only saw him there once previously (and then again at <a title=\"RAMFEST: Day 3\" href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/ramfest-day-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ramfest<\/a> earlier this year) but thought he was really cool. He&#8217;s about to leave for Europe (or is on his way by now, I&#8217;m not sure&#8230;) and gave his last performance at the Grand Daddy laaast Friday, so Jess and I went to check it out&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a  href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2429.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\" data-rl_title=\"Dave Ferguson\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2259\" title=\"Dave Ferguson\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2429-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Ferguson\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2429-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2429.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> <a  href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2414.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\" data-rl_title=\"Dave Ferguson\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2257\" title=\"Dave Ferguson\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2414-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Ferguson\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2414-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2414.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Entertaining as ever, and perfect for a venue like the Grand Daddy; it&#8217;s easy to see why he was a regular there so long. Thank you Mr. Ferguson and good luck with your future endeavours.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2253 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Dave-Ferguson2_LMcC_2388.jpg' title=\"Dave Ferguson\" data-rl_title=\"Dave Ferguson\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Dave-Ferguson2_LMcC_2388-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Dave Ferguson\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2406.jpg' title=\"Dave Ferguson\" data-rl_title=\"Dave Ferguson\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2406-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Dave Ferguson\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/crowd2_LMcC_2409.jpg' title=\"Crowd at the Granddaddy\" data-rl_title=\"Crowd at the Granddaddy\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/crowd2_LMcC_2409-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Crowd at the Granddaddy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2425.jpg' title=\"Dave Ferguson\" data-rl_title=\"Dave Ferguson\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2425-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Dave Ferguson\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/reflections_LMcC_2434.jpg' title=\"reflections\" data-rl_title=\"reflections\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/reflections_LMcC_2434-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"reflections\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson_LMcC_2449.jpg' title=\"Dave Ferguson\" data-rl_title=\"Dave Ferguson\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson_LMcC_2449-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Dave Ferguson\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMCC_2450.jpg' title=\"Dave Ferguson\" data-rl_title=\"Dave Ferguson\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMCC_2450-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Dave Ferguson\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2454.jpg' title=\"Dave Ferguson\" data-rl_title=\"Dave Ferguson\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2454-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Dave Ferguson\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2462.jpg' title=\"Dave Ferguson\" data-rl_title=\"Dave Ferguson\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2462-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Dave Ferguson\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-fergusons-harmonicas2_LMcC_2465.jpg' title=\"Dave Ferguson\" data-rl_title=\"Dave Ferguson\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-fergusons-harmonicas2_LMcC_2465-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Dave Ferguson\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2498.jpg' title=\"Dave Ferguson\" data-rl_title=\"Dave Ferguson\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2498-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Dave Ferguson\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2504.jpg' title=\"Dave Ferguson\" data-rl_title=\"Dave Ferguson\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2504-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Dave Ferguson\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2523.jpg' title=\"Dave Ferguson\" data-rl_title=\"Dave Ferguson\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2523-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Dave Ferguson\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2539.jpg' title=\"people\" data-rl_title=\"people\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2539-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"people\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2555.jpg' title=\"Dave Ferguson\" data-rl_title=\"Dave Ferguson\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dave-ferguson2_LMcC_2555-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Dave Ferguson\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a title=\"myspace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/lonesomedaveferguson\" target=\"_blank\">Lonesome Dave on Myspace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more about the <a title=\"granddaddy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.granddaddy.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Daddy Hotel on their site <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Grand.Daddy.Hotel\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fri 22 April 2011 One-man-blues-band Dave Ferguson has been a regular fortnightly performer at the Grand Daddy Hotel&#8217;s rooftop trailer park for\u00a0 ages (the last two years, I think). I only saw him there once previously (and then again at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/lonesome-dave-ferguson-at-the-grand-daddy-hotel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[55,35,18,161,159,17,12],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gigs-live-music","tag-cape-town","tag-evenings","tag-gigs-festivals","tag-grand-daddy","tag-lonesome-dave-ferguson","tag-music-2","tag-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2281,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}