Thursday at Cranberries
Cranberries, 5740 Silver Hill Rd, Suitland, MD 20747

I arrived at Cranberries a little after 8 PM. Cranberries is an African-American owned upscale restaurant (entrees range from $10.49-$21.49) and bar. I sat in the no-smoking section, where Familiar Faces was set up. They perform at Cranberries every other week and do not perform GoGo there - not all of Familiar Faces was present for that reason.

Familiar Faces
The line up was Mike Muse, D-Floyd, Doc, Pooh, Godfather, and BJ. They peformed the neo-soul and jazz covers (I don't believe there were any originals) that they normally feature in their Jazz sets. I believe I arrived before they started performing. Some of the waitress had an unusual hair style - their black hair was partially dyed red, mostly in their single pony tail - it was vaguely reminiscent of a rooster (at least to me it was). They performed three sets - the restaurant was pretty packed during the first two sets.

At the beginning of the second set, they tried to get a friend, nicknamed "Luigi of the Super Mario Bros." to play on Godfather's keyboard, but after warming up, he decided not to. Mike Muse did offer congratulations to the large wedding party present and noted the passing of Ray Charles.

The last set, as usual, cranked the most. Also, during the set, Mike Muse spoke out about politics in the world today including the current president "Not liking people of my color." "Little Big Harold" sat in on trumpet for a little while, with and without a Harmon mute. At the end, Donnell joned as usual - talking about how they alternate Thursdays with "Little Big Harold", who replied, that's "Mr. Little Big Harold." Donnell also talked about how Jauhar had been wrong about the Lakers that he didn't know about Mr. Miracle (Kobe). Jauhar called him after he thought the Pistons had won, but then after the Lakers won, Donnell called him three minutes later, he never answered, even though Donnell called him one hundred times.