Handy Festival in Florence

Oh, I love this week of the year.  No, it's not the beginning of football season in Alabama or even the beginning of fall practice.  It's Handy Festival Week in Florence which means jazz music flowing through the city.  And I love it.

Three years ago I was walking downtown one evening sticking my head in to several of the restaurants to hear the bands playing when I discovered Eric Essex at Rosie's.  What a discovery!!  This band from Birmingham is one of the best I've ever heard and I love to hear them.  

I was there again last night at Rosie's to hear them and plan to hear them several more times this week.  

Oh, I love this week of the year.