Esteemed cats and kittens! It is time once again for DooWahs to fill your ears with the dulcet tones of their melodies and fairly accurate harmonies. The DooWahs will be inhabiting Poggie Tavern, in West Seattle between 2 personal landmarks, The Great Harvest Bakery and Bakery Nouveau.

As we usually commemorate a notable event occurring on the date of our performance, this time we’d like to remember one of a number of technological feats that hold May 24th as an incept date. No, not Samuel Morse sending the message “What hath God wrought” from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate the first telegraph line in 1844. And no, it isn’t the 1883 opening of the Brooklyn Bridge after 14 years of construction. Perhaps you remember May 24th, 1961 as the date that the Freedom Riders were arrested in Jackson, MS for “disturbing the peace” after disembarking from their bus. Good times!

No, we celebrate that auspicious May 24th event from1970: the start of drilling the Kola Superdeep Borehole in the Soviet Union. The project attempted to drill as deep as possible into the Earth’s crust using the Uralmash-4E, and later the Uralmash-15000 series drilling rig. A number of boreholes were drilled by branching from a central hole. The deepest, SG-3, reached 12,262 metres (40,230 ft) in 1989 and still is the deepest artificial point on Earth.

In honor of the Kola Superdeep Borehole and it's eventual closure, The DooWahs will sing "Fixing A Hole" by the Beatles. Come sing with us.

Connie, Walter, Billy and David DooWah

P.S. Big Dad Bigelow will be sitting in on tuba.