Tour Wrapup
Posted on | April 22, 2010 | No Comments
Well, that was a whirlwind few days there, and I capped it off with a trip up to Seattle to rehearse the Kora Band for our upcoming recording session and cool gigs, but now I am back at home with a couple days to relax. I’ll start by sharing a few pictures from our last day of tour in San Francisco, where we enjoyed unbelievable weather:
Despite our great fatigue from late night driving, Dan and I employed the good old jet lag tactic of staying up all day and being outside as much as possible. It was great to hang out with my old friend Colin Williams (whose class we had taught earlier in the day) and relax before our evening gig:
Our last gig of the tour was certainly the best. We played at a very hip, tiny room in the Mission called BlueSix, along with Darren Johnston’s Nice Guy Trio, a fantastic trumpet-accordion-bass trio from SF. Their music was really fun and jaunty, and a great pleasure to hear. Our set went really well too, many of Dan and Kevin’s families and all of our Bay Area friends showed up, and with the addition of the Nice Guy Trio’s fans, we packed the place! The audience was extremely attentive and appreciative, always a pleasure (and unfortunately rare), so thanks to everyone who came out down in SF. I only have one bad picture from the show, but you get the idea:
San Francisco is always one of my favorite cities to visit, and it seems that I always schedule it so I have almost no free time there. This held true again on this trip, as Kevin and I had to blast out of town the next morning since we were both subbing with Portland’s most rockin’ Afrobeat band, Jujuba, in Mt. Shasta City the next day. That was lots of fun too, though the scheduling was a bit rough.
Overall a fun trip with a bit too much driving, and a good kickoff for the new CD, “82% Chance of Rain.”
Lots more touring coming up in the near future: The Tunnel Six cross-Canada tour kicks off in just about a month in Toronto, and the Kora Band will be on tour up and down the West Coast in September, among other things! What a busy year. I feel very lucky to be able to do all of these things, it’s a great pleasure and privilege.
I’m going to re-focus some energy on this blog in the near future too, I’m considering reprising some “serieses” that I had started (Jazz Pioneers and the Post-Colonial African Groove of the Week), as well as maybe interspersing one on jazz in Portland. Stay tuned!
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