Bridgetown Sextet!
Well I’ve been a bit absent from the internet of late, partially due to nice weather and partially due to various trips and a typically nutso schedule in general. However, I’m back and ready to type, as it were, armed with some great upcoming shows for the rest of the summer and into the fall, [...]
Friday Night at Jimmy Mak’s!
I’m excited to be repeating a great double-bill over at Jimmy Mak’s. Last February my Kora Band opened for Ben Darwish‘s last CD release party, with his Trio, during the Portland Jazz Festival, and it was really a great time. Tomorrow night we’re at it again, opening for his new quartet (the “Ben Darwish Group”)’s [...]
Tour Wrapup
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 [...]
Education Time
After a long drive and not much sleep, we woke up to some amazing Bay Area sun! This morning, we had a great time working with my good friend Colin Williams’ students at the Bay School of San Francisco. They played great and we also spent quite a bit of time talking about some of [...]
Talent, who knew!
So it turns out the tiny town of Talent, between Ashland and Medford, has this fantastic club, the Avalon, where we just finished up. What a great gig, attentive audience, great food, and everything! Totally unexpected but highly appreciated. We started the day by admiring Mary Sue’s father’s amazing 6,000+ LP collection: Then enjoyed the [...]
Onward to Ashland!
Well we had a great time last night at Sam Bonds, good attendance, good vibe, and the other band was not only great, they were also really nice guys, as Mary Sue excitedly pointed out. A few photos from yesterday: rearranging the cars in a Wilsonville parking lot, Eric Gruber proves his claim that the [...]
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