I sit typing in a cafe in Flagstaff, Arizona, on the last leg of a tour that began on May 21st, and also at the end of a period of traveling that began on May 8. It’s been a wild ride, touring in a van across America, seeing many cities for the first time, or at least for the first time in a very long time. St. Louis, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and tons of cities in between.
Touring is a good opportunity to see new places, meet new people, and deliver your musical message in a variety of contexts. It brings me closer to the instrument I’m touring with, and fills me with ideas to execute once I come home to the instruments I’m missing. This includes my recently-purchased fender rhodes piano, with which I can’t wait to start composing.
I’ve also had the chance to play with/meet a new batch of great musicians; the mastermind behind this last tour, Cliff Hines, has been a great bandleader to work with. Also in the mix, vocalist Sasha Masakowski, and drummers G Maxwell Zemanovic and Charles Burchell- amazing musicians, one and all. It’s stimulating and broadening to encounter new musicians and get thrown into a tour among people with whom you’ve never played. It’s been a good run.
I’ll be returning to New Orleans in a few days, finally stopping to organize many projects I have happening this summer. Some recording projects/finished albums with friends that will, for now, remain nameless. Some new compositions and projects of my own- and of course reconnecting with all my people back home and playing around New Orleans again for the first time since early May.
June 21 - One Eyed Jack’s, New Orleans, LA (w Andrew Duhon)
June 22 - Mobile, AL (venue TBA) (w Andrew Duhon)
June 23 - Fairhope, AL (venue TBA) (w Andrew Duhon)
June 28 - Blue Nile (downstairs) - New Orleans, LA (w/ Cliff Hines)
June 30 - Maison, New Orleans, LA (w/ Brad Walker)
July 2 - Open Ears, Blue Nile Upstairs, New Orleans, LA (w/ Georgi Petrov)
summertime. here goes - - - - - >
(^ Ethiopian coffee, siphon brewed by the good gentlemen at Blue Bottle Coffee in San Fran)
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