Mid Summer

Back from our vacation to NYC and DC. had a great time with fantastic friends including some former students that now live in NY....they saved us by showing us stuff we would have never seen.

Jeff and Jen in DC took us to their jersey shore house and then their house in ramsey.
they also hosted our adventures at the statue of liberty and such...even got to see the cake boss and DC cupcakes.

Working on arrangements of "Sugar Bum bum" and "Calypso"...more on that later

book 6 order information

you can go to www.tropicalshores.net/books.htm to order a book 6 at the discounted price of $20 plus $5 shipping.

BOOK 6 DONE!

incredibly as it seems, book 6 is done a week early! it feels so good to get that book done, big relief. next up is the christmas book 2..but im sure that will not be as big of a project.

Job uncertainly is rampant in our district as we voted to close one elementary school last month. now linda and i do not know exactly what our jobs are and in what buildings we will be teaching in. all we know is that we have jobs and that we will be working hard as usual.

Time for new tunes

Starting to add new songs to our list of songs...this means SOME practicing but mostly learning them at the gig. It is always refreshing to play new stuff cause the old stuff seems really stale to us...but people like the classics.

Todays' gig will be hot but hopefully in the shade at Larry's sports bar. 4-7 pm and we are hoping for a good crowd, it makes the gig more fun.

summer gigs are here

Summer has arrived with outside gigs in the 100 degree weather. played 2 gigs today where the client did not honor the "Shade required" clause. this forces us to be nice people and suck it up and play in direct sunlight, grimacing the entire time as our drums go out of tune.

luckily today was a grouping of 3 short sets in two different locations. The second was at a local sports grill that was having a summer "grand opening" and we were parked on a stage in the parking lot, (yes in direct sunlight). We are actually playing every sunday at this place from 4 to 7 pm. pretty good gig i think, cause the next performances will be in the shade.

fun fun fun

book 6

book 6 is just about ready. i have about 5 songs to record and make "camera ready"...
there is a very big selection of tunes....some beatles, the theme from MASH, just to name a few.

trying to stay motivated in the middle of a bad head cold.