Tales From the Road is evolving!

Since our travels to Africa and extended tour with the Boston Pops started, we discovered the virtues of keeping a more regular blog presence, so starting this month, we'll link you directly to our latest entry, but invite you to enjoy learning about our experiences more often on our touring blogs at blogger.com! We will provide links to upcoming blogs on our website.


In between those African and Boston tours, we had the pleasure of meeting and singing for saxophone legend Branford Marsalis! He was speaking at Westminister Church's nationally broadcast Town Hall Forum, and took some time out of his schedule to listen to some of our rehearsal. We sang some songs for him and chatted for awhile. He was very supportive and enjoyed our music--who knows? Maybe we'll end up working together sometime...


Touring is always interesting, visiting many new places, meeting new friends--but also difficult at times. You miss your loved ones, you spend lots of hours perfecting a nap sitting up (or without strangling yourself with your iPod headphones). We've been fortunate this time around with so much airplane travel, so we're probably a little spoiled! It's so much faster than vans. We're also looking very forward to getting home to do our own Christmas show, All is Calm, based on the Christmas Day truce of WWI. This year is filled with so many fulfilling collaborations, Boston Pops, Theater Latté Da, Trio Mediaeval, St. Olaf Choir--but we'll have to tell you about all that stuff in another installment! -G