Jam with the Carling Band

Last night I had the pleasure of jamming with the Carling Family band, which was a great treat since they are some of the best musicians I've ever seen. It's quite tough to sit in on the early dixie style jazz that they play without some prior practice, but I think I held my own pulling down bass lines on my Bari. It's also hard to take solos when juxtaposed against such great musicians, so I felt my playing was rather pedestrian, but people have had generally good comments so I guess it wasn't as bad as I thought.

Hope to do more while I'm here...

Herrang Week 2 (My first week)

I'm all settled in in Herrang, Sweden for the biggest dance camp in the world. I'm doing Balboa classes this week, and they are going well, and also I've been recruited for the usual crazy and random projects that go on in Herrang. The first one this year was to arrange the song L-O-V-E in 3 part harmony for the teachers to sing at the daily meetings. Did this project with a crazy dude named Chris Wells. We've got rehearsals coming up soon, we'll see how it goes.

Tonights agenda: Hot Dog eating contest!

Vietnamese Root Canal

I had a root canal done in Vietnam a few days ago.  It started as some pain in a tooth that had a root canal done about 10 years ago, and turns out to have become infected and gone bad.  So, out with the old filling, and in with the antibiotics.  Unfortunately, I didn't have the time to do the whole process before I left for Sweden so I have a temporary filling and a series of antibiotics to take for the next few weeks, and I need to find a dentist here to finish the job.  More to come soon.

P.S.  I'm in Herrang now.  More on that soon.