Here are a few final shots of the Music by the Lake concert series that I did this past wekend. I will be up in Williams Bay, WI again in two weeks to play with the Three Irish Tenors.Here you can see the extreme slope of this campus. The golf carts were for taking...
Michael Goode of the Chicago Reading Orchestra was recently interviewed this week in the Chicago Reader by Deanna Isaacs. The article caught my attention because it was referring to a piece written by composer Bjorn Berkhout. Bjorn was my roommate in college at...
Our first peformance of The Student Prince by Sigmund Romberg was last night in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. The piece is very charming, and the cast and orchestra sound very good. Last year this festival was hit with record high temperatures, and one of the bass players...
I am adding a couple of new sites to my Blogroll. Rockabillybass.com is a site maintained by Shawn Burrell. It is an excellent site about rockabilly bass in general, with interviews, forums, gear talk, lessons, and the like. There are also set up tips and rockabilly...
Rolle from BassFireBlog just left me a comment pointing out these two great sites from Jonas Lohse in Germany. One site is his own blog:http://www.kontrabassblog.de/It is an all-German site. My German is pretty terrible, so reading the posts is slow for me, but it is...