Sunday, March 30, 2003
State College, PA
It's going to be a short update today as I am exhausted. Tonight will be our fourth show in a row with very little sleep due to long overnight trips. Our ride from Detroit, MI to State College, PA took a little over 7 hours and the roads were bumpy and sometimes snow covered.We had over 10 thousand jubilant fans for the Detroit show. Based on the email reviews I'm getting and the way we all played it was another winner!
During sound check tonight Yanni mentioned how much the audiences are enjoying World Dance, an Irish flavored tune we play as an encore. It starts out as a hammer dulcimer solo and ends up with all the soloists taking improvisational turns.
We get a day off tomorrow in Rochester. My son, Jeremy will be there and we plan to visit Niagara falls. He's also bringing me a mountain dulcimer so I'll get to accompany David as he plays our new Takamini bus guitar we purchased.
Pedro just informed me we have only 30 minutes until show time. I was thinking we had an 8 o'clock start tonight - but it starts at 7:30!. I have some snow pictures but I'll have to wait and post them tomorrow. Gotta run - Dan