Return to Chattanooga

I'm writing this update while sitting in a cramped jet seat on my way home to Chattanooga. I feel like I should have something profound to write here at the end of the first leg of our North American tour. The truth is, I feel like I just stepped out of the movie Groundhog Day, in which Bill Murray lives the same day over and over again. I'm profoundly looking forward to being home again and I don't expect to be very productive during my five days away from the tour, not from a work standpoint anyway.

I plan to visit with my son who'll be home from college this weekend, attend my daughter's soccer game and maybe even coach third base at her softball game, and at some point, fall asleep on the couch with my dog in my lap and my head on my wife's shoulder while she watches Trading Spaces. It doesn't get much better than that.

David and I had a great time singing and playing guitar and lap dulcimer on the two hour bus trip to Madison Square Gardens yesterday. Click the picture for a page full of photo's from New York. The show went well with the exception of one very inebriated lady who couldn't stop yelling gibberish sprinkled with an occasional "you rock," and "I love you Yanni!" It finally took an equally loud "knock it off" delivered from someone else in the audience with a heavy Brooklyn accent to quiet her down. I heard she was escorted out of the building but I didn't see it.

I don't know if I'll update this web site again until we're back on the road again next Thursday.

If you haven't done so yet, take a few minutes and check out some of my music samples by using the buttons to the left - better yet, order a couple of CD's. Here's a message from a reader who bought Turning Point this week:

I received the Turning Point cd today and I love it! I love the sound of the Hammer Dulcimer, it has such a crisp clean sound to it. I will be playing this one over and over. I will check into your other cd and will possibly be ordering that one too. I will let you know. The music has a lot of energy to it!!!

Hope you and all the musicians have a very restful week off. I bet you are really looking forward to it!!!

Thank again!!

The Cd is WONDERFUL!! ¶ 6:09 PM