Niki Nana

Downtown Denver was crowded last night as not only did we have a concert to perform, but at the same time the Denver Broncos were playing a snowy football game right next door. Toss in a few icy streets just to make it interesting, and you can imagine the traffic jam after the show.

For the regular readers here who are serious Yanni fans the latest news in how the show is growing and changing is this:

Niki Nana is back!

Based on the dancing and clapping we saw last night, I don't think it will be leaving again any time soon.

David Hudson is probably going to choke me for telling the following story but here goes. After last night's show, we walked out to find it was still snowing and quickly got on the bus. A few of us that were early got tired of waiting and left the bus to go outside and play. David, being an aboriginal Australian, isn't used to snow and said he wanted a picture of himself lying in the white stuff so I grabbed my camera.

David found a snowbank and fell backwards into the powder. By the time I had the camera ready to get a proper exposure he was getting very cold and a little impatient, but you can't rush these things and I instructed him to just chill out, so to speak. "Make a snow angel," I told him. He gave me one of those wrinkled brow looks that let me know he had no idea what I was talking about, and it occurred to me that since he's not used to snow, he'd never made, or even seen a snow angel. "Just move your arms and legs back and forth," I said. So he did, but since he didn't know what I was talking about he began moving them up and down like he was clapping rather than in the way that I, and the other onlookers expected, which as you all know is a sort of horizontal jumping jack. We had a good laugh at his expense and I'm glad he's a good sport. He finally figured it out and I got the pic which you can see by clicking the Photographs link.

This afternoon we take a long bus ride down hill to Colorado Springs for tonight's concert.
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