It’s lovely up here. We’ve officially been in the Northwest since the first of October and it just grew more and more beautiful the farther North we went.
Salem and Medford were the small towns, but we met with friends and made a good time of it.
Portland and Eugene were simply beautiful cities. They seemed like pocket sized versions of San Francisco with clean and stylish downtown areas but not so removed from the countryside that you couldn’t feel the land and the clean air all around.
Communities invest in things that they feel are important, and it was apparent that the arts were important to the people up here from a look at the their theaters. The medieval style of the Elsinore Theater in Salem, the grandeur of the Schnitzer Hall in Portland and the emerald green interior of Sylva Hall at the Hult Center in Eugene; each one simply gorgeous. I tried getting some interior shots but the lighting just blacked everything out. You’ll have to take me at my word. Better yet, get tickets to a show and make a trip out of it. Just entering the theaters will be worth the price of admission.
We had a day off to travel to Olympia but have a show again tonight, so I’m packing up and heading out the door for sound check. Maybe we’ll see some of you there tonight.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
my first blog
Hi All,
This may be a wonderful alternative to my Concert Chatter, for which I have written nothing in several years. Concert Chatter took quite a bit of time to conceive, write, edit, and have it come out reading as though some thought went into it. With all of the touring the Kingston Trio has been doing for the past three years, I simply didn't devote any time to writing, and for that I have felt some guilt...........okay, not that much, but some.
This blog won't really take the place of a long, thematic piece like Concert Chatter, but it will allow me to spit out some short pieces and perhaps attach some interesting pictures.
I thought that since this blog site shows in its initial offering a memorial picture to our recently deceased friend John Stewart, I would attach an odd little picture that was sent to me quite some time ago, from back in the days of the Bob/Nick/George configuration of the Kingston Trio. You must look twice to recognize that there are four of us here. It's just that Bob is obscured by his own halo !!!
There will be more blogs here, especially if you guys seem to enjoy it.......or if I find it to be an easy place to gripe, complain, piss & moan.
George
Saturday, May 3, 2008
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