I've been busy letting my life, in general, discombobulate me. Lot's of things have been changing in my music worlds and personal life so sometimes it's a bit hard to keep up with my posting.
My surgery for the diaphragm paralysis is scheduled after many battles going back and forth with the hospital. They wanted to do it YESTERDAY, but as I'm leaving today for Siberia, that didn't seem like it was going to work out. Bummer. The doctor who's doing the surgery is a specialist from another country coming in to do it, so now it will be happening in October. There you have it.
Now we're done with that tralala I can move onto music!!
There have been big changes made in YSJE, the band I have proudly been a member of for 13 years, this March. This year the band has seen quite the evolution. As 40 year band member, Jens Arne Molvær retired and passed the reigns onto talented clarinetist, Lars Frank, we now have only one original member of YSJE, Einar Aarø on banjo. With a lot of young talent in the band, it has gotten a new life in Traditional Jazz.
I'm still going strong as a featured vocalist with the guys in Funky Butt and Gumbo. My dear friends in Gumbo, Kåre Nymark, David Gald, Even Kruse Skatrud and Kenneth Ekornes will be joining, once again, Paul David Longstreth and myself for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. It was a great success last year and they asked us to do it again! Lovely.
I'll be heading home to New Orleans to be a part of French Quarter Festival on 11 April and the release of the new CD that Paul David and I are releasing, Tricia Boutte & The Bootleg Operation's , Oh New Orleans, Here I Come! We will also do some other sets around town. I'll make sure to keep everyone up to date on where we will play.
Now, I've gotta run! I have to finish getting myself together to leave for Novosibirsk today.
Later fa you!!!!
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