The first crop of hay has been cut in the field close to the studio. Driving by last weekend I saw not one, not five, not 15 but 35-40 storks gracefully strolling through the field sucking up bugs and frogs. It was quite a sight, folks. Storks are kind of fairy tale creatures to me. And so very rare, that in the 28 years we have lived in Germany, I doubt that I've seen 40 storks. If they were around, they would be hard to miss. They are honking big birds! As we all know from watching the Disney movie, "Dumbo", the stork is kept busy carrying babies to happy families. Seeing so many storks in the area make me think we're about to experience a population explosion. None at my house, please, thank you very much! My youngest just turned 18!
I had 2 concerts in the last week. Last Thursday at Dudelsack in Karlsruhe as special guest of a Sandie Wollasch concert. Sandie and Matthias Hautsch (guitar) and Tommy Baldu (percussion) invited me to do 4 songs with them. I sang "Lean on Me", and "What Are You Doing the Rest of your Life" (by special request of Sandi) as solos. Sandie and I sang two duets: "Shop Around", a great romping fun song made famous first by Smoky Robinson, and then again by The Captain and Tenille, and "Things", an ode to the 60's and Bobby Darin who wrote it and first recorded it. I completely forgot my text and just made stuff up, but nobody noticed except Sandi who tried desperately to follow my rantings. She was fantastic and we laughed so hard. We always enjoy singing together.
We sang together again on Saturday when we had a 4yourSoul concert in Bamberg. A long drive to sing one of our rare 4yourSoul concerts in an Open Air venue on a rainy evening along the banks of the Regnitz River. Was it worth the 3 1/2 hour drive? You better believe it! Edo Zanki was in excellent voice as was our special guest of the evening, Charles Simmons. Such a talented singer. And kind of nice to feast your eyes on, too! :)
We've blocked 2 weeks in March 2010 for 4yourSoul concerts. We do enjoy singing together so much, but each of us is also committed to their own projects and it is really hard to coordinate concert dates. Maybe by reserving these dates for 4yourSoul concerts we can actually do a tiny tour. If you're interested in booking 4yourSoul during this time, March 15-28 2010 then you can contact Silke Pfaff at: info@onstagemedia.de
Today Luke (my 18 year old ) is having some musician friends over to jam. We love it when they come over and rock the house. It's moments like these that make Eddie and me so glad we finally bought a house. Rock on , my babies!