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I have just discovered The Pink Turtles! Magical!

The International Moveable Feast !

‘Reaching out’ to the EU, as they say.

If not for me . . . .

This is a great book – beautifully written. And it inspired me to write this song.

‘If not for me…..’

on the album

‘New Start, New Day’ by Rowland Jones

On Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon

My (mini) studio . . .

Fortunately did not awake to the sound of broken wood and strings this morning …

The sun of the South . . .

Expecting it to be a little warmer in Calabria, we took a slightly lighter ‘wardrobe’ than is customary in a Umbria December. Unfortunately I didn’t know that we were playing outdoors! So the debut of Mr ‘Michelin Man’ Jones.

Festa dell’Uva @ Chiusi

So suddenly out of the blue, Valerio calls me about doing a gig for this festa.  He used to run a bar in the village when I lived here first time around.

It was a great night  and we launched a newly arranged/written tune ‘Two steps back’

Very pleased with it.

Ironically a few days after speaking to Valerio, this poster fell out of a book… one of the first gigs I did in Italy when Valerio had the bar in the village!!!

I think it would have been 9th April 1999 . . .  I reckon

Warm evening & cool blues ?

Actually, no. A cold wet evening with some ‘hot blues’ (he said modestly…) until the cold meant we were no longer able to play as frostbite set in…but a fun night anyway.

 

Rowland Jones and the Young Reds at Baschi

Beautiful location ! More subdued music but still great fun. A young singer joined us for a couple of tunes, but she didn’t know the words to Summertime…. so she read them from Giacomo’s iPhone–iPhone/Autocue !!