This tour was an experience like no other. So much work, so much fun. Learned a lot about the bigger world out there, both musically and environmentally/socially. Met some remarkable people, reconnected with others, played for some really outstanding audiences.
I think I am also done with not having a tour manager. Marika, Dina and Alex [...]
Lexington KY, backstage at the woodsongs radio broadcast… met a lovely young lad named ben who sheepishly asked to play marika’s cello, saying, “yeah, i’ve studied a little”… turns out hes going on tour with some guy named bela fleck in his sparrow quartet later this month. besides that, he can play his ass [...]
May 6, 2007Categories: generalNo commentsa powerful, heart wrenching look into the darkest hours of the fried caravan tour. around the time this was filmed the band was seriously considering eating the opening act. sorry, jenny.
May 5, 2007Categories: generalNo commentsafter weeks of fruitless experimentation, the band finally discovers the precise combination of three words that can break marika’s stoic exterior and send her into uncontrollable spasms of laughter on command: LET – HER – BE (said with generous carolina drawl). try it sometime.
May 5, 2007Categories: generalNo commentsafter a fun show in moundridge KS, alex stumbled upon a crowd gathered around his cajon, examining it as if they had just found it at the bottom of a smoldering crater in a corn field. i think they were looking for the midgets inside making all that racket… shh, don’t scare them…
May 5, 2007Categories: generalNo commentsin a remote stretch of kansas, the crew attempts (foolishly) to find a taste of the bay area… or at the very least, a taste of vegetables.
May 5, 2007Categories: generalNo comments