Partners in beauty & crime, so to speak ! Gerry obviously sounds like the perfect sidekick, and his presence by your side on stage is yet another proof of your great musical taste, Suzanne. Have fun tonight ! Arno
 

Funny! When I was undergrad in Boston as a philosophy major I inadvertently accumulated 60 credits before I realized it it was time to graduate and I was one music history course short of a B.A. in music to go along with the one in Philosophy but it was too late cause I had a total of 150 credits...not unlike Doonesbury...didn't want to move on but somewhere in there I squeezed in 5 semesters of French and it was always last on my list of things to study and the grammar did not come easy to me as I always think in English but I had a great vocabulary in French. But last semester I took it pass/fail as you were allowed to do for one course per semester. When I had my oral exam in the hallway with my dear professor (picture the SNL skit with that handsome actor...what's his name where he makes everyone enunciate to the point of absurdity) so I was so bad at speaking French I said to him: "please, I just want to get on with my life...I'm a philosophy major with 60 music credits...if you pass me I promise I will never attempt to speak French in public...) he passed me and I've kept my word but not because of the promise...because it's just too embarassing...the way you have to "sing" the language...but that's also what I love about the language...hearing it sung...I can imagine you speaking/singing Suzanne...I'd hang on every sylabble. When I started studying I was hanging with a Palestinian girl named Rima who turned me on to Noam Chomsky's "The Fateful Triangle" and she had it in French and we read it together along with "L'etranger" which I was able to read all the way through...weird...but your blurb brought back all those memories...part of the deal at school was supposed to be one year exchange program with the Sorbonne which I couldn't afford so I never got the "immersion" experience that you're getting now...enjoy it...blow us away with your French...sing it! I've sung many songs in French along the way with chorale groups and stuff and that's a blast...thank you for writing in your blog...I look forward to reading every word...
Love,
Shep and with deepest respect to your marvelous and extremely blessed husband...
 

Je suis prêt... A dire that the last year concert de Mme Vega in Lausanne was wonderful. Je suis prêt... A dire that the sound in the Lausanne's Docks was great and perfect. I'm ready to say... that Mme Vega is the female artist I appreciate the most. I'm ready to say that,... the musical way she gives us is one of the most inspirated. Je suis prêt,... to sing with all her records I have at home. Je suis prêt,... to keep Mme Vega in my heart forever.
 

always cool how organically and spontaneously life grows, eh?!
 

I think you might be ready for a song in French, that would be "si merveilleux". ;-)
 

We all love you and your music has lightened our hearts.Many blessings,Happy Holidays!