Hello friends
Happy New Year to you all!
Last night I spent many hours collecting together and uploading photo's from my musical adventures in 2007. It's my way of honouring 2007 remembering all the wonderful people, places and experiences. The gift of music is that you can travel with it, you can take it anywhere and it can feed you on the road.....'music as shoes' as my friend Barnaby would say.
Anyway in 2007 those musical shoes have taken me to America, Czech Republic and paris. I have made different photo albums for each tour, check the pics to see them.

RAMBLE MY ROSE TOUR APRIL/JULY 2007
This was a selection of concerts that myself and my friend Katy Carr played together, mainly in the UK and some in the Czech Republic. We played a lot of house concerts and made many new friends on this tour, including Lou and Phill in Scarborough who organised a beautiful concert for us and introduced us to their musical community. Thanks to all the scarborough crew and the Shmuck family for hosting the concert. Thanks also to Lucy, Dan and Amy for the parlour concert in Hebden Bridge, Natasha and Stephano, Julia and family in Malvern, The Full Moon Club in Haye on Wye, Phil and Helen, Alex and Jenny. Tony and Nicky in York.
Some memorable moments include singing 1940's songs to the old folks in Scarborough, playing for our supper and lodgings in a random pub after getting stranded north of Oxford due to torrential floods that had overtaken the country. Sipping tea and eating cucumber sandwiches with The Mcdowells ( Scottish aristocrat family ) at their home in Dumfries. Hijacking the grand piano in Cafe Slavia, Prague and annoying the waitresses by asking for free drinks and absynthe.

KINGS AND QUEENS US TOUR JUNE 07
This was a month tour of the States with Rose Polenzani, we drove from Boston to Chicago playing in New York, North Carolina, Nashville, Louisville, Washington DC, Decatur GA, Madison WI and many other places....
Thanks to Jeff for the house concert in Boston, Sandy and Heather for the Garden concert in Decatur, Natalie and Cindy for concerts in DC and Pittsburgh PA. Ant and DW Box in Louisville KY.
Again another incredible tour and lots of new friendships and experiences.
Fun times, singing karaoke in Nashville, meeting the 17 year cicadas in Chicago, playing ukelele and writing songs with Rose, dancing salsa in New York, making music video's with Rose, singing with session americana.

BUSKING IN PARIS AUGUST 07
A week busking in Paris.... I had not been busking since I was 16 so when my friend and musical collaborator Nick Barrell invited me busking with him I was intrigued. Loading up the car with our guitars and little busking amps, we took the ferry from Newhaven ( only 20 mins from Brighton ) arriving in Dieppe and drove to Paris.
We stayed with my friend Salome in The Marais, which is the trendy and rather expensive part of Paris. Spent our days playing by the river and outside cafes, and the evenings with Salome meeting her friends and watching lots of Little Britain. We didn't get rich busking in Paris but made enough to eat and drink for the week, which can cost quite a lot in the Marais.