Summer Vacation 2011: a summer full of dreams
What a summer it’s been! First off: my apologies for taking so long to update the site with new material. I’ve been so busy that I just kept putting it off. In any case, I’m still here! To start off this post, let me just say that this has been probably one of the best summer’s on record for me personally. I went on vacation to another one of my childhood dream destinations: southern Spain. As a child, my parents went to Spain and told me great stories of their travels. Since then I’ve always been fascinated with the country (I speak a little Spanish), and although I’ve been to certain parts of Spain many times, this was the first time I’ve ever been on vacation on the spanish mainland. We were in the city of Torrox...
Last Night: Rich People, Fashion Victims, and Dancing ‘Til Dawn
So, I get to the gig at about three o’clock in the afternoon, a beautiful spring day in Blankenese, a wealthy suburb of Hamburg. My show last night was a wedding party at a private residence; a typical job for me, and a very lucrative one. I perform at wedding parties at least 20 – 30 times a year. Based on the location and my previous experiences performing at weddings in Hamburg, this particular show had the potential to be a good one. Among the many types of jobs I perform, I have to admit that I enjoy playing at weddings, because if you perform well, the show becomes a very memorable experience for the newlywed couple; to this day I have couples for whom I have performed come to me and tell me how much they enjoyed my show. I’ve even had couples who...
