september 2007

Well, it has been a seemingly calm Fall so far, but beneath the surface bubble all sorts of pet projects and responsabilities.

As soon as I got back from the Congo, we turned around and went to Italy - - the Venice Biennale was calling to us before my appearances at the Cortona Festival in Tuscany. Our good friend Eric Owens came and stayed in our villa

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After Cortona, we rushed home to start the Klara Festival, which was hosted at Jan's theater, the KVS, and overseen by our dear friend Fabrizio Cassol. It was a music festival full of jazz, with all kinds of jazz greats doing concerts in the big hall and "late nights" in the "box." It was a crazy period, but so exciting. During this time, AKA MOON, Phillip Katrien, Toots Thielemans, and a huge host of Belgian jazz greats played at the theater. We met U.K. Sivaraman, a guru and mridagam master of the Southern Indian tradition (Carnatic), who played on the big anniversary Aka Moon concerts.