We’re doing it again. At the Urban Coffee Lounge in Kirkland, Friday, February 10th.
Event details on the Facebook. “Like” us to find out where we’re playing next.
Oh, and we have a snappy new website.… continued…
My first gig with The Castaways is January 29th at C&P Coffee in West Seattle.
If you want to keep up with us, we’re on Facebook.
We also have a website with brand new audio clips.
Uncle Bill Tapia passed away at 103 years old. I got to meet him when he was approaching 99, he’d just bought a house and joked that he was on a 30 year mortgage. He was teaching at the Kalama Days of Discovery, a festival that acknowledges and celebrates the connection between Kalama, Washington and the Hawaiian islands. I’d gone to take photos. Uncle Bill was hanging out between sessions in a little lounge room in the community center, I went in to introduce myself and to explain that I was taking photos for the festival organizers.… continued…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
The first time I went to Hawaii, I got crazy from the sound of the ukulele. When I returned to Seattle, I’d decided that I was going to make that sound myself. I had no idea how this was going to happen, only that it was. I shopped, listlessly, for a real uke, and I failed to buy one for about a year. One spring afternoon, I was standing on a friend’s front porch — they were getting rid of as many of possessions as they could bear to part with.… continued…
