Wild Week(s)

Dear friends,

I have been remiss, compartmentalized, frazzled... and things are changing fast. So I am sending out a revised schedule for the weekend. You already had it all planned out? Aha!

Well... me too! Anyway, put some gas in your american car and drive around with me. There is music to be enjoyed! Big thanks to those who made it to Caffe Sole in Table Mesa last night! It was a really nice night for the Dexter Payne Quartet (with Bill Kopper, Dave Willey, Raoul Rossiter.) We played our Brazilian choro, samba, forro in a really congenial and human setting for a lively audience. Watch for us again on the same date next month, March 10.

Last minute announcements:
I have a date tomorrow afternoon with the Kailin Peace project in Brush. Yes, your heard me, Kailin is back in town! Also an extra set with the entire Lionel Young Band, the Victory Set, on Sunday at 6pm.

The whole schedule:

SAT  Feb 12,  3:30-4:30pm International Music Fest (Morgan County Fairground, Brush)
Kailin Yong Peace Project (See www.internationalmusicfest.org)

SAT  Feb 12,  8-10pm Boulder Outlook (800 28th St, Bldr)
Lionel Young Quartet

SUN Feb 13,  6-7pm Boulder Outlook (800 28th St, Bldr)
Lionel Young Band Victory Set - the whole band!

And that's the rest of the story!

Dexter

International Blues Challenge

Just a short note to let everyone know that we, the Lionel Young Band, won the final round tonight of the IBC.

Eight bands performed for 20 minutes each in the amazing old Orpheum Theater at the end of Beale St. in Memphis, TN.  Great bands played, the amazing harmonica player/designer Lee Oscar hung out back stage, and blues fans on 3 gilded levels cheered. Great crew and stage... and when they announced the winners... we were number 1!

Lionel Young, Kim Stone, Jay Forrest, Andre Mali, Ricardo Peña, Dexter Payne - Lionel selected and we all created a sound that worked, a team that likes playing together, and apparently the fun comes across, because we have had great response from Colorado to here in Memphis. It is very rewarding and a little humbling to be selected by judges, who knows who they are or what their taste.

So here we sit, late at night, laughing and a little giddy... and really tired... and very happy!