My wife and I survived our first Irish wedding. With the ceremony on St. Steven’s Green in Dublin and then the reception in the Wicklow Mts. DJ and my awkward Anglo dancing until 2am. Then the hotel staff went home and the acoustic guitars came out. Singing until 4am! Great fun and we are so happy for our singer/songwriter friends Gary Burke and Katie Burke. They made our life in Dublin rich and full of great music when we lived here for a few years. On to the Americanos to start our day relaxing in Glendalough, Ireland. — at Glendalough.
I hope every one had a fine Mother’s Day yesterday. Here is a quick video from my Mother’s Day gig. What a view up there!! The go pro camera is fun but singers with they’re own video cameras should beware of narcissism 🙂 Ha!
I’m back at this wine tasting room in Saratoga on Wednesday from 5pm to 8pm.
So its been a while since I’ve posted anything on my news page. I got pretty busy this last fall between and bunch of solo gigs and some voice over work showing up along with keyboard and bass guitar projects with The Miles Schon Band. I’m not naturally great at managing my time so after feeling pretty over whelmed I eventually learned to “make lists”. A brilliant technique for helping me not freak out about what seemed to be a boat load of booking and voice overs needing to be done. The Wednesday night gigs at The Toll House Hotel in Los Gatos have ended but the weekly solo gigs at the San Jose Fairmont Hotel as well as some of the winter farmer’s markets are keeping my solo material polished. Miles Schon and I continue to perform a duo at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose every couple of week. Our duo material is getting tighter and Miles continues to be a brilliant and rewarding musical partner.
So for 2015 I’m going to focus on re releasing my original EP on iTunes as well as releasing for sale some recordings of the covers I perform solo. I also need to wrangle some new and current video and photos. Thanks to fans and friends for a wonderful 2014 playing music! All the best to all of you for 2015.
Wil
Really nice day this was. I felt like I was playing in a garden in the space they have the musician set up. Note how nice the Bose Compact columns hold my banner between them 🙂 LOL
I’ve made the move from a gas generator to battery power for my out door gigs. The next step is solar power! Good fun with gadgets and toys for me. Ha!
Summer Music Festival, The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA.
Well I tried to get a band with this name off the ground in Vail a number of years ago and due to distractions and life changes it never happened. I’ve always liked the name and after partnering with singer Jackie Turner here in the south bay I’ve launched the name, with a band of course, 🙂 again!
I’m on bass guitar in this band with some contribution on acoustic guitar.
I’ve got a fledgling website at mojoblanc.com and we’ve played out a couple of times to rave reviews. We are playing two shows this week end at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA. I’ve included a video of us a couple of Saturdays ago playing at the Fairmont. We’re getting calls for more and more dates and bookings this summer so its all looking good for now. Stay tuned…
Jan.29th Facebook Post: – Last minute gig tonight at Milk Bar on Haight St. with “Doc Roberts and Strange Brew”. Featuring Miles Schon on guitar. Strat and Kurzweil are my assignments 🙂
Very exciting last two weeks for me. Getting to go to the NAMM show and perform with the Miles Schon Band was way cool. Then last nights “last minute” gig in the Haight Ashbury district in San Francisco was great fun too. I’m now on keyboards full time when I work with Miles and remembering old keyboard chops and developing new ones has been very cool!
Next Friday the Miles Schon Band will be back at the Fenix in San Rafael. This is a really nice live music venue. I’m looking forward to it!
So after years of hearing about the NAMM show (National Association of Music Merchants) in the Anaheim CA convention center. I finally went. The Miles Schon Band was booked and I initially thought I’d skip the convention and just show up for the gig.
I got so excited hearing about the convention from other musicians though I ended up going three full days! What a kick for a gear head like me. Tons and tons and tons of cool new equipment coming out in 2014. I really don’t need anything new but thats never stopped me from buying new gear before 🙂
The bands performance went great and I’m already looking forward to next year!
What an awesome but tiring week. First, I drove from San Jose to Big Bear Lake, California to visit some long time friends who I used to SCUBA dive with back in the early 90s (Do you guys remember the 1900s?). What a treat to see Loren and Patty again! I had never met their 16 year old son Conor. Just shows you how long its been since I saw them last. They are some of the nicest people I’ve ever met.
Barbecue on Big Bear Lake with great friends!
Then on to Las Vegas where I played keyboards and guitar with “The Miles Schon Band”. We were playing in the Lounge at The Palms Hotel and Miles’s dad Neil Schon (founding member of Journey) was playing with Journey in the main concert hall. After they’re show the band came over to watch us. Very exciting for me and I’m still a bit star struck with the whole thing. I’m starting to calm down though LOL.
Then yesterday morning I got up early (just a few hours sleep from performing the night before) and drove 8 hours north through the desert to Lake Tahoe for a weekend of solo performances at the Ritz Carlton in the Northstar ski resort. I’m being reminded that travel is a big part of being a full time musician. Thankfully I love to travel 🙂
I hope you guys have a nice Labor day week end and thanks again for subscribing to this blog!
Wil
This was “The Lounge at The Palms” where we played.Marquee at The Palms Hotel, Las Vegas, NevadaDriving from Big Bear Lake back down to the desert and Las Vegas!
