Reykjavik, Iceland

Beginning on June 20, 2013/ edited June 29,  2013

This day just goes on and on. I played a show on my Chapman Stick

in Hlemmur square from around 10- midnight but it seemed like the afternoon. The sun barely dipped below the horizon between midnight and one.  I have not slept much since Sunday night. Monday night I packed, Tuesday after adventures with tornadoes at DIA I got onto a Boeing 757 and 6 1/2 hours later I was in Iceland at 6:30 in this morning.

I wasn't tired today, just focussed on finding a new mixer. I walked to a couple music stores in Reykjavik...Andres, the owner of the second store made it his mission to help me. He drove me to an other store, then to his warehouse, then had his employee drive me around and I eventually I found a new mixer which I successfully used (for what I would later found would be my only real decent show in Reykjavik). Amazingly before the show I found a Mexican restaurant with a waitress Julia that would become my friend and a kind chef who took a liking to my gig and offered to provide me free great vegetarian food for my entire visit in Reykjavik.

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I was glad I got to see this amazing country. It's clean and beautiful, there is literally hot spring water just coming out the tap, the air is clean, the feeling of being on top of the world is totally real and the shows were pretty relaxed- (maybe too relaxed but it was a  perfect beginning to the tour). 

Tomorrow I will fly to Oslo. Lots of love and gratitude to my new friends in Reykjavik, Iceland....

My new album Golden Waves  is now available! Check it out here.

Check out this video of me playing at the Alcazaba castle in Almaria, Spain

new music on Chapman Stick and the 2013 summer tour

Hey,  just a little update guys...
this past winter in Evergreen, Colorado was awesome. I love coming up here to the mountains to get into the headspace to record some relaxation music on the Chapman Stick®. Sometimes when I come off a tour I come up here to chill and get into a simple zen space -endless peace and stillness, like the winter will just go on and on. I came here a couple years ago and recorded the relaxation music album Melodìa de Luna
But of course it doesn't go on and on- Summer has come, and so has my shipment of new CDs-  Golden Waves! Now I'm hanging out with some good friends here in Denver and making the final preparations for the 2013 summer tour that will go through Iceland, Denmark, Germany, Check Republic, Austria and a couple more groovy places.
With a fantastic new sound system that's a wee bit more powerful (it's been increased from 50 watts to 500 watts), with this new album Golden Waves and with this amazing crazy touch guitar from Cali I'm about to step onto a plane, and into the journey! I can't wait to see your beautiful faces :)