Concert in Thief River Falls, Minnesota!

Fun show in Thief River Falls, Minnesota! An 8-years-old girl drew a picture for us! I will so put it on the fridge!

Intermission!

Intermission of the concert in Thief River Falls in Minnesota!

Jam session!

We safely arrived to the hotel in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, and are jamming away at the room! Me on harmonica, Jakub on guitar & vocal, and Slava on vocal! The song is "Country Road!"

Day 6 of the tour

Good morning. The temperature now is 3F (-16C). I was't aware of how cold it really was till I got out of the hotel. It looked cold outside but I thought I should have been okay in a T-shirts for a short period of time while I was picking up some stuff from the van. I regretted after one step I got out of the door. I went to the van anyway, couldn’t find the stuff I was looking for for ten minutes, came back into the hotel totally shivering and my head hurts and my eyes were popping out, then checked out the temperature on my iPhone. I took this photo to prove that I can smile in any kind of situation. I'm a professional.

When I was a kid, my body was a bit on delicate side, but after years of tormenting my own body with this kind of stupid things, I became strong. Ha-ha-ha.

Day 6 of the tour. We don’t have a concert today and today is just a moving day for us. We will drive 320 miles (515km) north, then check in at the hotel, and I’ll do all the laundry and ironing. Life of traveling musician continues.

Martin Luther College in New Ulm, Minnesota!

The concert tonight was at Martin Luther College in New Ulm, Minnesota! We loved the concert hall and all including their cafeteria!

Concert at Business, Arts & Recreation Center (BERC) in Windom, Minnesota!

We played the second show of the Midwest tour last night! Great audience and great venue at Business, Arts & Recreation Center (BERC) in Windom, Minnesota!

Day 4 of 28

Good morning.

Day 4. We are in a hotel in Jackson, Minnesota. We had a matinee concert yesterday and drove right after the show for 5 hours. We caught a little bit of Oscar on the way at a Vietnamese restaurant in Des Moines. Congrats to DiCaprio whom all three of us were rooting for, and I was secretly rooting for Mad Max and am glad that it won lots of awards!

We usually drive to the next concert in the day and perform at night, but since the one on yesterday was matinee and we've done the painful driving already, we have lots of time to relax today. I'm chilling at the poolside and the boys are still sleeping. Life is good. Ha-ha.

We will be playing in Windom, Minnesota tonight. On this tour, we will be playing nine concerts out of 20 in Minnesota, and this is the first of the Minnesota circuit. We love Minnesota!

BTW, Windom is a relatively small town with 4,600 people but this is where Maria Schneider is hailing from! She is a very famous jazz composer and she is a genius. When I was a jazz composition students at a music college, I studied and analyzed her works a lot. I’m so glad she won two Grammys this year!

Day 3 --- The first show in Newton, Iowa!

We played our first show in Newton, Iowa. That was a good kick-off of the Midwest Tour 2016!

Before the first show

We are in Newton, Iowa and about to hit the first note of our Midwest Tour 2016. 800-seater today.

We will rock the house.

Day 2 --- from Pittsburg to Iowa City

Day 2. We are in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and are heading to Iowa City! The City of Literature! Yippie! Well, we are only passing by there though. Bummer. Someday we will play at University of Iowa.

Nine-hour drive ahead of us. I'm wearing my brand-new beanie and shades. I cannot hit the street if I'm not dressed right! I'm traveling in style. I'm glad we are on the road again, back to abnormal, and we are in the groove!

Have a great weekend, everyone!