hi jeremiah,

i never got to follow up with you after TFF. i learned yet another very valuable performance lesson. over extension. every opportunity presented to me sounded great and it was hard not to participate in them all. but it was also hard TO participate in them all. especially all the rehearsals and such.

so instead of having one or 2 solid performances, i was part of 4 acts at that event, and i feel i wasn't able to give each of them my 100%. i know i pulled it off, but i could tell that i wasn't all there for each one, and therefore had to over exert and play harder than neccesary. (which we all know rarely equates to really good playing)

but hey, to have the opportunity in there to play "circle" for you live was worth it. (and i only goofed that up once in the beginning playing the 11/8 bridge instead of the 6/8- but the dancers werent' phased a bit and we recovered w/out crash and burnin)

the last act- africarabian was my brainchild as i couldn';t resist encouraging the african dancers and bellydancers have some sort of 'you got served' dance-off. i really hope you got to catch that act, because it probably won;t happen again- too many dancer egos at a stressful time of us closing our dance studio here meant that the whole thing almost got siderailed.

but they're all pro's and we all put our best faces forward to put on a pretty unique set.

But next time for me, definitley not gonna stretch myself too thin. lesson learned

(here's the perfect example- watching the africarabian set after on video, at one of the call in's for our next rhythm, i gave FIVE tek's instead of 4. FIVE! what is that? and i didn't even know it until i saw it in the video! it's easy to laugh now)

take care and we'll see you soon!
ps- you guys gonna be at either rakassah or cairo caravan?

cheers,
keeth