Tauranga Jazz and Blues Festival

Well, the Tauranga Easter jazz and Blues festival is well and truly over, and it was - as usual - an amazing experience for Brilleaux

I personally really enjoy these festivals, for several reasons. The main one being that there are about 50 live bands in town - one in every pub, bar and restaurant, and to watch them it is completely FREE.

SO, if at ANY stage in the proceedings, people do not like what you are doing, they can quite easily move off to the next bar.

SO, when you are playing to a full house, you get the feeling you are doing something right, and they must like what you are doing, else they wouldnt be there!

And as we played to a full house on both days, - well - say no more.

We did a great trade in CDs, and sold $800 worth, which will all go towards pressing, printing and duplicating the new live album.

We have also sold out of our first album and we are in need of getting a new pressing of those also.

Not to mention half way towards assembling our next Studio album of originals, so you could say its all go for us.

Another of the highlights of these festivals is that you get to catch up with heaps of other musos, and Brilleaux were thrilled to get a visit from Midge Marsden on our Sunday show.

I spotted him in the crowd, and not one to let a chance go by, I called him up on stage and he played on a song with us, which gave the guys a huge buzz. - Thanks Midge.

Special thanks from Graham, Bruce, Beano and Brian to Tim Julian for jamming with us for the weekend, and adding his wicked keyboard skills to our sound - we are very lucky to have such a wicked player on call for these special occasions - we wont want to play without him now!

Thanks heaps Tim.


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