Seminole Music Fest - Great Success

On Sept 25th the band took the stage at the 13th Annual Music in Park Series i

n front of 1000 + fans for a great show. Here’s a quote from one of the producers of the show.

“Saint Tone performed magically getting the audience involved.

His rendition of “In the Air Tonight” may be one of

the single best musical performances in Music in the Park history! “

The International Balloon Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico

We flew in on Thur Oct 1st after a crazy lighting storm in Dallas. Played a show on Fri at Misty’s Hideaway, and then Sat at Burt’s Tiki bar across from the University of New Mexico. Saturday night we hung out downtown and then hit the local Casino Santa Anna..

A HUGE THANK YOU goes out to www.mannarelief.org for their Sponsorship and to Brad from Road Runner Auto for hooking us up with a van to drive around town.

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Sunday morning we did an interview with Ch7 KOAT News NBC to promote the show at the Balloon Festival at night.

Took a trip up the Sandia Peak Mountain; and had a Great performance at night at the Balloon Festival.

We had the pleasure of spending a few nights at Rick Derringer’s beautiful house up in the hills of Albuquerque. He and his wife Jenda were both very nice to hang with.

Rick showed us a few of his new custom guitars along with all of his Gold Records on the walls.

He has been nominated to the Vintage Guitar Hall of Fame. If you would like to vote for Rick; follow the link.

http://vintageguitar.com/features/halloffame/

We flew into Chicago; played 4 great shows in 4 days and flew out.

On Mon July 20th the band took the stage at Buddy Guy's Legends Club where we Rocked the bar

playing to a packed house with Buddy Guy himself  in the audience. Legends has been around for over 20 years.

Tue July 21st, we took in the city staying at The Hilton Chicago Hotel  

 located on the "Cultural Michigan Avenue Mile" overlooking Grant Park, Lake Michigan, and Museum Campus.

We had lunch at the Billy Goat Tavern where Saturday Night Live was inspired to write it's famous

Cheezborger skit with John Belushi. Yes; we had cheeseburgers.

Wed July 22nd,  we went to the Crystal Garden Atrium located at the Navy Pier for a short set before boarding

the Spirit of Chicago cruise where we rocked the boat as she sailed into the sunset.

Thur July 23rd, we were off to The Chicago Convention Center where we performed for

The ASI International Convention. It was a great party.

Drove to the air port as we watched President Obama drive by along with 20 police cars and Secret Service.

Hopped on a plane that night and we were back home to Tampa by 12 midnight. A good time had by All!!

Road to History

We just got back from a 4 day trip to Washington DC were the band played at

The Smithsonian Art Museum for The Lincoln 2.0 Inaugural Ball 

on Jan 18th, 2009. Riding up and back in an RV we got to know each other real quick

as the tempuratues dropped down into the teens. A special THANK YOU to: Janie Tevere who spent days upon days on the phones working on all the details to get the band into the gig and keeping us there; to Rick our driver who drove 17 hours non stop up and then back and kept the RV on the road after an 18 wheeler pushed us into a jersey barrier ripping off the front end of the RV.Great Driving ; to Mick Weick our soundman who walked in and took controll of running our monitors and the front of the house even after Anita Baker took away our sound check we still sounded better than any other band that night. Now we know why he works for Tim McGraw.

Among the performers that night were

Antia Baker, JT Taylor from Kool and the Gang, Keb Mo, and John Cruz.  

We had a great time being part of history!!

We just got back from 2 great shows in Albuquerque, New Mexico

for the International Hot Air Balloon Festival.

We met a ton of great people and have been invited back to perform next year.

Below are some photos of the Ballons and some TV interviews we did.

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