We're planning a Spring 2008 trip to Europe, and would like musical, and other, suggestions. The backbone of the trip will be the Big 3...London, Paris, Rome, with time for side trips and some flexibility. At some point I'll be selling a couple of accordions to help fund this, but with the way prices are going, I may wait a while for that.
Any thoughts or experiences would be welcome. Feel free to respond to my email address if you don't want to use up too much of Joannie's bandwidth.
you should bring an accordion to Europe, and sell it here. You might get better prices and help one of the cajun player here. You got plenty of time to arrange it. If you come to the Netherlands, we could organise a jam too.....
We have a couple of cajun jams a month here in London - sometimes three in one month.
Firstly we play at a great old pub near London Bridge called The George - every third monday of the month except December.
We also jam at Cecil Sharp House in Camden, north London - 1st Friday of the month - major cajun bands in the main hall and us 'would-be' cajun musicians playing in the bar.
Also just started a Sunday afternoon jam in a pub in North London - not sure how this will progress, but put the above in your diary and look forward to seeing you then.
I've been too busy to stop by this board and I've been missing it. Chuck, I'll be living in Paris as of January 2008, running "Cajun Fridays" out of a restaurant there--cooking class, dinner, and dance with live music. I've got some other ideas, too. E-mail me personally before you head off on your trip and I'll invite you out to something fun!