Band playing at Cafe Zorba, Paris

Vienna Songbird Fesitval

There are some great photos from the Vienna Songbird Festival online. Go to:

http://www.festivalwelt.de/

And click on Fotogalerien at the top. Then click on the

Blue Bird	234 Fotos - Eva

link.

Europe, Part Deux

Here's the next set of pictures from Europe. There are obviously many more but I have to pick and choose what to post. Nothing too emarrasing here! Anyway, these should be in chronological order now. There will hopefully be at least one more post for the last week of the tour.

Well we missed our flight from Lisbon to Berlin because our car got locked in a parking garage. Oops. So we ended up driving back to Porto the next day after no sleep, staying there over night and then flying direct to Frankfurt to wait for our van to arrive from Berlin. By 5 o'clock it began snowing and we were going a little stir crazy.

The Porgy & Bess club in Vienna is very posh. It was sold out however and we played very well. I even think the Austrian public television station was there recording. Who knows, maybe we'll get big in Austria?

The show in Innsbruck was fun. We were worried that no one would show up because the promoter was having trouble finding a backline and when we got there, not one person was there. However, by showtime the club was filled with fun-loving Austrians dancing to Barbez and gypsy music spun by a DJ. This picture is taken from the back porch of where we spent the night. It's an OK view I suppose.

Turino was a nice city. Bigger and more industrial than some of the cities that we played in but still a good experience. The ladies especially liked the shoe shopping.

The Shoto club in Izola was a great place to eat. They fed us a home cooked meal, a lot of people came out, yelled and screamed and then fed us home made schnapps.

Izola, Slovenia is a gorgeous port town on the Adriatic Sea. On clear days you can see Venice from the tops of the hills.

Ljubjana, Slovenia is beautiful. There's a castle on top of the hill and people are amazing. We played at Channel Zero, an old squat in a complex now run over by students and artists. The hostel we stayed at is an old communist prison.

Yea! Pictures!

So here's the first batch of European pictures. Unfortunately, they are in reverse chronological order, but what can you do? More will hopefully follow...and before I get home. DS

After we missed our London flight, we drove back to Porto.

The Dans like playing music.

Barbez eating dinner with Portugese friends in Lisbon.

A nice, slight shabby, Lisbon building with some Portugese tile work.

Low light pic of Papa D and Pam walking to dinner in Lisbon.

Dan and Pedro, one of the promoters at ZGB in Lisbon, walking to dinner.

Casa de Musica in Porto, designed by Rem Kool-haas.

Papa D and Baby D relax in a bar after a hard day of rehearsal.

A couple of views of Porto, Portugal.