Performance for a ribbon-cutting

Grace and I warming up at the new Neopac facility for their ribbon cutting ceremony.  The company representative from Switzerland was pleasantly surprised to hear alphorns!

Found this in our Airbnb in Austin, TX.

A fun day of alphorn playing at Meredith College

http://www.chattanooganow.com/news/2013/nov/08/a-sweet-50-yearslittle-debbie-swiss-rolls-marks/Happy 50th birthday to Little Debbie Swiss Rolls!  Played for McKee Foods' celebration in Chattanooga, TN on November 7, 2013 with Gary Bang.  A terrific day and loads of fun.  How about the beautiful Bernese Mountain dog?

Heading to Burlington, NC tonight to play for the Twin Lakes Oktoberfest.

Gerald Pot

I met Gerald Pot, a fine, well-respected, alphorn maker two years ago a the North American Alphorn Retreat (http://www.salzburgerecho.com/seminars.html). He is a terrific fellow from the french-speaking part of Switzerland and he has a radical new design for the alphorn. A four-piece horn. If you have every travelled on a plane with an alphorn you know how clumsy and challenging it can be. The three-piece horn will fit in some overhead compartments (the overhead units with two flip-up doors on one large compartment work great). This four-piece horn will be soooo much easier to travel with. His work is beautiful, too. See Mssr. Pot build his horn at: http://www.alpinehorn.com/en/home.html

Thank you UU of Greensboro

I had such a pleasant evening sharing my limited knowledge and limited talents on the alphorn with the wonderful folks at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greensboro, NC. They have a series of Wednesday night services called "Expressions" exploring the connection of the arts and spirituality. Check them out at: http://www.uugreensboro.org/index.php