Friends, I’ve made it back in one piece with a zillion stories of airports and security checks, of jazz festivals and heroes spinning songs in the late afternoon San Sebastian sunset, of the speed that you can unload Euros in Paris, and of the weird life balance of the road — nine tenths of the day is dealing with fairly lame travel details and it’s all for the glory of that one tenth, the gig at the end of the struggle. And we kept coming back for more ‘cuz Dianne Reeves can sing! Big fun and so much so that we’ll be returning in November for more insanity. Is your Passport ready?

For this week in the beautiful San Diego August warmth we’re kick starting the Summer of Library concerts. We’ll play in Julian on Saturday afternoon, in Encinitas on Saturday evening and then in Vista on Sunday. The Encinitas gig is with the full band featuring Lisa Hightower on vocals and it’ll be cool connecting with her again. The other gigs are with the power surf trio of Tripp, Gunnar and myself and we’re even sneaking in a surf before our rehearsal this week. Gotta do it! Look below for the details and the fine print.

On Sunday evening I’m in the loop with vocalist Allison Adams Tucker and her band celebrating the emergence of her new recording “Come With Me”. We recorded this album earlier in the year here at SpragueLand and had a great time with the process. Allison has a beautiful voice and also sings in a few different languages. It’ll be a wonderful night of music and it’s all happening at Dizzy’s in downtown San Diego. I hope to see you there.

That’s it for now. You might look ahead on my schedule to see the other places we’ll be playing in August and September. It’s a good time to be making music…

adios, Peter