Hi Folks, don’t you like it when it all works out? I’m talking about a wonderful show in Temecula last week with Kevyn in which the music fully lifted off and we were able to mine some aural magic. Next, the traffic out there and back cooperated plus my new night-time driving prescription glasses illuminated the freeway signs beautifully. Follow this with a creative bohemia sesh in Encinitas at the Roxy with Leo plus dinner was on the house. Big portions, exotica vegitarrania and yet again, no traffic to bog the flow. The list of good things continues as the weather decides to go summer on us and luckily I’ve got a few holes in the studio schedule that allow some ocean freedom and small wave balancing acts. That brings us to now and dig this — the heating and air man just completed installing a real forced air heater in our house. We’ve been freezing for the last bunch of years, heck, really ever since we moved in here 12 years ago. The old heater came with the house and it was a legend Model Z that relied on gravity of all things, to lift up the warmth to our living room and kitchen. It didn’t work well and cost a fortune to operate plus the whole rest of the house was without heat. So we started this move towards a heater months ago and wouldn’t you know it that today, the second hottest day of the season plus we’re heading towards the mega warmth the summer, is when we finally get heat. I might be sounding like I’m complaining but I’m stoked — it’s all working out…

Leonard and Peter at Portugalia a few years back.

For this week I’m happy to hook it up on Thursday night for a concert with Leonard in the Mission Valley area of San Diego. Check out the details and fall by if you can for some of our best.

On Saturday it’ll be me and the solo guitar angle hanging at the Roxy in Encinitas. Hope to see you there.

Annette Rico's new CD.

And last up, just a quick announcement about the release of vocalist and violinist Annette Rico and her band’s new CD “Blackbirds Fly”. They recorded this project at my studio over the last couple of months and we had a bunch of fun. Her music reminds me of Norah Jones — folk-like with some jazz influence in there too. Nice stuff. She’s got guitarist Armand Frigon in with her on the song writing and the whole project is pretty much their original tunes. Click here to zip to her website and from there you can have a listen and learn more. Congratulations Annette and Armand for some cool music.

That’s the word for today. Hanging ten, P
 
Thursday April 23, 2009   Peter Sprague &
Leonard Patton
PianoSd.com
1233 Camino Del Rio South
San Diego, CA 92108
(619) 298-5313
Peter Sprague — guitar
Leonard Patton — vocals
  7:30 PM   Playing at a new spot in Mission Valley...

Saturday April 25, 2009   Peter Sprague Plays Solo  
The Roxy Restaurant
517 S. Coast Highway 101
Encinitas, CA
760-436-5001
Peter Sprague — guitar
  7 PM   I'll play 2 sets of solo guitar music at this classic North County hangout. Bohemia reigns!

Thursday April 30, 2009   Peter Sprague Plays Solo  
The Roxy Restaurant
517 S. Coast Highway 101
Encinitas, CA
760-436-5001
Peter Sprague — guitar
  7 PM   I'll play 2 sets of solo guitar music at this classic North County hangout. Bohemia reigns!

Friday May 1, 2009   Gunnar Biggs
CD Release Concert
 
New Village Arts Theatre
2787 State St
Carlsbad, CA 92008
(760) 729-8747
Gunnar Biggs — bass
Peter Sprague — guitar
David Borgo — sax and flute
Duncan Moore — drums
John Opferkuch — piano
Lisa Hightower — vocals
  7:30 PM   Gunnar has made a new CD and we're celebrating and playing the music from recording. Fantastic and many congratulations from the guardian of the low end.

May 10 — May 15, 2009   Peter Sprague and
Bob Magnusson
In Cabo
 
Havanas Supper Club
KM29 Costa Azul
Los Cabos, B.C.S
Mexico
details
Peter Sprague — guitar
Bob Magnusson — bass
  7:30 PM   We're heading south and looking for some warm ocean, good waves, and great music. This is a great jazz club at the bottom of the Baja pennisula.

Thursday May 21, 2009   Peter Sprague Plays Solo  
The Roxy Restaurant
517 S. Coast Highway 101
Encinitas, CA
760-436-5001
Peter Sprague — guitar
  7 PM   I'll play 2 sets of solo guitar music at this classic North County hangout. Bohemia reigns!

Thursday May 28, 2009   Peter Sprague Plays Solo  
The Roxy Restaurant
517 S. Coast Highway 101
Encinitas, CA
760-436-5001
Peter Sprague — guitar
  7 PM   I'll play 2 sets of solo guitar music at this classic North County hangout. Bohemia reigns!

Saturday May 30, 2009 Peter Sprague In Concert House Concert in Cardiff
Home of John and Kim St. Claire
1839 Freda Lane
Cardiff by the Sea, 92007
Peter Sprague — guitar
7 PM Lining up another concert in Cardiff.

Sunday May 31, 2009   Peter Sprague Group
Plays Pat Metheny
 
Anthology
1337 India St.
San Diego, CA
619-595-0300
Peter Sprague — guitar
Josh Nelson — piano
Tripp Sprague — sax and flute
Gunnar Biggs — bass
Duncan Moore — drums
Leonard Patton — vocals
  8 PM   We're stoked to be playing some of Pat's classic compositions, rearranged for our group for a night of all Pat Metheny.

Monday June 1, 2009   Jennifer Lee
with Peter Sprague
 
Yoshi's
510 Embarcadero W.
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 238-9200
details
Jennifer Lee — vocals, guitar
Peter Sprague — guitar
David Udolf - piano
Buca Necak - bass
Raul Ramirez - percussion
  7 PM   I'm heading up to SF to play a show at Yoshi's w/ Jennifer Lee and her group celebrating her new recording "Quiet Joy".

Thursday June 4, 2009   Peter Sprague Plays Solo  
The Roxy Restaurant
517 S. Coast Highway 101
Encinitas, CA
760-436-5001
Peter Sprague — guitar
  7 PM   I'll play 2 sets of solo guitar music at this classic North County hangout. Bohemia reigns!

Saturday June 6, 2009   Peter Sprague
and Tripp Sprague
 
Encinitas Wine Festival
Quail Botanical Gardens
Encinitas, CA
details
Peter Sprague — guitar
Tripp Sprague — sax and flute
  5 PM   I'm not really into wine but it's always cool to play music and hang out in the beautiful garden setup at Quail Gardens.

Tuesday June 9, 2009   Peter Sprague Trio  
Spazio
Los Angeles
details
Peter Sprague — guitar
  7 PM   Land of LA with guitarist John Pisano...

Thursday June 11, 2009   Tokeli  
Anthology
1337 India St.
San Diego, CA
619-595-0300
Tokeli — vocals
Peter Sprague — guitar
Steve Haney —percussion
Leonard Patton — vocals
  7:30 PM   Vocalist Tokeli is leading this group and our lean will be towards the beauty of the Brazilian samba.

Thursday June 18, 2009   Peter Sprague Plays Solo  
The Roxy Restaurant
517 S. Coast Highway 101
Encinitas, CA
760-436-5001
Peter Sprague — guitar
  7 PM   I'll play 2 sets of solo guitar music at this classic North County hangout. Bohemia reigns!

Friday June 19, 2009   Peter Sprague String Consort  

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323-857-6000
details

Peter Sprague — guitar
Bridget Dolkas — violin
Jeanne Skrocki — violin
Pam Jacobsen — viola
Carter Dewberry — cello
Duncan Moore — drums
Bob Magnusson — bass
  7 PM   Heading north for some great music at LACMA.

Saturday June 20, 2009   Peter Sprague and
Fred Benedetti
 

Not sure of the details yet but I'll let you know...

Peter Sprague — guitar
Fred Benedetti — guitar
  7 PM  

June 22 - 26th, 2000   UCSD Jazz Camp  
On the UCSD Campus
858-964-1052
jazzcamp@ucsd.edu
details
Peter Sprague — guitar
a bunch of other great musicians.
  all week   I taught at this camp the last couple of years and had a lot of fun with the students and the other teachers. Check it out and maybe it'll be the right fit for kids and grownups alike...

 

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