To Africa and Back…Again!
So, back to Africa I went…again. This is now the 3rd trip in the past 7 months, with 2 left to go! This trip was the expected set of very helpful and important meetings with some really nice people…people of all kinds! The centerpiece of the trip was 5 days in a studio in a small town outside of Cape Town…recording African percussion, high school aged singer, children singers, and adult men singers. It was a real parade…with other things in between as well. There is nothing quite like having real people do real music. It wasn’t all that polished and professional, but very real and wonderful. I wondered many times…”How did I get here…doing this?” My mother certainly never would have imagined that her bribery to get me to practice the piano would lead to places like that! (By the way, she should have bribed me more than she did!) Anyway, the project I’m working on is certainly a once-in-a-lifetime deal. Even with technical difficulties and the like, it is a real rush to be involved in this project. If you’re interested in the conference, the website again is: www.lausanne.org. Check it out, and pray that I can actually get it done! It’s going to be a long summer of writing…lots of isolation!
Jubal, we were playing percussion on clay pots and all kinds of things that YOU probably never even thought about!