I put 12,400 miles on my 1982 Toyota motorhome, at 16.3 miles per gallon. Two months from Grass Valley CA, to the Burning Uke beach festival near Esalen on the California coast, then Alburquerque, Kansas City, Omaha (a tthe Saddlecreek Bar across the street from the house my mother grew up in), Shell Knob MO, Lillian AL, Brevard NC, Rockville MD, East Village NYC, Orleans (Cape Cod) MA, Liverpool Nova Scotia, back to Cape Cod and finishing up with a performance in Greenwich Village NYC where I kept two rock 'n' roll bands from bumping into one another.
The music was fantastic and the musicians even more so. A Flathead reunion with Pat Sauer in Albuquerque, three grand gigs with the Moonshine Babies in Alabama, especially at Pirate's Cove, a fine open air music hall and pub on Perdido Bay. A live performance on community radio WOMR in Provincetown. A marvelous, space odyssey jam with one of my musical mentors, Mike Bothun, in Cape Cod, who later joined with me and Tim Sweeney and Ed Banks in a standing room only show in Orleans on Cape Cod. Four days at the Nova Scotia Ukulele Ceilidh in Liverpool was one continuous jam from Early Thursday evening to early Sunday morning. Sunshine and warm weather, great friends, great music. Performed in three different venues in the town of Liverpool five times, jammed until two in the morning. Wonderful musicians everywhere -- Chalmers Doane, James Hill, the Boulder Acoustic Society, Tim Sweeney, Ed Banks, Manitoba Hall, Li'l Rev, the Ukulele Orchestra of University of Maine, Machias, the Liverpool locals, and many many more all fine musicians and down right fine people. Took a leisurely trip home, taking in parts of the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Natchez Trace, Beale Street in Memphis on a balmy music-punctured night, Canyon de Chelly in Arizona and home. Turned 64 in Liverpool. Opening night I was treated to 200 ukulele players singing "When I'm Sixty-four". Doesn't get better than that. Dan
iUke in the Fall is also the name of the CD that helped defray the costs of the tour.
It's available from me for $15 postpaid by email, by check at 379 Clark St. Grass Valley Ca 95945 USA,
or at iTunes, DigStation and CD Baby.
Dan Scanlan Presents Cool Hand Uke's Lava Tube