A long way to Lilongwe..
Today we held a workshop with a group of young Malowi musicians. We had a great discussion and heard about their problems developing a music scene here and told them About Austin's success as a music center. We gave them a lot of practical advice and charged them with organizing an association and actually got our State Department to agree to help. We also met the head of their local government tonight and gave him Austin's key to the city! (the Austin City Council made us goodwill ambassadors and gave us several keys to the city to get the right folks...) The best thing about the workshop was we all got to play music together at the end; beautiful African traditional songs that raggae, blues, rock and hip hop artists all sang...wait til you see the video!
Tonight we played a "house concert" for US Ambassador Bodee. A lot of cool folks including musicians, poets, foreign diplomats, music lovers all, were there. Tomorrow morning we catch a 7AM flight for Lestho and more fun. (And that what Richard and have been having loads of. In spite of the hard travelin and somwhat grueling schedule, it comes down to having a lot of fun and playing music, music, music!) Thanks for all your good wishes...ONWARD! To be continued...Sent from Bob's iPhone
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