We’d like to thank everyone who made our tour to “O’ahu a success and will be sharing pictures and stories in the upcoming weeks. It was really great to be embraced by the community here and experience the “ALOHA SPIRIT”. If you liked what you heard let us know, we’d love to hear from you. Let the venues know as well because we’d love to come back.

It was a whirlwind tour for us. We performed 4 shows in 48 hours and loved every minute of it. The kickoff show was at the rRed Elephant in Chinatown www.rredelephant.com on Friday. This gave us a chance to meet some of the folks who helped us along the way. And I do believe there is no finer cup of joe on the island than at the rRed Elephant.

On Saturday with the help of square dance caller Darrow Hand we got the wedding reception of Christie Lutz and Matthew Vander Naald going with an old school hoe-down. Though there was a bit of rain nothing could dampen the spirits at this party.

After that we packed the band into a mini-van and drove off to Hawai’i Public Radio KIPO 89.3 to play on “The Blues Hang” with Jon Alan from midnight to 2AM www.hawaiipublicradio.org Even though it was like playing from 4-6 in the morning for us we had a great time picking, talking, and sharing stories with his audience.

The weekends playing concluded with a Sunday afternoon concert at Ward Rafters. In addition to being a great independant music venue this off the beaten path location has a world class view that is fantastic. It was like a mini Ravinia house concert with folks showing up, wine and picnic baskets in hand, ready to hear some great music. Judging from the crowd response they were not disapointed.

If you enjoyed our shows and would like to hear more roots musicians like Tangleweed or are planning to visit O’ahu contact the places we played and I’m sure they will not dissapoint. We’d like to thank Lawson Cannon, and Bob Schornstheimer for being generous with their time and equipment during the trip.

We’d also like to thank Caroline Wright  www.bluegrasshawaii.com and John Stallings at www.alohagroove.com for helping us get connected on the island.  And a very big thank-you to everyone who came out to listen.  Our music would be nothing without you.
Aloha,

Paul, Scott, Kip, Billy and Ryan