A very good friend bought us tickets to the first show of the 2020 tour.
On July 10, 2020 Arlo will be 73 years old. He lives almost directly across the state at Sebastian.
With about two weeks or so left to go before we hit the road, we're
gearing up for the shows planned for 2020. The first segment begins in
Clearwater, FL at The Capitol Theater, and moves up the east coast
through Charlotte, Durham and Walhalla. The second segment rolls through
Hopewell, Alexandria, Waynesboro, Atlanta and Pelham. Detailed info is
elsewhere on this site.
All the upcoming shows have Folk Uke as
the opening act — The dynamic duo of my daughter, Cathy, and her singing
partner, Amy Nelson (yes, Willie's daughter), is incredibly funny and
talented. We'll try out different ways to include them in the gigs, but
at least in the beginning we'll throw them onstage at the start of the
evening and see what happens. I'll have my son, Abe, and our long time
drummer, Terry A La Berry, with me onstage for these gigs.
We'll
head farther west playing in St. Louis and Fayetteville before
returning to Florida to begin some kind of 60s band cruise I got talked
into doing. It should be a riot. I'm looking forward to hanging out with
some of my peers and veteran 60s entertainers. For that segment at sea
we'll bring back Steve and Carol Ide, who've been most recently touring
with me for the last few years.
The gigs with Folk Uke will
resume after that taking us to the west coast for shows in Santa
Barbara, Solana Beach, Aliso Viejo, San Francisco, Grass Valley,
Livermore and Davis. Folk Uke finishes up their stint with me with gigs
in Boulder, and Santa Fe. Everyone goes home after that while I finish
up May 2020 with a show in Tulsa, OK with the Tulsa Symphony.
Then
we head into summer time... It's nothing like summer here in Florida
this morning. It was 38 degrees with a strong breeze blowing across the
water. That would be cold at home in Massachusetts, but here in Florida
it's ridiculous. Naturally it didn't stop me from going out in a light
aloha shirt for my usual morning pix. But I didn't last very long out
there. They say it'll warm up today. That'd be nice.
