European Tour
Summer 2016, In the summer of 2016 I did a walk about with my oldest son Jason. Our mission was to seek out music festivals in Scandinavia. We started in Denmark, went to our first Jazz festival in Pori, Finland, and our second in Molde, Norway, finally heading to Scotland for nine days in Edinburgh to include a drive in the highlands. Prior to the trip I made it a mission to write a book, draw every minute of the day, write 20 songs, and loose 10 pounds. Here is that book, it has a few poems and lots of drawings. I never did loose the 10 pounds. At each location Jason had a local person meet us to take us around. In this way we were able to make a deep dive into the culture and form lifelong friendships. My hat is off to the family of Marie Pendersen, in Denmark, and Chris Ma, from the UK, Tommi from Finland, Anne-Marie and her husband Sivert and Sivert’s cousins friends Erik and Steffen, John Tanney, who is a native of Scotland, we flew him in spe-
cial for the adventure. with special guest star, George Tandy, from the USA. Stephen Shooster
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