To read the beginning of our WINTER TOUR, please click HERE

We arrived in a blizzard and went non stop from the moment we landed…
We stayed with our great friend, Mark Ettinger, a fabulous musician and member of the Flying Karamozov Brothers…He offered us his small, yet artsy apartment which we graciously inhabited as the Vagabonds we are..we stayed up night after night playing jazz till 5am–a NY tradition we have finally accomplished!

We began the day with lunch at a local French restaurant, where we settled into a weekend of NY’s finest fare…tres Bien!

Then at night, we did an interview on WBAI on Liquid Sound Lounge, a 15 year running eclectic show that is perfect for us.

The boys in the studio:

Later that night, we played at Barbes, a uber cool venue in the heart of Brooklyn. Red lights, two European owners and a calendar of music that is top notch. This place has been called “The Amnesia of the east Coast” which it is. Amnesia is one of our fav spots to play. The show was a blast, standing room only super packed closet of a room, with intimate vibe and incredibly friendly and artsy crowd. We got drunk. We danced. We met Brooklyn.

The next day we ousted ourselves from slumber and made our way to the Arts Presenters Conference, where we “showcased” with other artists from all over the world. we met lots of cool people, including musicians from Romania, Hungary, Mexico, Argentina, Mali and more…quite the sceney scene. Eric made friends with the accordion player from Les Yeux Noirs and is now turning into tbe Balkan Ornament king…look out world…

On Tues, we made our way to our show downtown on the subway…merryness was had by all, as Skip regailed us on the Subway with a song…

And here is Eric, watching the fun!

The unexpected tragedy of NYC….

Well, after we got off the subway, we went to the Zipper Factory, our big gig of the weekend, and were faced with unexpected circumstances. We walked in and were told promptly to leave and that the fire marshal had closed the building due to an inspection! The whole cast and crew were out on the sidewalk, standing in confusion. We stayed there with our friends Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys, who had come to do the show with us…we waited and the building MGR apologized and said that the venue was closed and they were sorry. In 6 years of music business, this is a first so we are happy that it took this long for something like this to happen! We sang songs on the street and drownded our sorrows and moved on as best we could.

So, an ENORMOUS apology to all our loving fans who braved the storm to come see us in NYC, after a year absence. This turn of events was not in our hands and we will come back with bells a ringing soon enough.

The next day, we went to New Jersey and played in the Weehawken Performing Arts series, then caught our plane to GREECE that night….read on for the next chapter…