Silence is an Option!

Hola Good People, coming to you via the endless summer of 2014. I’m having a wonderful time balancing long studio hours with these priceless beach jaunts to catch waves and to float face up in the warm blue water looking up at the vibrant blue sky. Blue everywhere! It’s the best color too I think.

This is the kind of blue I'm talking about!

This is the kind of blue I’m talking about!

We had a good gig last week with Leonard Patton at Northern Spirits playing Leonard’s new songs. It was a nice turnout and folks seemed to enjoy the sonic mix. Play on Leonard!

The scene at Northern Spirits with Bobby Cressey on piano, Leonard on vocals, and Peter on guitar.  photo by Rick Sokol

The scene at Northern Spirits with Bobby Cressey on piano, Leonard on vocals, and Peter on guitar.
photo by Rick Sokol

I have a fellow from Japan named Nobuo who is here at SpragueLand for two weeks recording a new CD. He’s into Brazillian music and composes his own music set in the bossa nova style. He sings in Japanese and it’s a wild combo! Think Joao Gilberto meets lost in translation!

On tap for this week, first off on tomorrow night we’re playing a trio hit at the 3rd Space Gallery in San Diego. It’s Ben Wanicur on bass along with Duncan on drums. We’ve got a cool set planned and it’s a spot where music is the main thing. We always love this kind of setup!

On Wednesday night I’m playing a solo concert at the Pacific Beach Library. It’s one of my favorite spaces to play and one of the highlights is that SILENCE is an option. A lot of times this isn’t so as there’s background noise hogging up the bandwidth. There’s magic in the air when you can play that note and let it hang forever. I’ll be doing that in PB and come on out to let a little more silence creep into your life.

Silence was an option at the Carlsbad Music Festival and I took full advantage of it.

Silence was an option at the Carlsbad Music Festival and here I am filling the space. Slow down young man!

On Thursday night I’ll be at the Roxy playing solo and last week the roof almost blew off. There we’re a zillion folks in for the music and SILENCE was not an option. It was more about the friendship and the hang and the great food. Music too but I got buried a little. Hoping for an upgrade this week and I’m always game. See you there!

On Sunday morning guitarist Fred Benedetti and I play a spirited set of music as part of the Little Italy Festa taking place in downtown San Diego. We’ve done it before and they’ve got great sound and staging and music going all day. It’ll be fun and Fred is always the MAN on guitar!

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Last up, curling into next week, it’ll be Fred, Tripp and me with our Blurring the Edges group throwing down the sonic palette at Grossmont College on Monday night. It’s always a good day making music with these guys and the setup there is tre’ bien as well. Hope to see you there!

Peter Sprague and Fred Benedetti

Peter Sprague and Fred Benedetti

That’s it for now and I’m heading back into the control room to tweak the samba tracks to perfection. Thanks for reading and hope to see you out there soon, Peter