“In Cuba and specifically in Havana there’s a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected.”Fernando Perez I have been to Cuba three times and plan on going again. I fell in love with Cuba when I first went with my son in 2012. It was like stepping back in time with the […]
Music
Ska Music
“I don’t stand for the black man’s side; I don’t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.” – Bob Marley In the mid-90s, I played keyboards and sometimes sax in a ska band in Vancouver, BC. Our bandleader, Andy, got us gigs at most of the popular clubs of the time […]
Pinetop Perkins
“The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music” Willie Dixon Pinetop Perkins played piano with Muddy Waters after Otis Span left the band. I used to go see him at the Yale, at the time (mid-90s) it was a blues institution on Granville Street. One time, I invited […]