I’ll be returning to Rendez-Vous on 15 May, this time for a solo performance. This time, I’ll be playing to the bar crowd, rather than in the restaurant. The owner thinks the bar area will be a better atmosphere for live music, and I tend to agree with him. Everyone at Rendez-Vous seems excited about having live music there, and they have all been extremely pleasant and fun to work with.

The 3 Japanese people taken hostage in Iraq have now been released. I was very pessimistic about their fate, and so their safe release comes as an extremely pleasant surprise. However, 2 more Japanese citizens, journalists, have been abducted, and hostages of other nationalities have been killed.