I have been back from my travels now for a couple of weeks and a wealth of feelings, thoughts and aspirations have surfaced. Seattle is home and it is good to be home. The travels in Africa put me in touch with an overwhelming feeling of abundance: creative visions and intentions and also the hesitancies that accompany such visions.

Performing is a powerful experience even when you are less than present during. It offers an immediacy of relief to your creative visions and hesitancies. Yet at the same time one’s creative visions and hesitancies must fuel what one does. Performing in Ethiopia and in Kenya is like performing anywhere else in the world. You always encounter the nuances of the people and the environment. And at its best music has the power to soften and integrate these nuances and stories. My travels have brought about a softness of heart and an edge of clarity about what I wish to embody in life. And with such clarity come the fears and beliefs to be opened, confronted and integrated.

In July, I will be hosting a weekly at Lofi Performance Gallery called The Convergence. The intention of these evenings is to establish a creative environment that showcases collaborative and cohesive work between the wealth of musicians here in Seattle. I am very excited and also nervous about this event. I have a passion about it, though. I want it to be reflective of a truth I believe, live and experience in my life: that the convergence of people with open-hearts can manifest something truly meaningful and inspiring together.

In Love and In Joy,

Evan