Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Tiburon Wine Festival, Blake's on Telegraph
When I was a kid, my brother and I agreed that if we had to choose which way to die by hot heat or super cold that it was fast and hot but being a City Boy who delivered newspapers early in the foggy cold mornings of San Francisco I have my comfort level set at Fog City Cool! I can't stand it when it's hot but "Barn Burner" are the words that came to mind as I made it through the scorching heat of last Thursday and Friday. Checking with our weather watchers Saturday was pegged to be Cooler. I had my Cool San Francisco fingers crossed hoping so!
With longtime friend, John Markland, running around setting the Sound System, Carrie Jahde setting up her Set Drums and Mark Briseno, with his Lovely wife Cindy, setting up his Timbales, the timing was almost syncronized as Keyboardist Al Conde, Bassist Jim Allen pulled up as Diane and I arrived to the Tiburon Wine Festival. My good friend Conguero Paul Sonnabend arrives in excellent time to set up his four Drums and mic system and BAUTISTA is set for the show. The air was crisp and positive and I knew this day was in need of some serious upbeat music.
The view of The City, Angel Island and the Sailboats on Bay was crystal clear, the Sun was on the warm side of perfect and the brightness made for an exciting setting. The downtown intersection of Tiburon was a hustle and bustle of people out on the street and inside the Tiburon Wine Festival and BAUTISTA breaks out into "Easy Life" and plays an hour set. We look at each other and Oh Yeah they like it! Diane and I took 15 minutes to check out the incredible food and wine.
The second set was so hooked up starting with "In my Life" into the Instrumentals of "Sudden Samba" and "Golden Hours" that has a Percussion Groove/Solo part of the tune and this group of every nationality from African-Americans, European-Americans, Asian-Americans, Latin-American all so sophisticated in their Summer clothes and being their Hip stylish selves danced forming a circle in the middle then they took turns dancing in the middle shaking their stuff. It was so much fun! Those BAUTISTA beats bring out the Jungle in all these modern Hipsters!
Next up is an incredible show with the brief return of long time BAUTISTA Keyboardist David Dykstra, joining Bassman Jim Allen and me to power up the BAUTISTA Rythym Section and the BAUTISTA Percussion Section charged with Eric Engstrom on Set Drums, Conguero Paul Sonnabend and Timbalero/Hand Percussionist when we play our first date at Blake's on Telegraph on Friday, May 30. With opener Band Los Valenberg.
So let's make a date to meet at Blake's on Telegraph on Friday, May 30 at 8:30 and make like we're on a South Pacific Island and forget about it!
See you soon!
Norman Bautista
BAUTISTA
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Bautista Goes Wide
t was a mystery of where we were going to play at The Cantina in Mill Valley and it turn out to be one very tight space but the BAUTISTA bandmates always make due, accomodate, fit in and had a great evening with friends and new comers to the BAUTISTA sound. Looks like we'll back once they offically become Maria Maria.
After a night's sleep we had some new tires put on and drove up to Redding for two concert shows with Fern Mountain Productions. The first in the town of Anderson where BAUTISTA Timbales/Hand Percussionist Mark Briseno's family came down from Oregon to join us and the next day, Sunday in the town of Redding for an afternoon concert. Breakfast SUnday morning with band members was very nice. Diane and I were blown away with the large size and large number of Moths flying all around. Never saw anything like that before. From the restaurant we could see snow peak mountains. I don't remember Redding being such a beautiful place.
After a three hour and fifteen minute cruise back home we made it home by 11:15 pm and I was back on the work grind first thing Monday morning. After a very busy day I felt a little of the drain from the weekend, came home, changed my clothes, and we cruised to the Sausalito Yacht Club and played a Cinco de Mayo show, back home to unload and back to the grind Tuesday morning. Hey, now I know I can handle a tour! I know BAUTISTA bandmates would be into it!
Next up we are at the Tiburon Wine Festival on Saturday, May 17 but I heard it was sold out so if you have plans on coming over please check with the Tiburon Chamber of Commerce. BAUTISTA goes on for the duration of the event from 1:00 to 4:00. Then from there we've made plans with Blake's on Telegraph in Berkeley on Friday, May 30 for an evening show. Come check it out. It's very close to the UC Berkeley so we'll show them college goers how we groove!
BAUTISTA has some great shows at great places this year so please check out the BAUTISTA website and join us for a day in the Sun or an evening with the Stars and the Moon to shake off some of the stress of living life in this wonderful place we live in. Come be with BAUTISTA.
See you soon!
Norman Bautista
BAUTISTA
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