On The Road Again (PDQ)

Pretty much says it all...

We're a week away from getting on a plane to NYC for Seraphic Fire's first domestic tour, and I gotta say, I'm pretty excited. All the members of Seraphic Fire, including myself, travel pretty extensively as performers, but this will be the first time we travel outside of Florida as a group. Manhattan debut on April 4th on St. Bartholomew's Great Music Series? Totally incredible!

The scary part is not the music or the performing--its the actual travel itself. It is one thing to get a group of musicians from Miami to Ft. Lauderdale. It is another thing entirely to get them from Miami to Syracuse, NY, by way of Manhattan and New Haven, CT. Think herding cats....

The music that we're taking on tour is one of my favorite programs: "Sway: Music of Miami!" Many of y'all were at the premieres of these works: Ingram Marshall's magnificent Hymnodic Delays, Alvaro Bermudez's sultry Padre Nuestro, and Sydney Guillaume's Dominus Vobiscum. That, and the Argentine composer Ariel Ramirez's Misa Criolla. Cool COOL music, and music that I really think defines the ensemble.

We're going to be giving a preview of our tour program this coming Thursday, April 3rd, at 8:00 p.m. at Corpus Christi Church in Allapatah. Tickets are only $10, so it would be really cool to have a big crowd to cheer us on to our Big Apple debut. There are details at Seraphicfire.org.

I'll be posting as much as possible while on tour, so check in periodically. Wish us luck!