Art, Music, and the Boda Bag!

We all enjoyed a entertaining weekend!

It started Saturday at Cafe Vio in Paso Robles. Aymiee had an art showing for her jazz collection at the cafe. The owner of the cafe really liked her work and will be presenting it for a few weeks.

A husband and wife couple, Peter and Deborah Hewitt, from our DAG jam session and I were the live entertainment. They wrote a lot of original material. I did my best to just sit in and play bass and rythmn guitar. One of the songs played was "Black Velvet". I really liked how it came out. Deborah has a really clean and crisp singing voice with a nice swing to it. I really enjoyed playing with them. We will be meeting again to arrange a set for future gigs. I'm really excited about that.

For dinner a big group of us all met at the 10th street cafe in San Miguel (the town homepage has a box about it on the lower right). It's a really cool Basque style restaurant. We all enjoyed a seven course meal family style and made lots of new friends. I brought the guitar and was able to get Vince to sing with me. He's my Portuguese "brother" from Paramount Farms (he and I are the only Portuguese employees at the plant). He's got an awesome voice and can sing Marvin Gaye VERY well. We played "Sexual Healing" and "Let's get it on" for the restaurant and had the whole place dancing and singing! It was a blast!!!

Below are pictures of the evidence ...



Some of Aymiee's Art







A couple shots of the group playing (left to right: arsy, peter, and deborah)







How to enjoy wine, BODA STYLE!!






Vince and I playing Marvin Gaye







Dallas is the owner of the cafe...he dug the group and loved the music!!



(more pics over at aymiee.com: Cafe Vio & 10th Street Cafe)