2005 Tour To Europe

10/26/2005 - This year started with an international Blues competition in Memphis Tennessee, with Rose City Kings. Now Joe is finishing the year with a second international competition, this time in Germany where he will compete in the World Harmonica Festival. Along the way he will perform in Paris, Serbia, and finally Victoria B.C. Canada, before returning home to Portland. The trip will start in Paris, France where he will perform two concerts as a trio with acclaimed Tango guitarist, Gustavo Gancedo, and Bassist Isabelle Dauzac. The first concert will be part of a larger event called, Mephisto Bal (www.mephisto-bal.com), which will feature the cutting edge sounds of Narcotango, which blends hip-hop dance music with traditional Tango. The second concert will be for the Tuesday practica at La Casa Del Tango (www.lacasadeltango.net). In Germany Joe will compete in 4 catergories. For solo-chromatic he will perform J.S. Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D minor”, unaccompanied. For Jazz chromatic he will perform “Manha De Carnaval”, by Luis Bonfa. For Jazz diatonic he will perform “Don’t get around much anymore”, by Duke Ellington. And for Blues diatonic he will perform “Things ain’t what they used to be” by Mercer Ellington. Joe was recently informed that he is the only American participating in the competition which has entrants from as many as 20 different countries. As a guest to Japanese ambassador, Tadashi Nagai, in Belgrade Serbia, Joe will perform a selection of Classical pieces including, Beethoven’s Adagio from “Sonata Pathetique”, Debussy’s “Reverie”, G. F. Handel’s Siciliana and Allegro from Sonata in F, and the Gordon Jacob Harmonica Suite, among other pieces. When he returns to the U.S. he will spend an evening in Seattle Washington to hear harmonica legend Toots Theilemans at Jazz Alley, before making his way to Victoria Island in British Columbia where he will perform a Tango concert with Conjunto Berretin. Joe is very excited to making his European debut.

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