Danny; Moscow, 6/27/13 Evening:After our rehearsal my percussion student and friend from Mannes College the New School for Music, met us at our hotel and drove us into the center of Moscow. Andrey gave us a tour of some great and famous cultural locat…

Danny; Moscow, 6/27/13 Yesterday was such and amazing day, packed with great music, friends and sights. We are eight hrs ahead of EST, so we are in the future, can’t wait to tell you what happens, for now I’ll just tell you what’s been happening;) We…

Johnny:  6/27/2013 Moscow

I’m writing this as we fly 30,000 ft above Greenland, about six and a half hours from Moscow. We’ve been on the plane since 4:00 EST and will probably arrive in Russia around 3:00 AM, 11:00 AM Moscow Time. After some ground delays we were able to get…

Danny: Monday 6/24/13 NYC;
It’s hard to believe that in just less than 24 hrs , we will be leaving for Russia on our fourth tour as musical ambassadors for the Dept. of State. We’ve been blessed to have gone to so many countries around the globe, bringing many genres of American music to people that don’t always have access to this type of live music.
We’ve been to South East Asia, the Middle East, back to Malaysia and now Russia.
When I was a small child growing up here in NYC during the 60’s, I could have never imagined that one day I’d be travelling to Russia . The Cold War was all over the news, I was so scared at night that every time a plane flew overhead, I thought it was going to drop the big one. I lived by the airport so I lost a lot of sleep;) I had never met anyone from Russia until I was at Mannes College of Music, a conservatory on NYC’s Upper West side.