Jeff,

I accidently posted this to the Yahoo [hix] fan club - "Dan Hicks and the
Hot Licks".
Oops, they undoubtedly wondered where/why it was posted!

Bill



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From: Bill S Hughes <Liberty_without_Coercion@...>
To: hix@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:45:40 -0700
Subject: [hix] Re: [taarka] Hello

Jeff,

Since you mentioned Taarka, I'll chime.

I went to Bumbershoot 2002 to see Dan on Saturday afternoon. On Sunday,
I ran into Taarka set up at a crosswalk corner. At that time, the
PHENOMENAL James Whiton (I mean that without exaggeration) was playing
stand up bass with the group. Kind of gypsy folk jazz. David said he &
Enion became tired of playing bluegrass and moved from New York to
Seattle and joined Jarrod Kaplan on percussion. I listened to a couple
songs and then was blown away by James' solo on "Bird Fish Falls", after
which I held up my $15 bucks for the CD they were selling and exclaimed
SOLD! They were sooo good I had to change plans and return to
Bumbershoot on Monday just to hear more of them. Unfortunately, James
left the group and now plays with EMT (Eric McFadden Trio). I'm sure you
heard the group with another bass player.

I introduced Dave Apelt, Mike Zim, and Harry Fulcher to them when Harry
visited the states. Mr. Z was considerably impressed. A couple other
hixters have become acquainted also. I'll email you off line.

Bill Hughes
Liberty Lake, WA
{soon to be Savannah, GA}


On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:46:28 -0000 "a1howler" <wolfdensbeagles@...>
writes:
>
> I was just wanting to know if anyone post to this site anymore? I
> am from San Diego and was lucky enough to make it up to the 2004
> Bumbershoot in Seattle. One of my highlights was getting to stand
> back and listen to this group called Taarka! My wife and I were
> blown away by them! Even though the percussion player was a little
> scarry with the fang thing goin on! Whats up with that? Then Enion
> had like Raybans on and she would look down through them on Sunday
> to reveal the deepest looking eyes! We stood and listened to the for
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> a good forty five minutes! Then the last day they were moving around
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> from spot to spot but we seemed to be able to find them. The last
> day they were by the arcade so there was no sunglasses on Enion
> beautiful eyes! Then David is unbelievable as is the rest of the
> band with their instruments! They are a very polished and
> professional group! You really were one of the true highlights of
> our trip! I will be ordering a copy of Taarka's CD and David and
> Enions duest CD.
> Thanks to this group we have a great memory of a great festival and
>
> trip!
> Thank You very Much Jeff Wolf
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