Puzzle Pieces

The parts are starting to take shape into something of a more tangible plan. This week we felt the universe give its blessing for this tour. First of all my brother Dre called to tell me he would join us on the first half of the journey, through California and out to Austin for SXSW. That was great news, but later on that night he called with another well timed coincidence - his friend happened to be driving across country to visit his older brother in CA during the same time Dre would need to get out here. So now Dre has an adventure ride out here, to join up on our adventure leaving from Portland.
It is going to be an adventure. We have teamed up with our good friend Michael Cantino, who creates music under the name Orange Jam, to tour from Portland to San Francisco, with stops planned in Eugene and Eureka along the way. He plays a soulful garage blues that you can feel when he lets it out, which will be a fine complement to the soulful empowerment raps that Dre and I will come with later on in the night. We are looking to find artists that want to play with us, to turn these nights into 2-part shows, starting with the acoustic garage music and ending up as a hip hop dance party. That way we can get people of different scenes to mix up, as well as give people who love good music a night full of it. We are planning on doing this night at small venues, including house shows and gallery spaces, and doing our best to get in touch with as many cool people as we can.
As well as getting a better idea of how the music is going down, Thrashley found a great resource of legal walls for street art across the country, so we have started to include those spots on our itinerary. She will be doing life scale stencil and wheatpaste art that deals with themes of life, love, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, in all the different forms and meanings those take.
This week also brought us the message from our good friend Dizzy, who is heading from Salt Lake city to Austin for SXSW, and I am pretty sure that we will be there with him for the whole ride.


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So, Portland, to Eugene, To Eureka, To San Francisco, To Salt Lake, To Flagstaff, To Albequerque, To Austin? Sounds like a pretty awesome time!