steve schwelling is a wonderful percussionist friend of mine living in austin. he went to a workshop with airto and was pretty pumped about the whole thing. here he discusses relevant points.

The harmonica is ready to play. It requires no accessories or tuning to be at it’s best right out of the box. (The box is important . Always put the harp back in the box after playing and it will be your friend.)

i’ll start off with the usual qualifiers:
a. i could be wrong about the whole thing.
b. if you don’t agree, that’s fine. these are just ideas.

that said, perhaps it would be good for folks to hear some ideas on how to help things run more smoothly when hired to be an opening act.

i had a bit of an epiphany a couple of nights ago, playing with a fairly large ensemble in a rock/country type format.

orville johnson is a friend of mine from seattle. he is a great guitarist singer and songwriter. he was asked to speak at career day at a local middle school. orville was pleasantly surprised by the experience and as he told me about it, we agreed it would be cool to write a little piece about it for folktronics.