the California Trip - Part IV - The Show

Hey Folks,

The show at Bocci’s Cellar for the Ukulele Club of Santa Cruz was like a dream.

I’d heard so much about the club from Andy, the club’s emails, stories on NPR, and from other ukesters that I’d get high from thinking about it, anticipating performing for such an open, interested, and caring crowd.

I wasn’t disappointed.

Almost as soon as I walked into the room, Roger – one of the Hawaiian owners of this Itaqlian restaurant – took me under his wing. He decided that I needed a better shirt; so he had me put on one of his Pierre Cardin Hawaiian shirts and take off my J.C. Penny almost-Hawaiian shirt. And he said, “Keep it.”

Besides Roger, there were many nice folks I talked with as the evening moved toward its official beginning. Everybody was very friendly and there certainly were plenty of ukulele-related things to talk about.