We Are Not Alone

You may be interested in where some of your fellow readers are following Rifftides. A recent check of the site meter finds them all over the world, in places including:

▪Mickleover, Derby, United Kingdom
▪Mere, Warrington, United Kingdom
▪Brussels, Belgium
▪Barcelona, Spain
▪Arche, Limousin, Spain
▪Cceres, Extremadura, Spain
▪Mijas, Andalucia, Spain
▪Montreal, Quebec, Canada
▪Hamilton, Bermuda
▪Tokyo, Japan
▪Kuguta, Chiba, Japan
▪Paris, France
▪Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
▪Zurich, Switzerland
▪Penrose, New Zealand
▪The United States, from Wenatchee, Washington to Fenton, Missouri, to West Henrietta, New York, and hundreds of spots in between—large and small. Welcome to you all.

Wenatchee, my home town (funny I should mention that), is The Apple Capital of the World and the Buckle of the Power Belt of the Northwest. The masthead of The Wenatchee World has made that clear since long before I began my career in journalism launching copies of the newspaper onto subscribers’ porches. I will be visiting Wenatchee tomorrow. The occasion is the annual Wenatchee Jazz Workshop, an annual event that brings student players together with a faculty of world-class musicians. I have been asked to speak preceding a concert featuring the Jeff Hamilton Trio with Tamir Hendelman and Cristof Luty, trombonist Bruce Paulsen, tenor saxophonist Tom Peterson, trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos, and the Wenatchee Big Band. The kids are in good hands. I’m looking forward to hearing them and their visiting teachers.