I am honored to announce that "Todo Buenos Aires" from Ten Thousand Leaves won Runner-up in the Instrumental Category by the International Acoustic Music Awards for their 2007 Contest.

Here we are playing it at the Boulder Theater in January.

Here are a couple videos from the Expedition Quartet at the Boulder Theater last week.


New Wagon

And here is the end to a Brazilian choro called Nao Me Toques.

The Expedition Quartet is off to New York City to partake in the Arts Presenters Conference as part of the Northern Realms Showcase.

I was inspired by Dave Douglas's recent blog about his musical year. In 2007 I was fortunate enough to have some fantastic opportunities to both perform and jam with some inspirational musicians and amazing people like Greg Schochet, Ryan Drickey, Eric Thorin, Matt Flinner, Noam Pikelny, Chris Thile, Bryan Sutton, Chris Eldridge, Chris Pandolfi and the Stringdusters, Adam Aijala and Yonder Mountain String Band,

Check out this tiny thing! It is a Beansprout 5-string banjo uke. And this is the old tune Sunflower Dance