While I do love touring - having the opportunity to play each night in front of a new audience, sometimes in places I’ve never been before, and sometimes in places that have become quite familiar in a great way - there are sometimes some drawbacks. For those who think it’s a glamorous lifestyle, here’s an excerpt of an email from Ken Vandermark’s agent in Poland describing some of the travel we’ll be doing next week when we start a two-week tour with his Resonance Project in Poland, Italy, Hungary, and The Ukraine:
“The Lublin concert for Resonance is confirmed for Oct.25…..The only problem with this concert is nearly 12-hours travel from Hungary to Lublin by bus. We’ll have to leave Szekesfehervar so early as about 3am - sorry for that but there was no possibility to find another date. The concert is at 19:00pm.
On Oct.26 we’ll drive by bus to Katowice (about 6 hours) and take the evening flight at 21:20 to Kiev (Ukraine) - arr. 23:50 (Ukrainian time - the flight duration is 1 hour 40 minutes). Sasha will come there with a bus and will drive us to Zaporozhe through the night. We will arrive to Zaporozhe for breakfast in a hotel. Some rest during the day, lunch, rehearsal and the concert at 20:00pm - Oct.27. On Oct.28 after lunch we’ll travel back to Kiev by bus and we’ll take a flight to Katowice at 20:50pm. I will find a hotel/apartments in Katowice or we’ll go directly by bus to Torun and stay two days there - what would be better? We will have to stay with our luggage under 15 kilos per person plus hand luggage….”
Sound like fun? I’ll try to post some updates from the overnight buses…….
