JWY Drumster Patrick Writes In From The Road!!
Posted by Josh Shriber on Tue, Jul 07, 2009 @ 10:16 AM
Patrick Hanlin, JWY's #1 Drum Master is home from his 30 show tour! Check out his "Tour Review."
Hey everyone, I'm Patrick and I've been teaching piano and drums with Jammin with U for about a year now. I also had the great opportunity to play 30 shows in five weeks this past May and June and it was one of the absolute best times of my life. I was with my band KID:NAP:KIN (www.kidnapkin.com) and we traveled with our tour manager Ben Hoffman (or the hoff-man, also known as the Hasslehoff), starting in beautiful Miami Beach, Fl. and ending with a show in Long Island, NY. The band drove as far west as Indianapolis In., and Knoxville Tn (which was one of my favorite shows for sure).
We had many great adventures along the way, which included our culinary adventures w/a mobile propane skillet, some really terrible attempts at horseback riding in Indiana, and midnight canoing/kayaking on Lake Champlain. I also played far and away the best show of my life at a music festival in upstate New York called iMatter (a suicide prevention fest put on by a great local church); by the time we took the stage there were over 3,000 fantastic kids waiting in front of us! It was so fantastic. I just starting back with lessons today, just two days after the band rolled back into town, and I can't believe how much these kids have practiced while I was gone!!! Good job guys and gals, keep kickin out the jams!
Patrick