When Cuba Became Home: Living Through the Pandemic in Havana
I moved to Havana in 2019, married my wife, and lived through the first months of COVID in Cuba. This is how the country treated me when life got hard.
Category Personal Blog Posts
How Studying Percussion in Cuba Changed the Way I Hear Music
How years of studying and listening to Cuban percussion changed the way I hear clave, syncopation, triplets, rhythmic layering and the drum set.
What 500 Ringling Bros. Shows Taught Me as a Drummer
What I learned about charts, click tracks, SPD-SX cues, recovery and endurance while playing more than 500 Ringling Bros. arena shows.
Kauai, Tourism, and the Way We Travel
I’m writing this at the airport in Kauai after a family trip that was supposed to be mostly about getting away for a few days. Kauai is beautiful. We had a great time together. But I also realized pretty quickly…
I got married! Some new things happening: A new Patreon, Travel domain, and my album is almost done
It has been a while since I’ve posted on my personal blog, but I am hoping to change that. I have been super busy with a few things that I hope to share more about soon. For now, here is…
How Art, Music, and Culture are making positive changes in Colombia.
Depending on where you come from, you may think many different things about Colombia (The country.) In the American mind we seem to think of things like drugs, gorillas, and Pablo Escobar. In fact, these things are what the Colombians…
Music and Travel VLOG
I have been absolutely terrible at updating my BLOG, but that all changes now… As some of you have know I have been very busy building my cultural travel agencies HavanaMusicTours.com and MusicalGetaways.com over the last few years. With Havana…
Definiteness of Purpose – What are we doing?
I keep learning new things and I love it. All of these new things seem to remind me of the wise thoughts presented many years ago by the famous entrepreneur, Andrew Carnegie. His phrase Definiteness of Purpose always struck a beautiful chord…
Inspiring moments
As the Ringling Bros tour comes to a close there are many different feelings and emotions in the air. I am always trying to be the most positive and inspiring person I can be. Sometimes it’s hard, especially since you are…
La Habana, Cuba, New EP, Ringling Bros is closing and I’m moving to Nashville.
This is my first blog post in well over a year, and 2017 seems like a good year to start em’ back up. The new year has played out to be an *interesting year so far. January 2nd-8th, I was able…