Last Thursday I had hoped to go down to Geneva and jam at the BAG but circumstances decided otherwise and I ended up at the Café Omega over in the small village of Cortébert with Blaise for a jamming evening of Blues to raise funds for Haiti.
One thing you get living in small villages and towns up here in the Jura Mountains is a certain feeling of emptiness which on a dark frozen snow covered winter night can make the rest of the world seem a figment of the imagination. So it’s always a special thing to leave the void of the outside, the secret filled black windowed houses lit by two or three streetlights that painfully cast their feeble luminosity through the misty air, and enter the overheated people packed room of an open café.
The jam band and musicians behind the event organization were already rocking it out when we got there (picture by Roman Meyer who has a photography studio in the same building) and we soon joined in and even played a few acoustic tunes with Dave who, having also decided to come, had arrived a bit later.
Otherwise the evening was mostly electric blues, jamming the well known standards. It’s always a lot of fun to play the washboard along with a drummer.
More pictures from the evening: http://www.belomega.ch/blues%20for%20haiti.htm.