Road Weary

What a month. The West Coast Iakovos Kolanian Classical Guitar Tour ended last week and we had our fair shares of ups and downs. I am considering posting a long winded journal on this as our tour went from city to city. The brief version is that Iakovos is a tremendous professional to work with that made the artist/label relationship part of the deal really work. His opening concert was a story and a half. He was scheduled to take the stage at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, CA at 8pm and due to severe delays and snow-ins on his connecting flight from Paris (from Greece), Iakovos arrived at the venue at 7:50PM with not having slept in 24 hours. He put on a great show for only 56 paid ticket patrons plus a few more comp tickets I gave out. Folks, that San Francisco show was about my highest and lowest point of my music profession career thus far. It was the first time I met Iakovos after working on this project for over 2 years and here he was finally performing. But, the San Francisco community really let me down big time by not showing. 70 people in the audience was embarrasing for this kind of talent. Fresno had close to 300 people and LA had about 200 on average a night. 70 people in San Francisco! You have to be kidding me!

So, I will start with the whole blog very soon detailing the trip including the behind the scenes stuff. From the near cancellation of the San Fran show to the unexpected and emotional Fresno show to the two Stepan Partamian organized shows in Hollywood. There will be some good stuff I hope for readers. Here are some pictures to enjoy. All pictures taken by Kevork Imirzian.