I think that I must be some kind of freak or something. I mean I'm the only person I know of that wants school to start a good month and a half before the summer is over, I love to go shopping for new school supplies, and to top it off, I just added all of my Christmas music to my iPod . . . I am a strange, strange man.

BRITT 2007

So originally I was planning on going to one concert this year but I ended up going to two in three days! Mandy and I got to go see Chris Botti last year at Britt and had so much fun that we decided to go this year and make Britt an annual event.

On Thursday Chris Botti was back at Britt and Bryan had an extra ticket so that was a real treat. Botti is an exceptional jazz trumpet player and he happens to hail from Corvallis, Oregon. Unfortunately our concert was called off a little early because of the thunder storm that was brewing, though I'm not so sure half the people realized it because they were so tossed. Nothing like the smell of alcohol and B/O to liven up a concert under the stars.


This is Chris Botti and me after the concert. I felt kinda retarded at first but that didn't last too long because it's not every day that you get a photo with a famous musician . . . plus if he becomes a legend like Davis and Armstrong (which I'm sure he will) then I will have a photo with him . . . go me!

The second concert was none other than the CMA Award nominee Josh Turner. Now this guy can sing and I'm pretty sure that if he would have come into the crowd he would have been mauled by every women in the place. Wish he would have stuck around for a meet and great but I'm sure he has somewhere else more important to be than Jacksonville, Oregon.