If you’ve never been to Salida, Colorado, by all means, go. Salida is a small, artsy, friendly southern Colorado city that’s surrounded by extraordinary natural beauty — mountains, a river, canyons crying out for tourists to traverse them on zip lines while screaming, “WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!”
My class today in the gym at the Boys and Girls Club of Salida, Colorado, was big and booming and satisfyingly exhausting for all involved.
In the evening Sand Family sorta-cousins Larry and Jody hosted us at a friendly potluck and gave us the pleasure of singing with all their friends. Other than our three kiddo band members there weren’t kids in the crowd, so after our set I presented an All Around This World program especially for grown-ups. These well-traveled audience members shouted names of countries and I sang songs that originated from all those places. Most asked for music from countries they had visited or wanted to visit, though others, fully within legitimate rules of engagement, tried to stump me by suggesting places they thought to be the trickiest, like Antarctica. Did that work? NO WAY! (Do you seriously think I would throw a grown-up sing-out-everywhere party without knowing a song from Antarctica…?)
