Yesterday we welcomed our esteemed visitors Professor 'Stinky' Pete and his fragrant supervisor Jeannine who struggled through wind, rain and Easyjet but arrived safely. El Stinko has been unwell but succeeded in getting past the swine flu police.
After a very tasty meal of chicken and fennel in white wine, we wandered up to the Municipal Theatre for a concert by The Cantadores of Zenon. The line-up of the band was unusual; accordion (played by Zenon himself), two spanish guitars, tenor sax, violin, piano and bouzouki. Percussion was provided by some fat bloke with a pigtail, sitting on a box which he played like it was a set of bongos. And he had some congas as well. The singing was more or less twenty seven part unison, and they did a selection of Greek and Mariachi songs. So far so good, but the show also featured some ethnic dancing and I am bound to say that if I never see another performance of traditional Cypriot dancing it will be too soon. The novelty of watching some bloke balancing glasses on his head has worn off.
those sitting on a box percussion things are called cajons. they are really cool but really hard to record.
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