Check out our new links!

Just got into adding links to our blog! We've got a link to the Hurricane on the Bayou IMAX film (mentioned earlier in our blog). We also have a link to Larry and Krista Lain's blog. Larry and Krista are the Associate Pastor couple, about our age, serving with us here at Baton Rouge Ministry Center. Also, check out the link to WWOZ (famous New Orleans jazz radio station I'm going to tour on Thursday, 5/24/07), and the Steven Spring Foundation.

Steven Spring was a gifted bass player who, if he hadn't passed away in 2002 due to cancer, he would have been offered a job to play with Oakland, CA-based funk group, Tower of Power. His father, Peter Spring, recently moved from Ashland, OR to New Orleans, continuing to tune and repair pianos and distribute instruments to many musicians in New Orleans who lost their instruments in Hurricane Katrina. I heard Peter's story on National Public Radio in May, 2006, and I've been in touch with him ever since. He is now also working with New Orleans school districts to recruit music educators, who are now in great shortage, and help revive music in the schools for the younger generations. I met and hung out with Peter last month, and I hope to go back to his workshop for a jam session before we have to head back up North to Washington state in June.