Great news, Alex Hand joining us on the 15th. Alex graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno with a degree in jazz guitar performance. While touring in 2014 with Los Angeles singer, Jessica Fichot, Alex performed at the Midwest Gypsy Swing festival and Montreal’s Francofolies festival. He studied traditional Balkan music in Bulgaria in 2015 and has been playing and teaching in the San Francisco area for five years. Alex’s current project explores the common ground of influence between western art music and jazz with folk music of Eastern Europe. The Alex Hand Band released a full length album in 2018 called Traders of the Lost Arts. We are not going to be introducing new songs this month so that we can focus on time keeping, dynamics and sounding more “gypsy” in our solos. Alex’s knowledge and playing style, which is influenced by the music of Eastern Europe, will really help with the authenticity of our solos. We also have a Paul Mehling lined up in October who has agreed to do a master class with us. I will send out the date very soon. We hope to see you on the 15th,