Friday night Duke and I went to a concert at the The Mountain Winery in Saratoga. The Mountain Winery is my favorite place for a concert. It has a relatively small seating area and beautiful setting under the stars with the winery in the background. Whenever we go to a concert there we always have a picnic first in the parking lot overlooking the Santa Clara Valley. If you haven’t experienced a concert at the Mountain Winery you should definitely make a point of going there when you are in the San Francisco Bay area.
We saw Stanley Clarke – Bela Fleck – Jean-Luc Ponty. who are doing a summer concert tour called Trio. All three musicians were exceptional. Bassist Stanley Clarke makes the bass into a solo instrument. Jazz
violinist Jean-Luc Ponty made the violin sound like about three or four instruments playing at one time and banjo player Bela Fleck made the banjo seem like an instrument made for Jazz. When they played together the strength and power of the music took your breath away. This was one of the best concerts I have been to in a long time.
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