First full day in Jerusalem

Brad & Joachim playing in the mine.

Entrance to the salt mine

   Before I get to Jerusalem, here are a couple of photos of Joachim and Brad playing jazz in a salt mine 450 beneath the surface in Poland near Krakow.  The acoustics were great and so was the music.  They had fun and so did the audience.
   After an intermission midway through the two hour concert, they called five people on stage: four kids and an adult.  Each was to play one note on the piano, their contribution to an original composition.  This done, and the volunteers seated, Joachim and Brad proceeded to play, to invent, a jazzy tune using those five notes, and a few others.  The audience was delighted.  I was p impressed, with the music and with the idea.          
  After the concert, we were treated to a delicious meal at a terrific restaurant that is part of the salt mine complex.  Joachim and Brad were guests because they had played the concert.  Beata, Joachim's wife, was a guest because she had helped arrange the concert.  I was a guest because I was the roady: I carried the CDs.
   Nice gig, you know what I mean?
   On to Palestine.