What we were doing in India

Several months ago I got a phone call from my very good friend, Catherine. We went to high school together and were more or less inseparable during those years. Since then, we've kept in touch off and on - it's the kind of friendship you can pick right up with after a long lapse of time and feel like only days have passed. Catherine told me that her youngest sister, Emily, was getting married and that the groom, Akshay, was from Mumbai. They were going to have a traditional Indian wedding in Udaipur but Emily also wanted to have a western ceremony with western music, and would I be interested in going to India and playing for them?

Well, gee, would I?!!

Once we knew we were going, Larry suggested trying to find a gig there. There's Scottish dancing in Japan, he reasoned, so maybe there is also Scottish dancing in India. So we googled "Scottish dancing in India" and came up with a contact in Chennai (Madras). We emailed and they wrote back right away and we started making plans. Several ideas were discussed and plans were made and changed many times. We ended up with six concerts booked in city clubs in and around Chennai, with some time off for us to explore. Perfect!

It took many emails and phone calls to work out all of the details and I can't even begin to express our thanks to all of our friends in India who helped us. We had an amazing time there, and felt so welcome and so much at home wherever we went. I hope that they will come visit us here.

We can't wait to go back!


Gopal, Larry, Nalini, Eden, and Weena
at the Boat Club







Sai and Radha









Larry and Girish