A Show in the Mountains

It’s not often that we perform a show that requires a commute in either a four-wheel drive Land Rover or on a ski lift! The Rifugio le Rocce on the Corno Alle Scale in Italy’s Apennine Mountains is a restaurant and inn that attracts skiers in the winter and hikers in the summer, and we were invited to open a show there for boogie boogie pianist Mitch Woods. We enjoyed a meal of tortellini and salumi before the show, which was sponsored by the Piquadro leather goods company. The ride up the mountain was so bumpy that Scott decided to take the ski lift down. In the photo are Mitch Woods, Johnette and Scott, and Porretta Soul Festival artistic director Graziano Uliani.