Bluegrass Jamboree Tour Blog - Sunday December 6th

We have our first show under our belts…. Hurrah! We played in lovely venue called ‘Franz K’ last night in Reutlingen and although we were all a little nervous we had a great time and seemed to go down well! We also met some very nice people in the audience who came to say hello at the merchandise booth. Steve did a wonderful job on bass (it was his first ever show with us) and really is an all round great guy as well as an awesome bass player! Our set is 30 minutes long every night and we have been trying to throw in as much new material as possible in preparation for the new album. Carl and Beverly played a brilliant set to open the evening and then the SCR tore it up with the closing set. But without a doubt, the highlight of the evening for us Toy Hizzels was the finale when all three bands got on stage and closed with four songs, plus an encore! Playing and singing with such talented musicians is such an honour… Of course we played some ol’ favourites for the audience to join in on including Monroe’s ‘I’ll Stay Around’, which we sang, ‘Cluck Old Hen’ and ‘Will the Circle be Unbroken’. For our encore the Rangers raced through ‘Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms’, which we all had fun trying to keep up with, although Sophia and dad played killer solos! The night was a triumph and we enjoyed some beers afterwards even if Sophia and Mike were told at 3.30 am to stop playing guitar and to go to bed by the hotel porter.

So it was another early start for us all this morning as we have a six-hour drive to our next show in Bonn. Today is St. Nicholas day and so everyone in the hotel had a bag of chocolate biscuits left on their hotel door…. What a treat! So far we have all been enjoying amazing catering and food in general, so we are well fed and watered (mainly with German beer)…. At this rate we will be sure to have our stomachs nice and stretched for Christmas and New Year!