TIMO TOLKKI: South American Crusade

Its been amazing 3 weeks around meeting lots of fans, doing seminars that people really seem to enjoy. 3 weeks left and when I finally get back home I think I have been travelling close to 100 000km in total.

 

This time I have gone to the whole Brazil, places I have never been and it has been truly amazing and eye opening experience. Done a lot of press: tv, radio and magazines, actually more than I ever did with Strato. Things are looking really good.

 

We played a "fun gig"at Sao Paulo with Bruno and Gus, who is with me during the Brazilian seminars with 2 guest musicians. It was a lot of fun played my old and new songs. They seem to work very well in a live situation. Nobody was asking for Black Diamond, but I wrote over 200 songs in Strato, so we will play in the future for sure a nice collection of fresh Strato songs that people are not bored to hear. There is a lot to pick from. I think playing the same set list for seven years is a bit boring;)

 

We are getting ready with Gus, Bruno and Magnus to start working on the new RR album, but first we might play some gigs in Jan/Feb. More of that later.

 

My masterclass is being booked for Europe for March/April and for USA/Canada for June/July. It is really taking off very well. I might film it and make a DVD.

 

So all in all, I am having lots of fun here and its good to see that people havent forgotten about me at all:) In fact, the response have been...overwhelming.

Thank you all for the amazing support and see you around.

 

Cheers, Timo