Playing with André Matos (guitar) and Thomas Morgan (bass), at The Bar Next Door, last night, was really a great experience. Not only Thomas Morgan is an incredible musician, extremely focused on what is happening on the moment, but also the combination of him and André is a very special one. It makes my life so easy. The music flows very naturally, whether we’re playing an original of mine, a standard or a brazilian tune. We had a great audience, too.
Among the audience were many Japanese families who came to New York to join anti- nuclear rallies and demonstrations, for the United Nations conference on reviewing the performance of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that started yesterday. The United States is expected to unveil long classified statistics about the total size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. On Sunday thousands of anti-nuclear activists rallied in New York calling for an abolition of nuclear weapons, from Times Square towards the United Nations building.
It was striking to meet these people at my gig. Living in New York is great because you always feel you’re at the center of the world, but sometimes it’s hard to know about everything that takes place, and to be connected with other things besides music. These people have travelled all the way from Japan to New York, just to demonstrate against nuclear weapons. There were 25.000 people rallying on Sunday. Some Hiroshima survivors are in town and demonstrated too. Isn’t this incredible?
Here’s a link to a Japanese newspaper that covered the event.
Anti Nuclear Demonstrators in New York City
