Wednesday, July 2, 2008 by toni.

I can´t believe it´s almost over—the love, the music, searching for water or bathrooms constantly, etc. I will miss the ladies of the OCHO panties bus (yep, I read OCH pantli, the bus company´s name, wrong when I got here. Big surprise).

To follow up on jozjozjoz´s post about Santa Julia, it was one of the most important things that Vox has ever done. We found out afterward that we are the first adult group to be allowed to visit the girls. Their strength, courage and ability to dream under often unimaginable circumstances was inspiring. Two days later and I am still thinking of them, and of several of them I talked to individually. I think a bunch of folks got a new perspective that day ;). Sharing the stage with the girls was an honor.

And wow, the leaping up standing ovation and demand for an encore weren´t bad either!

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Sunday, June 29, 2008 by toni.

yeah, we sang today, and also we were rained on. not at the same time though.

awesome concert in tepotzolán. the church was painted all in real gold and it was so rococo it was rocococococo cuckoo. if you don’t believe me check out the picture from the previous post. anyway, the concert went really really well and i can’t explain how transformational singing for these audiences is. i love how in both of our concerts, people came in families. children of all ages in the audience. often in the states i don’t feel like children are welcome at ‘classical’ concerts. well these kids are remarkably well-behaved. also, i’m sure allie won’t blog this but she sang her lullaby solo and two abuelas got all teary-eyed. she was great!

on to the rain. we drove for a few hours to get to san miguel de allende. the drive was beautiful, alternating between plains and mountains. lots of green and lots of rain. we are in san miguel now in a hotel with enough room to run around. so, several of us did just that! pouring rain on us as we did cartwheels, explored the property, bothered our vox neighbors, and in general had a great time. i love playing in the rain and thank you to jeni, carly, evi and allie for playing along!

tomorrow is a busy busy day so i’m off to get stuff ready for our last concert tomorrow!

p.s. joz is being bossy and threatened to edit my post if i didn’t say that on the bus we had a special screening of Frida. it was so cool to see the palácio nacionál, teotihuacán (they even climbed the same pyramid we did!) and other places in mexico city.

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