Our lovely friend Kate Mcgregor is playing a special summer night concert at Casa Colonial next Tuesday 15th July at 8.30pm.

You may have seen her playing the double bass at various venues around Ibiza with the Lost Mountain Orchestra or as a duo with Volker (guitar) on Restaurant Street in Santa Eulalia and elsewhere.

Not only is she a fantastic singer and double bass musician, she also sings vocals on “Sunset People” which is Track 1 on CD3 on the new Cafe Del Mar album (Vol 15).

She also has her own album coming out soon called “Summer Breeze”.

Ibiza in winter is where everybody gets to meet up and spend a good few months with friends when all the distractions of the summer are out of the way. Realistically we dont know many people who prefer the summer to the winter… Tonight the Lost Mountain Orchestra and Miko played down at Guarana. Guarana is the north’s godsend to those nights when you want to go out but don’t want to traipse across the other side of the island - and all this on a sunday night.

As ever, click on any of the images for the larger versions…

Santa Eulalia Beach this sunday afternoon	Lost Mountain Orchestras 2nd Birthday at Guarana’s tonight

Last night there was a big concert in front of the town hall (ayuntamiento). We love the fact that they block off the entire high street just for a couple of bands to play a gig. This was probably LMO’s biggest gig to date supporting the spanish band Celtas Cortos. Its an amazing turnaround after they started a couple of years ago jamming in Daffers bar in the restaurant street - every week they’d get denounced because of “live music” - for them to now be playing “officially” in front of the town hall is fantastic.

We are happy and proud to announce the launch of our new website – ibizaA-Z.com – which has been put together with the latest innovations on the internet.

The launch party will take place at the Brisa de la Mar restaurant on Cala Pada beach next Sunday, April 1st from 2 p.m.
The Lost Mountain Orchestra will be providing the live music and the restaurant serving the cooked food to your table on the beach, if you like…

The website is completely revolutionary, in that the navigation system works entirely on Google maps, making it multi-lingual.

The plan is to take the everyday ‘A-Z’ ~ (yellow pages) to the next logical level, so that it actually shows you on a map where the front door of the place is, that you’re seeking. The next step is to take you through the front door and give you a virtual tour – but one step at a time, eh? …

Amongst the many new things that it can already do: it can, for example, plot bus routes telling you what time the next bus passes your stop (and if you miss that one it’ll tell you the time of the one after that!).

Many thanks in anticipation, we look forward to seeing you at the party.

Ibiza A-Z.com

P.S. If you do plan to come, and wish to enjoy a meal with your music please call Nicole, who is arranging the bookings for the restaurant, in order to reserve a table – as they may have to arrange to cater for more as demand has already exceeded our expectations.
Her phone number is 636 417 724.

There aren’t too many things you’d rather do than sit on a beach in march and listen to friends play live music while chatting to everyone else you know….

Ibiza in the off-season, when direct flights are as rare as hobby horse do dos, is a time to enjoy a lonely walk along a deserted beach, where the only footprints are likely to be your own.
And if this is your dream, you would have been heartbroken if you had chanced upon the beach of Cala Pada this afternoon.

The Brisa de la Mar restaurant employed the services of the Lost Mountain Orchestra, for no particularly good reason, and were booked to capacity days before the gig. Fortunately, it’s hard to fence off a beach here, as all are a public right of way, so even those of us too slow or arrogant to book got to see the show.

The band comprise two vocalists from the land of the valleys and male voice choirs. However their names are Mal and Katy – Katy is the one wielding the double bass. Charles, on the fiddle, hails from the New York Philharmonic, and recently took up the harmonica. Volker, the German guitarist is also the accomplished producer and brains behind the experiment. Their performance was superb, as ever, and they well deserve their noisy and numerous regular following. It’s little wonder that island restaurants are queuing up to book them…

Their encore was slightly compromised by the removal of Alister (who runs the very successful Friday night party – Empire – at the local night club, Guarana) to take a King Canute photo opportunity whilst asleep in a chair…

But everybody left smiling to muse upon another quiet afternoon in Ibiza…