The weekend right after Joe and Shantel's wedding was the Evansville Suzuki Workshop (2 trips to Indiana back-to-back!). We traveled up to the workshop on Friday afternoon, and got there in time to meet the rest of the crew from Nashville for dinner.
This is always a fun weekend for the Suzuki studio kids as we travel to Evansville, stay in a great Marriott hotel with a beautiful pool (not the postage stamp variety common these days), have a full day of classes and great teaching / activities and lots of great fellowship and food with the studio group. ("Think" lots of dessert too, thanks Jeff!) Also, this year, most of the kids that went from our teacher's studio were the teens - they had a lot of fun together!
Lunch on Saturday at Maxine's Cafe' and Bakery - great food at this place!
Michael playing during the end of day "play down". This is a very well known activity of all Suzuki Workshops and/or Institutes. The kids play from a repertoire of pieces, starting with the most advanced down to the beginner pieces; adding more and more kids as the pieces get easier. The last pieces to be played are always the twinkle variations.
It's always impressive to see the group size at the end of the play down, and this is actually not everyone yet! A couple more rows of younger children are still to play.
The Harpeth Suzuki Studio children from Nashville; with one of the workshop teachers, Gabriel Bolkosky (standing in back, behind Miss K), and their teacher (standing in back, behind Mr. M). Gabriel Bolkosky gave a recital for all of the children attending, his playing really inspired the kids.
