Jean-Paul De Roover
References to The Price Is Right aside, the Pipes gifted me something truly wonderful today for my birthday. It’s a new tour-mobile! In the next coming months I hope to post more little adventures like these, so stay tuned!
Click on the photo to see it larger! Photos by the talented Shannon Lepere.
Now that I’m back in the swing of things, I figured I’d share some of the photos that Shannon Lepere took while with me on the last US tour, as well as some of my iPhone “photography”. This includes the trek from Thunder Bay to Victoria, BC, then south to Santa Cruz, CA, back up to Portland, OR, then east to Duluth, MN before coming back home. Of course you can always look through my instagram (@jeanpaulderoover) feed to find some other random gems.
Scroll towards the end for some shots from the Y2KX+2 International Live Looping Festival in Santa Cruz, CA.
A big thank you to everyone I met on this leg of the tour, and the random friends we made while you let us sleep on your floors. Cheers, until we meet again in the Fall!
Live at the CB Booking Fest in Victoria, BC (Lindsey Blaine)
Greg Rekus representing Canada in Napa, CA
Live at the ArtLab in Fort Collins, CO (Shannon Lepere)
Live at Side Door Lounge in Omaha, NE (Shannon Lepere)
Alicia of The Love Technicians at the Side Door Lounge in Omaha, NE (Shannon Lepere)
Live at the NorthWest LoopFest in Portland, OR (Shannon Lepere)
Live at the NorthWest LoopFest in Portland, OR (Shannon Lepere)
Live at The Greater Good in Sonora, CA (Shannon Lepere)
Jumping near Big Sur, CA (Shannon Lepere)
Shannon jumping near Big Sur, CA
Admiring the view near Big Sur, CA (Shannon Lepere)
Watching over the shore near Wolf Point, CA
Live at Tycoon’s in Duluth, MN (Shannon Lepere)
Jellyfish display in the Monterey Aquarium, CA (Shannon Lepere)
Belated birthday dinner in San Francisco
Y2KX+2 LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL: Santa Cruz, CA
With over 55 artists from 7 different countries, I certainly felt at home and in my element performing at this festival for the first time.
Jean-Paul De Roover (Canada)
Stanosaur (US) – didn’t actually use a looping device, but had three separate amps that created feedback loops. Had to leave the building it was so loud!
Whoolilicious (US) – think Cuban/Latin dance music with a looper and a live drummer
Bill Walker (US) & Mandoman (Japan) – a definite highlight! Bill plays guitar and Mandoman plays mandolin, but Mandoman built both instruments, so this was the first time that these two ‘brother’ instruments performed together!
Krispen Hartung & Aaron Davis (US) – Krispen runs the improvised music festival in Boise, ID, but this was live looping dance music to the extreme.
Laurie Amat & Rick Walker (US) – Rick runs the whole festival every year, so for the final performance he and Laurie did an experimental performance, incorporating not one but two vibrators (used musically) into the performance!
Monday nights can be kind of tough. However, Ottawa was great at the Rainbow. I’ve been there several times on a Monday now, but this was by far the best. Joined by my old friend Jesse Nelson (originally from Terrace Bay), we ran an early show to a great crowd.
When I first met Jesse, he was one of the Small Town Skaters in Terrace Bay, and responsible for bringing in bands through town, as well as raising money to get the skate park built. I had no idea he even played guitar. Man, he can play AND sing! Kind of in a way that reminds me of punk rock that’s been redone acoustic. He’s also an awesome photographer! Check out his website here.
His friend Anthony was also there, taking some sweet photos. You can check out his Flickr by clicking here.
