Shanghai - Day 10

More shopping. Is this blog getting boring???? We went back to the Textile Market to pick up the clothes we ordered. Everything has turned out wonderfully. So wonderfully, we all ordered MORE stuff. One can never have too many clothes made of fine silk and satin! John even found nike sneakers for the 3 kids. After a quick spending spree that put smiles on a few faces of store owners, we left for our 2nd rehearsal with the big band. These guys are all such professionals. And for classical players they are swinging just fine! There are a few rough spots every now and then, but it will be great performing with them in the big concert hall on Sunday. Now, we just need an audience for this 2000 seat theatre and we'll all be happy. There has been quite a lot of advertising for the concert, but for a concert being billed as jazz in a concert hall that has the Vienna Philharmonic waiting to play in it, it probably needed a lot more to persuade people to come and see what this "jazz" is all about. We have done 1 press conference and that's it. I assumed we'd do a TV chat show or radio show with an interpreter, but it has just been that one media call. After the rehearsal, our agent, Michael suggested dinner but I was still full from lunch so I went back to the hotel for an early night.