Patty and I played a reunion with Sam Bachicha, Dean and Bev Tellefson, as Synchrony, in Trinidad, CO at the A. R. Mitchell Museum and had the best time you can imagine. I am expecting to get reviews sometime soon from the local papers, but we know what we did.

The people did also. According to a report from one of the fantastic museum ladies, we had about 150 people. Those people gave us 5 separate standing ovations during our two shows. It was wonderful. I know that athletes talk about giving 110% percent during a game. (A percent that I consider impossible.) However, when 5 performers are doing absolutely nothing except giving their very best for every second of a two hour concert, then there is a feeling that can only be achieved by those performers. (And some athletes giving 110%.) To be one of those five was, for me, the most exhilarating event in years.

Did we make mistakes? Yep.
Were we as sharp and tight as we were nearly 40 years ago? Nope.
Did it matter? Not in the least. We had some pretty good ears listening too. A goodly number of people came from Denver to see Synchrony for perhaps the final time. That is a 6 hour round trip and that says a lot.

Sam Bachicha is loved and respected in Trinidad as he is where ever he goes. But his fans saw a side of Sam that hadn't been seen in years. Even his family had never seen him in his 'Elvis' mode. There were people there that had waited over 30 years to finally hear him bring the house down with 'Impossible Dream'.

I have always believed Bev Tellefson to be the funniest person on the planet and she proved it yet again. Bev is actually singing better than she was 40 years ago. She won hearts with her version of 'Desperado'. And she still belts out 'Mecca Flat Blues' better than anyone.

Patty Salam is a phenomenal singer and her renditions of 'Over the Rainbow' and 'God Bless the USA' were as good as it gets. She earned her standing ovations with emotion and lots of class. This was her first time as a member of Synchrony, but it became evident to everyone that she should have always been in the group.

Dean Tellefson never got to be featured, either on drums or voice, but his was the glue that kept us all on track. No other drummer anywhere could have done such a superb job. He also contributed hugely to the vocal harmony during many of the songs.

I managed to get through my arrangement of 'Sound of Music Medley', but it wasn't the songs or how we did them that mattered. What mattered was that for a couple of hours 5 people, no longer young, felt 26 years old again and once again made the magic they used to make almost every night.