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Welcome and Benvenuto to all my Lovely Followers around the World,

What a fabulous evening!  On Friday 22nd June we celebrated the 8th Annual Rock Chick Band’s Concert Party in our beautiful Tuscan garden.  We rocked the night away with lots of well know covers including George Harrison, Robert Plant, Mathew’s Southern Comfort, The Stranglers, Traveling’ Wilburys, Phil Lynox, The Pretenders, Cream, Peter Gabriel, Mumford & Sons, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd and Patti Smith.  You would have been hard pressed not to have found a favourite there!  Thank you to Stefano, Lorenzo, Lorenzo and Fillipo, the boys in the band!

Guest performances included our lovely Polish friend Tomek Tryba, who sang the classic Italian song Volare in perfect Italian.

And English buddy John Reilly, who did a stand up comedy song dedicated to me!  Bless him.  Thank you also to John, for teaching me the first steps in playing the acoustic guitar, my fingers really hurt, but it will be worth it!

Also up at the microphone, ten-year old Petra, who wants to be a rock star, sang the ‘ooh’ bits in Robert Plant’s Rainbow, and a great performance that was too!  I also signed her invitation, which unknown to her, gave me just as much pleasure as she enjoyed receiving it!  Lovely girl, I hope she makes it in the big rock scene!

Thank you also to Andrea and his team at Jam Caffe in Certaldo, who provided the buffet.  They bake all their own pastries there and it’s an excellent place for morning coffee or afternoon aperitivi. Find them right next to the station!

Of course, my never ending gratitude for the great support from friends and family in making this one of the best concert parties so far.  And what a cosmopolitan lot we were that included Italians, English, Scots, Americans, Polish, Germans, French and more.  Forgive me if I have not mentioned your country, but thank you to everyone for coming and for your gifts too!  We are already planning the next one, so for you diaries it will be 21st June 2019!

Things seem very quiet now, the house guests have gone and we have returned to the leisurely pace of morning coffee and pastry in the nearby village of Fiano, where we catch up on the local and national newspapers.  We popped over to Montespertoli this morning to watch the world go by, and then to C’era una Volta for lunch.  Ah, life eez good!

Next weekend it’s back to my usual blog, full of local titbits and more national goings on in Tuscany and Italy.  I know, where is the ‘Hunk of the Month’ I promised you?  Well my gorgeous band members should be sufficient for now, but I do have a hunk waiting in line!

Have a great week.  Do visit my website at June’s site

Salute june x

All Fotos J Reilly & P Finnigan.