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ABOUT
THE TEAM
THE ROYAL STORY
DAY BY DAY
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DAY 1: TRAINS AND PLANES
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I said goodbye to Jordan, and the next thing I knew, I was on a Europe-bound plane. Yes, it felt incredibly strange to be going alone. No, ...
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DAY 2: BERLIN / ŻARY
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Arrived in Berlin. Met the team at the airport and hopped on a huge blue tour bus with 50 people and an incredible amount of instrument...
DAY 3: ŻARY SQUARE
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Reader, meet Żary. Żary is a town of about 40,000 in southwest Poland, and it was one of the primary places the von Promnitz family liv...
DAY 4: BAD MUSKAU, GERMANY
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Saturday, May 26: loaded up our bus, and headed to the German border: We were asked to participate in a festival in a huge park wit...
DAY 5: WROCLAW
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Looks like "row claw;" sounds like "vrot suave." We played for an all-day festival organized by a group of Polish ...
DAY 6: AUSCHWITZ
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It was as moving to visit Auschwitz as you might imagine. It was a rainy day, and we spend hours walking through the camp in the drizzle. I...
DAY 7: PSZCZYNA (TELEMANN + KORFANTY)
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Looks like a jumble of consonants. Sounds like "psh jin ah." Go figure. We toured an enormous palace that housed the von Pr...
DAY 8: BRODY
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Brody is a tiny little town nestled in the Polish countryside. Our main goal in Brody was to put on an outdoor festival in front of the r...
DAYS 9-11: PUBS, CLUBS, and...HIGHSCHOOLS
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We headed back to Żary for a few days, where we visited high schools in the daytime and each group took turns playing sets in the main loca...
DAY 12: CATHEDRALS
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Still in Żary. Our group split up to participate in Mass at several cathedrals in town. At the morning Masses we attended, David and I play...
DAY 13: POZNAN/WAGROVIEC
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This was a much-needed day off for most of us (the jazz combo drove back into Poznan to play at a jazz club late that night). We traveled s...
DAY 14: GNEIZNO
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An all-day festival in the Gneizno square, not too far from Wagroviec, in the cold and the rain (Who knew that in Poland the weather fluctu...
DAY 15: WAGROVIEC
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We kicked off the morning with a team activity: Turntables 101. Half of our hip hop act, Josh (a.k.a. DJ Essence), gave us all a crash cour...
DAY 16: GNEIZNO / ROYAL BALL
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This was the last day of the trip for me, since I had to leave a day early to make it home in time for a family trip. We played our last fo...
DAY 17: HOME ...and BEYOND
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I headed to the airport with two other team members while the rest of the team traveled back to Żary for one last festival. I was super bum...
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