Northern Quest Casino

5 minutes away from the Spokane airport in Washington is the Northern Quest Casino. On November 5, we played there for the first time with Sheena Easton opening up for Joan Rivers.

This is a great place, nice hotel and the showroom that we played in had great acoustics which made our soundcheck and the show sound very good.

We did a scaled down version of our normal show. Sheena's show is usually about an hour and a half but this time we were doing 30 minutes and Joan Rivers was doing an hour. The whole show with Joan Rivers ended up being an hour and a half.

Sheena's show's are very consistent, the only thing that was different this particular time is I caught a cold on the Wednesday before leaving for Spokane. I had a cough that lingered and so I had to do the performance with a cold. Any singer knows that when you have a cold, there are certain notes that you just can't hit, so I had to do some adjusting with my melodies on the spot.

Of course Sheena and the band noticed but the audience didn't have anything to compare it to, so they enjoyed the 2 duets that we performed, which were, "We've Got Tonight", and a medley of Burt Bacharach hits.

My next performance will be on the 26th of November with SWITCH, SWV and Lenny Williams at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Culver City and then after that I leave on the 28th of November for a few shows in Japan with Sheena Easton for about a week.

This was our first time at the Northern Quest Casino, but I do hope they have us back, it was a great place to hang, even if only for a short time.

Until Next Time - Phillip