Daph and I were working for the same small British tour company years and years ago here on the beautiful island of Crete That company went broke (not our fault) so we picked olives and got married. since then we have been running our own small tour company www.akrotirivillas.com and we spend most of our time trying not to go broke (close thing) however The most rewarding part of our lifestyle is gaining an absolute treasure of friends (mostly from the UK and The USA) that return to spend their vacation with us plus the new friends that find us here on the Akrotiri peninsular of Crete.
Our love of music means we often have a local singer/ guitarist at our pool bar, and a few years ago we invited some of our favourite singer/songwriters to come over to stay and play. We were staggered when the first to accept was Kevin Montgomery who I had met in Edinburgh when he was opening for Emmylou Harris . Kevin has returned every year and in 2006 he brought all the way from Texas, Tommy Allsup that wonderful guitar legend for a week of guitar workshop, songwriting and fun. We named it "Songs in the Sun" and was so much fun that we did it again in 2007 and 2008 with Kevin, Tommy, Danny White and Dale Dorman providing a magical rocking week. This years "SITS" will be June 16 - 23. book early!!
We have been truly blessed with the great musicians we have had visit us and we look forward so much to welcoming back this year Michael Weston King with Lou Dalgliesh and Alan Cook, Nashvilles lovely Toni Catlin, and Dean Owens who was also on that Emmylou bill and this year has released a fantastic new album (Whisky Hearts).
We are hearing from more and more exciting artists that want to "Stay and Play" Just wish we could fit them all in... R&D.www.akrotirivillas.com ..
