Caravanserai - The Santana Tribute

News

August 12th 2006

Caravanserai was joined on stage by Andy Vargas, lead singer of Santana for the Watsonville Relay for Life, a Benefit for Cancer research. Watsonville is Andy's hometown, and he and Caravanserai joined together for one performance to help fight this dreaded disease.
An auspicious occasion for the Santana tribute band to be joined onstage by a member of the band they pay tribute to, it was a wonderful performance and a day to remember!

Andy Vargas, lead singer of Santana, and Leo Herrera

December 2006

After being recommended by Paul Reed Smith Guitars,
Hammond Organs, as well as Fuch's Amplifiers,
Caravanserai has had the privilege of being chosen to
perform at NAMM 2007 during the Saturday evening party at the Hilton Hotel.

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January 19-22, 2006

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Leo Herrera and Frank Parise spend time with Karl Perrazo (timbales) and Raul Rekow (congas) of Santana at this year's NAMM show in Anaheim. They stayed in the same hotel together and had breakfast the Friday of the show. Karl and Raul both use Frank's new invention the Wingkey (www.wingkey.net) and Karl helpedpitch the tool for Frank to various drum manufacturers for distrubution. This tool, in a year or so, will be standard issue for ALL drummers everywhere. Karl and Raul were great to hang with and it was nice to make a connection with Santana members for story one -->

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From L - R: Karl Perrazo, Frank Parise, Raul Rekow, and Leo Herrera

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(L - R): Philip Retamoza and Andy Vargas

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(L - R): Phil, Leo, Hank and Andy

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Reaction to story about Andy's new song on latest Santana CD

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After discussing the lyrics to "Adouma", Andy tells Leo and Hank about his song "El Fuego" from the latest Santana CD "All That I Am".

September 17, 2005

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Caravanserai and Santana both performed in Reno, Nevada, about two blocks away from each other. Santana played Reno's new Events Center and Caravanserai played the El Dorado Casino/Hotel. After performing with Santana that night, lead singer Andy Vargas and his friend Philip Retamoza (of the fabulous salsa group Orquesta Gitano), visited Caravanserai at their El Dorado performance. Andy gave Caravanserai a big "thumbs up" and thanked them for performing Santana's music. Caravanserai made fast friends with Andy and look forward to meeting in the future.

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