12-31-2007: New years at Ashoka restaurent, Canton, MI

We spinned at too many events this year so, decided to cool it and take december off. So, we blocked our calendar out and gave a NO to all the requests for december gigs. A client saw DJ Vinny playing dhol at one of the events and requested us to just accent his New year's party with live dhol. Since it was just for an hour, we decided to go for it.

Ashoka restaurent is in Canton, MI. They do have another branch in Troy too, but the New year's party was at the Canton location. We set out to meet our close friends in Ann Arbor, ate a chinese buffet, which was surprisingly desserted on a New years eve. Started off for the New year's party at around 10:30PM.

The roads were clean, and we got there in 15 min, from Ann Arbor, MI. The party was already ripping the floor, DJ Keshav was spinning foot thumping tracks. Vinny breezed in with his dhol and we kick started some bhangra. Since the room was smaller than most banquet halls, Vinny started playing without the Mic and realized soon that he will need to plug in.

He plugged into the Mic and folks went crazy for "Punjabi touch" with live dhol. Vinny rocked the night with his dhol, not to mention, cut his finger in the excitement as well. We took some of our music with us, which was probably a good thing as Vinny could play for some of the very popular bhangra tunes. Vinny was flocked and some of them danced around the dhol. It was a lot of fun. We did a count down mix at 12.

Oh, snow has something to do with our DJing, every time. Just in an hour between 12AM to 1AM, we were dumped with 6 inches of snow. After the party, we drove back to our friends place in Ann Arbor and stayed there overnight, chatted until 5 in the morning. When we came back, this is how our driveway looked !