Category:2009

• Sting and his family spend the new year in Beirut, from there they'll visit Damascus, Syria and meet Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma al-Assad (Sting: Message In A Book / photos online)

• Andy Summers and photographer Lawrence Impey visited Peru and Bolivia in January 2009. They stayed at the Inkaterra hotel in Chusco to see Macchu Picchu and the Titicaca Lake before heading to Bolivia (Potosi, La Paz)

this was probably around Jan. 15 (first mentioned Jan. 20, then on Feb 5 it was 3 weeks ago...)

• Andy also visited Fez, Morocco (photo caption)

• Andy spent 10 days in Tokyo in April - as mentioned in a QTV interview in June 2009 - he went to the Cherry Blossom Festival (this started on March 28, 2009) bought an Elvis Presley record, a trumpet, a mask and a guitar at a fair in Ueno Park (http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/music-on-photography-andy-summers/) and photographed a girl with the record a few days later

• Stewart was in Istanbul recording eastern music for Ben Hur Live at ITU MIAM Studios where he was also interviewed for Martin at the Crossroads during a break (broadcast July 31)

• Nov. 2009 - Sacred Grove jam https://www.facebook.com/john.marossy/media_set?set=a.103593899730617&type=1