Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Delta College brings Bay City native Patrick Yandall home for night of music and memories

yandall.JPGPatrick Yandall

A picture of contemporary jazz guitarist Patrick Yandall hangs on the wall at Bay City's Water Front Deli and Market, and owner Greg Schultz has a story to go with it. He and Yandall grew up together, playing in a band, and Yandall was so talented, he said, that he decided then and there that he wasn't going to make music a career. "Greg is far too modest," Yandall said, laughing, in a phone call from his home in San Diego. "I remember that band, and he was good." But Schultz isn't the only one singing his classmate's praises these days. Bay City musician Larry Hammond filmed Yandall's last few concerts at Bay City's State Theatre, "and it came out so nice," Yandall said. "It sounded great and he made it look really awesome, even better than some I've seen done in Los Angeles."

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