In 1997, enticed by the opportunity to play a major Scandinavian festival, the original members of Ten Years After "tested the waters" to see if they enjoyed playing together again. 
  

Wednesday, May 21,1997... Ten Years After played a rousing, triumphant concert in front of a sold-out audience last night in Sao Paulo Brazil. The high energy show included long-time favorites "Hear Me Calling",  "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl",  Slow Blues in 'C'", "Help Me", and an audience  sing-along of "Johnny B. Goode".  Of course, the show ended with Alvin Lee's tour-de-force, "I'm Going Home" and the band encored  with  "Choo Choo Mama" and "Sweet Little Sixteen" 

Friday, May 23, 1997...Porto Alegre, Brazil is home to the next TYA performance, and reports continue to be glowing. The press actively pursues the band and "hits" to the Alvin Lee web site grow to 6,000 per day. 
  
  

Saturday, May 24, 1967...Concert #3 of this brief foray into Brazil may be the best one yet, as nearly 3,000 fans in Belo Horizonte refused to let the band leave the stage, bringing them for for three encores. 
  

Ten Years After continue on to Europe, where they've agreed to play four festivals... 
  

May 31, 1997 The Esbjerg Rockfestival, Esbjerg, Denmark... Ten Years After took the stage to an enthusiastic crowd  of 12,000 at this festival that also featured Peter Green , Bachman Turner Overdrive and Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. The set list for this dynamic show: 

             Rock 'n Roll Music to the World/Hear Me Calling/Help Me/Slow Blues in "C"/Good Morning Little  Schoolgirl/ Love Like a Man/Victim of Circumstance/ Hobbit/Johnny B. Goode/Classical Thing/  I'm Going Home/Choo Choo Mama/  Sweet Little Sixteen/Rip It Up 
  
 

 June 14, 1997 - Rock Festival, Karlshamm Sweden... One more time! TYA headlined over Mick Taylor, Molly Hatchet,  Simon Bolivar and others in their fifth appearance together this year. 6,000 fans got to hear their timeless classics 
  

June 28, 1997 - Helsinki Finland... The Magic Continues! 10,000 lucky fans got to see and hear TYA perform their classics in a concert termed by tour manager John Hembrow as their "best ever". The lengthy, enthusiastic standing  ovation the band received would seem to bear that out!