]]> http://www.alexnelsonmusic.com/2010/02/30a-songwriters-festival-video/feed/ 0 http://www.alexnelsonmusic.com/2010/01/30a-songwriters-festival-day-4/ http://www.alexnelsonmusic.com/2010/01/30a-songwriters-festival-day-4/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:51:34 +0000 nelsone http://www.alexnelsonmusic.com/?p=700 So on this day, I woke up a little late.  The night before we were out watching some really amazing people and then during the night I was working on some video editing.  So that made for a really

hotel courtyard

late bed time.  I believe it was 4:30am when I finally laid down to try to get some sleep.

It was a overcast day and finally rolled out of the room around 11am.  Some friends that had come up from Gainesville to attend the festival (who are obsessed with the Indigo Girls) were already in line at that show.  I had gotten a txt from them around 8am that they were in the line already.  I was hoping that I would be able to make it to the show but having woke up late, I had some things I wanted to get done.  As a result of the Indigo Girls show, some of the events were postponed and this ended up working in my favor.

Central Square Records

One of the things that I wanted to do was to get to Central Square Records and have the guys film an intro to their store for my ‘are we there yet?’ project.   So we headed over the store, hoping that there wouldn’t be too many people there so that they would have the time to do it.  And… they did!  There were people there however as Louise Mosrie was just finishing up her in-store there, but the guys still made some time.  I’m hoping to post what they did soon.

After that, it was a walk around the town and trying to decide what to eat.  While we were getting some outside shots of the Central Square building we ran into the sound guy from Bud & Aly’s from the previous day.  Since everything was pushed back for the Indigo Girls show, he was waiting in Seaside for things to get back on schedule.  He couldn’t make it down to the IG show because he was driving a large shipping truck so we just told him to hang with us.

We ended up at a nice restaurant right next to the record/book shop.  I can’t recall the name.  Mostly because my tooth, which had started to bother me the night before, was really killing me.  Needless to say, I worked through the pain and ate my lunch.  The highlight?  The sound guy telling our waiter that he was serving a ‘platinum selling recording artist.’

After lunch it was back to the room for some string changing and warm ups.  I had no idea where the time went, but it seemed to me like the day was flying by.  Well, waking up late couldn’t have helped.  I thought I was going to have to rush, but we received word that the IG show was being delayed a little bit.  From what I understood the show was being held at a stage on the beach.  I was just imagining it being super cold and perhaps windy and wet.

So then, with new strings on it was time to head to the venue.  Packed the guitars into the car and headed out.  The venue was Caliza at Aly’s Beach which was where we saw Matthew, Susanna, Amy and Shawn the night before.  This venue was also right across the street from where the Indigo Girls were playing.  The parking situation was crazy.  Lines and lines of parked cars.  Luckily, we were able to park near the venue entrance.

Once there, we were able to listen to the last few songs of the IG show while we let the sound engineer for this show to warm up and setup some additional equipment.  This show was with Bob

Corley, Effron White, and Blake Guthrie.  Once the Indigo Girl’s show was over, people started pouring in over to our venue.  It filled up rather nicely. The host for the night was Kevin Boyle whom I had met at my show on Friday night.  All in all, this was a great show. It was a little cold and I think you will see in the video that I’m rubbing my hands together a lot.  But it was great.

After the show I stood around the merch table and met some of the people that came out. It was great to see people who had seen me from some of the previous appearances I had done.  It meant a lot that they took the time to come back out to see me.  I’m super appreciative of this.  I think this is a little better than selling things because it reaffirms for me that the feeling that I am doing what I think, what I feel,  I should be doing with my life.  Performing. Playing music. Is right.  I’m making a connection.  (don’t get me wrong, I like to pay my bills too!)

Once things settled down at the merch table I started to pack things up. This was my last performance for the festival (this was the last night) and I wanted to head over to see Carmel Mikol and Cody Copeland play.  I got distracted on the way out because the guy who wrote “people are crazy” was up on stage.  So I watched a little bit of that before heading out.

Carmel and Cody were at the Rosemary Beach Town Hall.  We were lucky enough that on our way in we ran into Mr. Troy Evans.  On the phone, of course. This is how I remember him for most of the weekend.  HA!  Kidding.

The Town Hall was an amazing indoor venue.  Cody and Carmel blew my mind.  They were performing alongside Ryan Parker and Michelle Luchese.  An amazing round of performances.  As with a lot of the performances at the festival, I wish it could have gone longer.  Troy, Christy and  myself had a great time.

Matthew Sweet

After that we left Cody and Carmel to deal with the swarm of new fans and headed over to see Matthew Sweet.  That would be our last show to attend for the night.

went back to room. packed and watched psych. got ready for leaving next day.  bummed it’s over.