Or perhaps Day zero? It’s Friday morning or Thursday night. Depends on how you look at it. Woke up early this morning around 6am and started the drive up to Santa Rosa Beach to the 1st Annual 30A Songwriters Festival. The festival officially starts tomorrow but today the organizers are holding a private party for the performers. A little get together to celebrate the start of the festival. Tomorrow evening will be the ‘official’ kick-off party which will be open to those who were able to buy tickets. The festival sold out a few days prior to today.
Tonight I met several of the artists that I’ll be performing with over the weekend including Bob Corley, Kailey Billings, Carmel Mikol, K.C. Clifford, Cody Copeland as well as many of the event’s coordinators. So many people so many names. Some pretty big names here as well. Headliners include Matthew Sweet, Susanna Hoffs, Shawn Mullins, Rodney Crowell, Jeffery Steele and the Indigo Girls. I got to meet Emily Saliers tonight at the party. Super nice.
It was a great night. I haven’t heard anyone play yet aside from what I’ve heard on the myspaces and such, but just from meeting them I have a good feeling things are going to be really great. The event is SUPER ORGANIZED. Amazing.
I arrived in the afternoon and proceeded to check in. Everything went smooth. The accommodations they provided were amazing and the area was gorgeous. Santa Rosa Beach is located in Florida’s panhandle. It’s got a super soft, super white sand on the beaches. Just amazing. Anyway, just checking in tonight. Gotta start getting ready for tomorrow. Show starts at 8:30 pm over at Stinky’s Fish Camp. I’ll be collected some video to be posted later when I get some time to go through it all. In the mean time, here are some photos. The motel had a courtyard with restrooms. I liked the way they labelled them “men” and “women.”
