Tuesday Update

I really really really did plan to update my blog from the road over the past few weeks as I toured the Jefferson County Libraries. But, I got busy, tired, whatever, and just didn't make the time to do it. So far this month I've done about a dozen shows, taught classes, written a few songs, and dealt with the usual family stuff and a little more.

But, mostly, I had fun!!! Doing shows for kids is great!!! I love it! And my three new songs are way fun to do in concert. So, now I have to figure out a way to record them. Which means, of course, that I need to practice, get together a little band, practice with them, and then find the time and money to do it. Which means that I will probably record them by myself in my basement this week. And then, maybe someday in the next year or so, I'll record them for a CD which now has a working list of over ten songs.

My one recent setback (well, actually I've had several setbacks, bad moments, whatever) happened yesterday when I got turned down to perform at a Boulder Songwriters Showcase. They take place once a month and I had finally gotten up the courage to apply for a slot. What helped was I attended the last one and the featured performer (who produced one of my CDs and also does childrens music, but in addition to his adult gigs) pointed me out from the stage and said I should play there. So, that got my hopes up. But, I got a polite email back from the guy who runs it saying that he picks the performers based upon his own personal preferences and he doesn't think kids music fits in with the audience they get. Frankly, I didn't think they had all that big an audience last time, and I could probably bring in a few people that would normally not go to that kind of thing, but, ... I think I'll keep that thought to myself and not put it in an email to him. What I do have incentive to do now though, is record one of my new songs that is "appropriate" for adults and it so happens I wrote it for kids. So, yes, I'm a little pissed and a lot hurt, but hopefully it will wake me up to the fact that the only decent recordings I have are my CDs which are primarily little kids stuff and not a lot of originals. So, I need to get to work on getting good recordings of songs I perform a lot, even if they're not CD ready yet.

So, life as a musician and songwriter goes on and now back to parenthood. Time to pick up a child at school and get her to a dinner theatre rehearsal. She's the real star, I think.