House of Crazy

Friday night was the big REBIRTH sketch performance at the House of Blues. It was quite surreal performing in a venue that's played host to so many great musical artists. Armed with a keyboard, lapel mic's and killer wit we took to the stage. I can't say that I was overly impressed with our performance on Friday. It was a difficult venue to perform sketch but I am so glad that we did it. I learned so much about the process and now we have a great show we can perform elsewhere.

The best part of the night was the crowd of friends and family that came to support us. Half my office attended as well as other people who are so loving and supporting of me. We had more fans than any band that performed that night. And we needed them! The bar scene can be an unfriendly place to bare your artist soul.

It really is a miracle that this performance happened at all. We found ourselves on the street corner by Ashley's apartment warming up in the cold air. Jason was frantically teaching Devin how to play our songs on the keyboard while we rehearsed our lyrics. I'm surprised we didn't make any money from pedestrians passing us while we played. After racing to the House of Blues and hoping to make it in time to get the mic's hooked up and ready they showed us to the "rehearsal area." This "rehearsal area" happened to be a stairwell behind the kitchen. We crammed into a corner and tried to remember our tops & bottoms while servers and tech people ran up and down, in and out of the stairwell. It was too chaotic to really get nervous.

It was a crazy night but one that I will remember forever. Sure makes you appreciate those smaller theater houses that respect the artists on stage. Would I do it again? Sure, why not!?