Saturday found Kristen and I joining Jillian Matundan, Eli Lev, and a whole passel of singer/songwriters celebrating the solstice and the belated release of Jillian’s latest album. It was a horror of a drive, a chaotic setup, and a weight on our minds – but the SHOW – the show was Loverly. I got to sit in with Jillian on a number of tunes, Kristen got to break out her steel drums, we got to eat the freakin’ awesome hot Nashville chicken sandwiches for which Earp’s Ordinary ought be better known, and generally had a good time.
The stress that Heather’s been under, being sick and with the ongoing fundraiser for her album meant that there’d been a lot of PERIPHERAL stress running up to the show, and the stress that Kristen’s been under with her parents’ moves (her mom moving from Connecticut to New Jersey this week, her dad moving from Georgia to Maryland NEXT month) have simply percolated into the very weave of our Lives and prepping for this show with all of it’s moving parts has been very, very low on our list of priorities.
Fortunately, moving all sorts of disparate moving parts is kinda my forte and though I hadn’t really volunteered, I found myself doing a fair amount of stage management which made those moving parts FUNCTION. A huge part of the grit in those moving parts was a sound engineer who was going to be two hours later than our soundcheck had been initially scheduled, so OUR parts kinda needed to go off without a hitch.
It didn’t, but it was close enough and good times were absolutely had!
