The Brontes at The Kennedy Center

 Monday evening, The Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage series featured a familiar show.....The Brontes.   Yup, that same show from this past summer's Fringe festival.  It definitely has turned into the little show that could. 

It was a long day as we had to load-in, tech-in and rehearse as much of the show as time would allow, all before the performance began at 6pm.  I felt pretty calm through all of it until about thirty minutes before curtain, at which time I got a little nervous.  Actually a lot nervous.  The most nervous I've been in my experience with this show.   Usually I only get nerves like that when I'm unsure about something in the show or if I feel unprepared or something.  In this case, it was the fact that I was about to perform at the freakin' Kennedy Center.  A big deal for me.

 

The show was a great success!  We had a big crowd and the performance went really well.  If you'd like to watch the performance, you can check it out HERE.

A day later, I was thinking about things a little.  In my time, I've had the opportunity to perform at a lot of cool places.....

Lincoln Center
Merriweather Post Pavillion
First Mariner Arena

....and now, The Kennedy Center.

Not too bad!

House Of Rock

This first week of 2013 has been pretty crazy.  First there was the whole bronchitis thing.....and while I'm dealing with that turns out that I've got four gigs in four days.  I barely made thru Friday night's show with The Project.  After resting up on Saturday, I hauled out to the House of Rock in White Marsh for a gig with The Understudies on Sunday.  

It was kind of a weird show....a benefit for a friend's family.  The whole thing was a little controversial because the before-mentioned friend is currently serving time in prison for a drunk driving related accident.  Some folks kinda bristled at the whole event and I can't say that I blame them but, regardless of these particular circumstances, I felt comfortable about helping out a friend who had shown me kindness on several occasions when we worked together.  Another weird thing about the show was that our set time was right in the middle of the Ravens playoff game.  Subsequently, not a big crowd.  Thirdly, we had a fill-in guitarist.

In the end, it all turned out ok.   We played pretty well and got a really great response for those in attendance.  Also, they've got good burgers at The House Of Rock!