Aug. 8th, 2009

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Hey, off to Woodinville this morning - then I'm going to go see whether Edmonds will let me play there for a while. I wrote asking and never heard back, but that's sadly kind of typical for these things, and sometimes means it's not okay, and sometimes means, 'why are you even asking?' And there's no way to know until you show up in person. What... fun?
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Played Woodinville for a while; pretty nice day, and for Woodinville, a big crowd - most of that had to do with a wedding scheduled at another part of the site for later in the day, and a bunch of the wedding crowd showing up early. But hey, whatever - it's much more fun to play a busy market than an empty one. The market manager, Grant, asked if I was working on a CD, and I assured him that I was, and we got into a discussion with the two of us and the nice lady who runs the kettlecorn stand (and who gave me kettlecorn ^_^ ) about how my radio experience has meant NOTHING to recording. Well, except how to coil cables. That carries over.

Bothell yesterday wasn't any fun at all - it felt like half the market was missing. (Honestly, I think around 40% of vendors were no-shows, given the empty slots.) Most of the time, I was playing to empty space, and since everything was odd I sang most of the songs I played, which is good practice. One of the vendors who was there - and across from the stage tent - said I was carrying pretty well as far as she was concerned, and I even sang the scary things like "Where is your Heaven?" which she liked.

Then this afternoon, after Woodinville, I drove over to Edmonds for their downtown market. I'd never been to Edmonds before, for whatever reason - it reminds me a lot of White Rock, in a good way, complete with RBC branch about where you'd find it in White Rock, which was just odd. But really nice. I like White Rock, and I liked what I've seen so far of Edmonds - nice, busy, neat downtown, 'way more density than you'd expect for a town that small, and really nice for it. I didn't go looking for the beach, but maybe I will next time. I enjoyed playing there - it's a huge and very busy market - so I think I'll be back a few times the rest of the summer. And I should try some of the other Snohomish County markets while I'm at it, like I should've been doing already.
solarbird: (music)
I played a bodged-together version of "Getting Away With It" at both Edmonds and Woodinville today. I really need an ending for this damn thing. Plus there's a G7 chord that's totally not supposed to be a G7 chord. I just have to figure it out.

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