The Venue - After the Show

New Year's Eve was incredible! I had a blast singing at The Venue and also getting to hear Waking Vegas for their first show! They rocked!

So part of the purpose of this blog is to share the in's and out's of what I experienced, and to give anyone that wasn't there a taste of what they missed!

Preparation began early in the day... my hair of course. But overall getting ready was pretty relaxed. I did do a last minute rehearsal for Matt & Julian in the afternoon and ended up switching one of my songs. Julian went down for a late nap at 3:30 so he would be well rested and able to come hear me sing. That actually worked out very well. I was surprised! So I got there and the first like 5 people I talked to commented on my shoes (not at how cute they were, but rather at how skinny the heel was). There was a part of the stage that has an inch-wide crack down the middle and I think I was making some of the gentleman quite nervous! lol I considered removing them or moving the mike stand but I thought "no, these are awesome heels and I look and feel awesome in them so I'm gonna pay attention and rock it out!" and I did :) 

The night went off with few hitches. I was told they would introduce me, but apparently missed that part so everyone was waiting for me to appear for like a whole minute and I was patiently waiting backstage... Clueless as usual ;) So after rushing out on stage I started my first song, "Beautiful", a little out of breath but got it under control before the good parts. I stopped between songs to shamelessly plug my next appearance at the Venue (Jan 30th-don't miss it!) and then continued on with "Since You've Been Gone" as my second and final song. That went down beautifully except for the musical interlude. During rehearsal I was trying out some different things with choreography and (let me say here that I am a singer, not a dancer!) so I needed to do something rather than nothing. I was trying this head-shake-hair-fling move and it felt really stupid at first. But I thought, "If I don't at least try it then I'm a big chicken with bad stage presence to boot." I figured I owed it to myself to try and if it's stupid then I'll hear about it and I'll never do it again! So I tried it... and it was stupid... and I promise I won't do it again! :D But hey, I give myself props for stepping out of the box, right! 

I wanted to mention one more part of the night that stood out. During Waking Vegas' last song Julian got a second wind and started crawling up towards the stage. He had earplugs in so don't freak out that my 17 month old was at a rock concert. Anyways, he was "dancing" as crawling babies do. It was so funny! He started doing this head-bang and rocking back and forth and would clap his hands after every sing. It was awesome. He was rockin' it out in his little Skeleton sweatshirt too :) 

Last comments... I do have pictures and video of the concert that I was post as soon as possible. The USB cord for my camera has not been working properly so I will try to get those up asap. 

Love you!