Better now

Was out in the world today.....

Classes & gym...

I feel a lot better....

I finished watching Precious and I have to say, it was not as depressing to me as I feel everyone made it out to be. I actually found parts of it uplifting. Here is a girl who seemed to be overcoming her upbringing and surroundings....raising her kids & stuff.... I really liked the movie....I'm just sayin...I've seen some depressing movies.....Revolutionary Road is damn depressing in my opinion.

Anyway, here's to you Precious!

Tonsilitis

I have tonsilitis.

Home resting.

Thats all

;-)

Living Room

Tonight I got to play at Living Room in NYC through my friend Todd's fundraiser for his dance company, Wobble Dance.

It was a great night of music. I played a solo set, and then afterward, checked out Adam Tressler & Astoria Blvd. at Rockwood Music Hall.

Shrine show + appointments + Inception

Had an Awesome show at Shrine on Thursday.

Good turnout, good vibes, good built-in crowd. Haha they don't play around with the lights. As soon as I started, it was strobes and smoke machine lol....but alot of fun. I pretty much played keys the whole time, and was joined by Iakov, Jordan, and Jeffrey. I think we sounded great. I did a few covers, including Mariah Carey "Make it Happen," which went well, had the audience singing along at a few points, and even had some friends come up on stage to sing, including Christopher Cox, a semifinalist along with me for Making the Band. He just moved to NY and wow, he sounded amazing! Such a fun show.

Here's some pictures of Jeffrey, Iakov, and Jordan, when we were on the train on the way to the gig. I love these guys!

On Friday, I had some good appointments - long overdue dental appt. (only 1 cavity, I'll take it!), therapy, and a good meeting with Jamie Salka from Story Pirates. He emphasized improving my live show and having a gimmick, or hook, for the audience, so I've been brainstorming on what that could be. 

I went back to Shrine Friday night to check out Geoff Earley, who was in town from LA. 

Today I saw a good friend Stephanie Jaggers who I hadn't seen in a while. We went to see Inception, which was awesome! And then had some Japanese food. Yum!!

Social Networking

ANXIETY....

LOL, the theme of today.

I was at the New Music Seminar pretty much all day, and while the seminars were great, and I did meet a few people and do some connecting, I was overthinking, and wishing I was better at networking! It can be tough when you go to something like that by yourself, because introducing yourself is like a cold call, and wow, it's so scary!!!!!!! Not gonna lie!!!!! And the pressure of knowing there are so many important people there that would be good to meet!

I'm still grateful for the experience though, and learned alot.

Show tomorrow in Harlem! woo-hoo!

BOOM

Slept in a lot later than I had hoped, but at least I got a full night's sleep for once. Went to the New Music Seminar in the afternoon and got some good advice and talked to a few people.

Then had dinner with the awesome Jenn Mundia, old friend from Berklee who was in town from North Carolina, as well as the lovely Andrea Setaro and a few others.

Met up with a friend in BK and watched "Up in the Air," which was very good.

That's all, over & out!!!!

New Music Seminar

Today was LONGGGGG........

Full morning of kids music class....

Audition for Hairspray at Paper Mill...where I got chopped....lol....

Gym....

Opening night of New Music Seminar.

I got a free pass to this 3 day music seminar....lots of panels and discussions on music business plus performances.

Tonight was comedy by Margaret Cho...awesome as always....talked alot about her pu*%y, & sex...
also comedy by Rob Cantrell, who was hilarious!!

Musical performances, including Naughty by Nature!! (AWESOME!) as well as a new hip-hop artist Mickey Factz, whose set I really enjoyed.

Kat DeLuna performed as well with a bunch of young dancers....Not trying to hate, but wasn't very impressed with her performance. Thought the choreography was sloppy and she didn't really seem to command the audience, though I do like some of her songs, and she has pretty good energy. I do have to say, it was a tough crowd - very skeptical industry folk. 

It was a really fun night though, and I look forward to 2 more days of the seminar!

Here I go

Big week ahead.

Had a nice time at the Shenk family reunion this past weekend, connecting with cousins, aunts and uncles, spending quality time with nephews...playing volleyball, capture the flag....swimming...eating sushi.....

We even had a little concert on Saturday night where I played some of my songs. A bunch of my cousins and some aunts and uncles picked up copies of the CD.

This week I am attending the New Music Seminar & also getting ready for my show on Thursday at Shrine . Here I go!!!!

Family Reunion here I come

Had a good meeting with Janet & Nate, who will be working on some bookings for me.

Was writing a little bit, came up with a new chorus called "Relief," or "It's such a relief" that I'm diggin, and still working on a song called "Leak."

Had an awesome Bikram class earlier.

Tomorrow (or later today that is) I will be going to PA for an extended Shenk family reunion, which I'm really looking forward to.

Over & out.

Love Jones

Woo-hoo!!!

Went to a great show tonight called Love Jones NYC at the Greenhouse, a showcase featuring lots of amazing singers, great house band, and good energy! Joey "J-Harris" Fleming is the ringleader and creator of the night, and I think they have performances every couple months.

WOWOWOWOOW.......

Kimberly Nichole
Melissa Musique
Yummy Bingham
Brian Slade (Tonex)
Jayms Madison
Danni Ai
Vassi

to name a FEW.....they were all pretty incredible!!! My favorite of the night was Melissa Musique...she did a NASTY RUDE cover of Summertime.....it was too good!!!!!!

At the end, they let some singers come up and sing to their Love Jones theme song, so I took the mic and did my thing. It was great!! Met some awesome people and saw some friends, and handed out some flyers, and it was all good!!!

Grateful....