Maine Maritime Academy

Wooo Hoo!!! Maine Maritime Academy :)

1st of all - GORGEOUS up here. Wish we could stay...

2nd - they know how to put on a show!

The kids from NESCOM that we worked with at Husson University were running sound again. :) It was so good to see them! When we were loading our stuff up onto the stage, they were playing music through the giant speakers... and all of a sudden... I hear US! They had a live recording of the show from Husson :) It was so fun.


Meg Allison was hosting the show. We played with her last year at Virginia Wesleyan (which we're playing again on Friday). Meg was on Nashville Star and she is fantastic! She is an incredible songwriter and singer. I was excited to hear her play live again. We had her cd in heavy rotation in the Suburban last year! To listen to her music click here: Meg Allsion
This was us backstage during Hot Day at the Zoo's set.


Hot Day at the Zoo is a bluegrass band from Boston. They were all great players. They had a fun, high energy set. If you are a bluegrass fan, you should definitely check them out! Hot Day At The Zoo



This was a very professionally run show. I was extremely impressed with the students and their attention to detail. The catering was fantastic! Yummm.... I wish I had more right now.

Right after this picture was taken, one of the students pushed Miguel around on that wheelie thingy... :)

Nate was our escort around campus. He REALLY took care of us!!! THANK YOU NATE!



This was my front row man! He was right up front and sang along and played air fiddle and guitar with us all night! I LOVED him! And everyone applauded when I hugged him after the show. AWESOME.



Hank's mom came!!! One of our really good friends, Henry, went to school with James and me at Berklee. I haven't seen enough of that guy over the past few years. But his mom came to the show!! And she's a drummer. How awesome is that?!!?! Awww man... and I just realized that in the shuffle I didn't get a picture with her :( BUT let me tell you more about Hank. He's in a band called Apache Stone that is based out of New York. I really love their music. Their lead singer is in the show Rescue Me with Denis Leary which is just a cool little fact.




My new friend Wade. I LOVED his shirt!



These 3 were at our Husson show. They had a copy of that show and said they jammed out to it the whole way to Castine today! :) And they had me sign it. SO cool. Rachael, Rachael, and Jake!



They had on-campus housing for us! It reminded me of staying on an army base. It had the same vibe to the room that bases usually do. They gave us keys to 6 different rooms and told us to take our pick! Not gonna lie... that was pretty cool. The rooms were great this afternoon to get ready in... but we don't get to enjoy them tonight. :( We play in Providence tomorrow at noon, and we have to load in by 10am.... so tonight is an all-night drive. We are an hour into the drive and watching 30 Rock :) it's about 2am already.... James is a champion!!! But luckily, we havent' had to do too many of these lately. So it isn't nearly as difficult as when there are LOTS of overnight drives!

We'll have time to sleep tomorrow after the show :) We thankfully we have the day off Thursday to drive to Norfolk.

Happy Tax Day!

Peace. Love. Fiddle.
~natalie