Pied 3 guys, Played 2 Shows, 1 Day of Awesome

We played 2 shows in Virginia today and they were BOTH at beautiful campuses on a beautiful day, lots of awesome bands, and we worked with WONDERFUL students at both!!!

Some of the awesome things that happened today.


It was the first time anyone ever came up to me in the middle of a show and said "Hey, I love you guys! Will you pie me in the face?"

Yeah...

I pied not 1, not 2, but 3 guys in the face. :)




As a result, I spent the beginning of soundcheck at the second show cleaning pie off my fiddle. :) There was some left on my fingers when I started playing "Devil Went Down To Georgia" oops...

A professor at Lynchburg College gave EXTRA CREDIT to any of his students that came to the show tonight.

Seriously. That happened.

At first I assumed we was a music teacher or something since he was so supportive. But nope. Business of Law. He told me he had been playing videos of mine from Youtube at the first 5 minutes of class for weeks now to promote the show. He saw posters, looked up the music and became a fan.

And to add to Professor Kelbaugh's awesomeness... he's retired from the CIA, and he gave me a CIA pin at the end of the show!!! What an honor. He said that the show touched him and that he wanted to show his appreciation.


Lynchburg College had the most amazing group of hula hoopers I have ever seen. If a "hula hoop" team existed... these girls would ALL be on it. They were doing tricks and flips with hula hoops that I have never seen before. It was quite impressive. I'm pretty decent at hula hooping... but the normal, stale way. I was too intimidated to get out there today!

We had a capella groups open for us at BOTH shows today! Not something that has ever happened before and then it coincidentally happened at BOTH shows. At Longwood.... it was an excellent student group from the school. And then tonight at Lynchburg it was Ball in the House - HANDS DOWN the best a capella group I have ever heard!

We FINALLY met Llyod Dobler Effect (as well as Ball in the House) tonight! They both played the show with us at Lynchburg. It was ARI-FEST 2010! :) We are all 3 with the same agent. And I feel like I know Llyod Dobler Effect because our posters are always hanging next to each other's in venues. And finally today we got to play a show together!!!

Plus, Ohio Avenue, Saving Jane, and Sister Hazel were some of the other bands at Longwood earlier today at the first show! We met Ohio Avenue 2 days ago at NGCSU. :) So cool to see them again. :) We have met such cool people lately! I wish we could spend more time with them, but it's awesome to just continue crossing paths.

Dangit! I don't know what is up with my internet not letting me upload pics lately... :( I keep trying and apparently 3 is my limit tonight. But yet again... as soon as the internet starts working, I'll have pics up on facebook!

Peace. Love. Fiddle.
~natalie