Campus Activities Magazine Reader's Choice Awards Issue!!

This month's issue of Campus Activities Magazine just came out! It's so exciting to have a whole spread!!!



To actually READ the article:

Go to www.campusactivitiesmagazine.com

Click on the Magazine on the front page and scroll through until you find the article. It allows you to zoom in to actually read the text. I haven't obtained my actual copy yet, but the online version is good enough for me!

Peace. Love. Fiddle.
~natalie

I WON! I WON!!!

I won in Best Band and Best Performer (the over-all entertainer category). AND Ari won for Best Agency!

What a day. I can't believe I won BOTH awards I was nominated for. The awards are beautiful and HEAVY! These are the APCA awards (The Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities) I got to see so many school and peeps that we have played for recently - it's like a giant reunion of a bunch of my favorite schools! And thank you Augusta State for trying to chant that you love me at the same time... I didn't hear it, but I heard ABOUT it later! AWESOME.

Ari and Me with our awards!


Ari and Me with Eric Lambert, the Executive Director of APCA


"Bill Clinton" and me


"Bill Clinton" and "George Bush" singing a duo in the bar where everyone hangs out after the awards ceremony. I really wanted to show "George Bush" a picture of me and the real President Bush... but it turns out talking to faux "Bush" seems as difficult as speaking to the real one :)


Peace. Love. Fiddle.
~natalie

Atlanta-Bound

So I'm wrapping up another few days at home to head back out on the road. Tomorrow, however... is very different!

I am driving to Atlanta, picking up James at the Atlanta airport, and then we are headed to the APCA National Conference. But not to perform!!! :)

I was invited to the awards banquet that is taking place tomorrow night because well... the awesome nominations we received this year!!! We are nominated for Best Band and Best Performer. I still can't believe it. And I can't believe that we are actually able to attend. I have been nominated in other categories in previous years, but I have never been able to attend the awards banquet because of our schedule on the road. We just happened to have this week blocked off for me to write!!! I am pretty excited about going to see everyone that I have worked with over the last year that attends APCA. It becomes such a big family; the agents, the students, the artists... And these conferences are actually some of the only times I get to spend time with my own agent, Ari. That's always a good time. :) Oh, Ari.

And Ari was actually nominated for Best Agency!!! So really, we are all just stoked about the recognition. The students and people involved in campus activities are the ones that vote on these awards.

I also found out that I am nominated in the other college association I work closely with... NACA. I am nominated for Best Female Performer and Best Music in that one. CRAZINESS!!!

Wish me luck!!!

Peace. Love. Fiddle.
~natalie

Campus Activities Magazine Awards, Nashville Show...

It's Sketchy motel night!!!

We called about 15 different places tonight close to Bossier City where we are playing tomorrow and everything is sold out.... so we are in the kind of motel that I usually avoid at all costs. But it's not too bad.... there were black hairs all over the towels in the bathroom... but this is WAY better than having to sleep in the van!

Two bits of GREAT news I have to share before I brave the sheets of this bed. :)


We have our first Nashville show booked in over a year! We are playing at 3rd and Lindsley on March 9. WOOO HOOOO!!! I am PUMPED.


And 2ndly...

We have been nominated for TWO of the highest honors by Campus Activities Magazine this year!!

Best Band
and
Best Performer

The Performer award is the biggie because it includes comedians, musicians, lecturers, singers... any kind of performer.

Student Activities Members at Colleges (the people that hire us, choose us, and put on the events) are the ones that vote for these awards.

So yeah. I am excited!!! It's such an honor to be nominated among the thousands of options these colleges have!

Peace. Love. Fiddle.
~natalie

"A Major Award!!!"

Whoa! My agent just sent me an email that read as follows:

"Natalie Stovall has been nominated in the Best Female Performer category in the annual Campus Activities Magazine Reader’s Choice Awards."


ME?? I bet it was the rice krispie treats! :)

That's pretty awesome! I am so excited to be nominated! You have to be a member of Campus Activities to vote, so if I have performed at your school and you liked us.... then please vote! The voting begins wih the announcements in the January issue of Campus Activities Magazine.

(kudos to anyone who gets the special holiday movie reference in the title)



Peace, Love, Fiddle