Beeping Fiddles!

I broke ANOTHER string!!!! This is just getting ridiculous, y'all. We keep playing shows outside in the cold, and I am about to run out of fiddle strings! I am gonna have to overnight some strings to our next location, so that I have enough. Whoa.

We played the 90th Annual South Mississippi Fair tonight. It was really cold outside. When we left Nashville a couple of weeks ago, I didn't exactly pack for cold outdoor shows. We haven't ever really played many of those. But the last few weeks, it seems like that is ALL we've played!

Tonight I wore a scarf with a short sleeve shirt. Yeyeah! Don't be confused. It's the new hotness. :)

Man. Last night... James and I fell asleep sometime after 3am. I was excited because we were gonna get to sleep in since we didn't have to be anywhere until 12:30. I got TONS of work done last night. But then WAKE UP!!!!! 6:45 am (NOT my best time) the smoke alarm in our room starts going off like crazy. It would beep beep beep (BLARING... I mean, rattling my ear drums) and then it would hiccup a bit... then it would stop. We thought it was over. Fooled again. And again. In my hazy, angry, fog I remember James calling down to the front desk and saying, "Is there actually a fire, or are you just messing with us?" The guy on the other end of the phone said, "Excuse me, Sir?" And then BEEEEEEEEEEEP The front desk dude, who i think about fell down from having his ear drum berated, said, "OH MY GOODNESS. Sir, I'll be right up"

He ended up ripping it out of the ceiling because he couldn't get it turned off, and didn't know what else to do. It was a very loud, sleepy, disturbing 30 minutes of my morning. Luckily, I don't remember much that early in the day. :)

But then, Chris I guess accidentally texted me at 8:30... and my text message alarm beeped a bunch of times. THEN a crane started working right outside our window around 9. I kept waking up and thinking, "Goodness! That truck has been backing up FOREVER"

So all that to say... it was a long morning of beeping. But tonight is going to be a short night of sleeping, so I better hop to it. If that smoke alarm goes off now... well... I'm just going to assume that God doesn't want me to sleep tonight. :) (As I look up and see exposed wires just hanging out of the ceiling)

Peace. Love. Beeping Fiddles.

~natalie

I <3 The Rathskeller

Dan McMichael, the owner of the Rathskeller, shared his box of concert memoribilia with us that he has been collecting since he was 8-years-old! I was most impressed with the scarf :)


We found some more gems after taking video - an Eric Clapton pic AND this lovely garter worn by Stevie Nicks!
She was singing Landslide, and Dan handed her a rose, and she motioned for him to stay right there... she put her leg up on the monitor, and then took her garter off and handed it to him! SO COOL!


The show was packed and awesome. Our good friend Carl Pike, who grew up in Indy, but lives in Nashville, opened for us. The crowd was so great tonight - bachelorette parties, birthdays, National "Talk Like a Pirate Day" (And there were some amazing pirates and wenches on the dance floor!) Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, Montgomery Gentry, and Sugarland were all playing a show in downtown Indy, and we were the afterparty! :) It was so fun! Here's just a few of the awesome people we met tonight! (You can see the beautiful stage behind us in the pictures - it's one of my favorites.)





And here's Carl and his Uncle - who was VERY emphatic on buying a T-shirt!


Peace. Love. Fiddle.
~natalie