Introducing Chris Griffiths

Randolph College, formerly known as Randolph Macon College for women, is completely opposite of where I went to school.

They have a HUGE gorgeous campus whereas Berklee had a huge city surrounding it. And the ratio of girls to guys is pretty outstandingly women!

We played their Welcome concert this evening - we did a big original set of my tunes first, they had a big dance party on our break, and then we continued to dance party with a big long party set afterwards! It was really fun.

We played this crazy outdoor amphitheater with lots of levels to use for the stage - we were all on different levels of the stage and moved more up and down than we did side to side today :) It was a nice little change from the norm. It was Chris Griffiths' first show with us as an official member of the band! He filled in for us in Put-In-Bay, and now he is taking Tim's place for us on the road for the rest of the year. Tim is involved in a band that has some big exciting things in the works, but I'm not sure how much I can talk about. :) But we are all really excited for him right now, even though we were sad to let him go!!! Chris is yet ANOTHER Berklee guy (3 bass players in a row!) and one of our good friends for years now. We are REALLY happy to have him with us right now! And he is the KING of putting songs into other songs. He was the one who suggested (way back when) "Hey, you should put "Enter Sandman" in the middle of "Devil Went Down To Georgia"! That one has been with us ever since!

Here's MAB - the Board that put the event together: They were so sweet and helpful!


My awesome 2-Steppers! They would circle the entire dancefloor of hundreds on the outskirts with their two-step!





Peace. Love. Fiddle.
~natalie

Bates College

We played at Bates College tonight in Lewiston, Maine!

Ummm... the snow here is RIDICULOUS. I saw a car that was almost completely buried. It is piled up taller than me on every street. I just can't imagine living like this! I mean, I LOVE LOVE LOVE snow. But, that isn't really fair. I have never had to shovel a sidewalk. So I have a very pure picture of snow... For me - a flake of snow meant NO SCHOOL!!! growing up. Actually the THREAT of a flake of snow meant NO SCHOOL! so you know.... snow = pure happiness

The show was great tonight. A lot of students came out in the 3 degree weather (I'm sure the free chai tea and yummy cookies didn't hurt anything!) There were a couple of girls that started 2-stepping during "And Then Some" which REALLY impressed me. There wasn't a dance floor... but they just adjusted and kicked off their shoes. It was great. : )
The student paper did a great write-up for us too!

Bates News Article

And I have to say a big thanks to Meg Crocker for posting videos and pics from the evening!!! I lost my uploader thingy... so I can't get pics off my camera until we hit up a Best Buy!!! But Meg posted lots of pics on facebook -



She had them all up by the time the guys and I got done watching Lost in the hotel! Speaking of... Good Lord! That show is just bananas. I really need to go back and watch all the previous episodes because it's getting to the point where I can't remember half the stuff that's happened. Lost is so addictive. Actually, the last time we were in a Hilton Garden watching Lost - it was our first time in Hilton Head, SC. I remember that so well. We barely made it to the hotel in time to watch it on tv. We've given up on that notion... television, that is.... it's streaming online for us kiddos these days.

We head to Bristol, Rhode Island tomorrow. But it's only 3.5 hours away!!!! We get to sleep in!!!! I am waaaaaayy excited about that. Well... except that it is already 3:30...

yeah... I'm going to bed. Here's hoping for a Best Buy run tomorrow. And maybe a Red Robin? Mmmmm... food... NO! SLEEP!

k.

peace, love, fiddle faddle