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

7 shows in 5 days

Today?

We have been driving to Texas! We found a Jimmy Johns in Jackson, Tn which made us all very happy. That makes 3 days in a row for me + Jimmy Johns. Yesterday, I had Jimmy Johns DELIVERED! That's the best :) The +avocado is KEY to any sandwich at JJ's.

This week we have 7 shows in 5 days. Whoa. That's craziness. But the GOOD kind of craziness. I am excited. We have this week jam-packed. Tomorrow we have an afternoon show at Texas A&M in Commerce, TX. And then afterwards we are heading over to Frozen Fire Films in Dallas to do a photo shoot!!! FINALLY! I am getting new photos done :) Plus on Friday, we open for the LOS LONELY BOYS. YAY! That is one of our two-fer days :) We play two shows on Wed & Fri.

Whoa. Hootie just laid down on the floor... and I was REALLY confused. Turns out, he's doing stretches for his back. But I thought he was just opting NOT to sleep in the bed! The other day when we arrived in Providence at 7am, we had 1 room with 1 King size bed.... We had to leave at 9 so we weren't gonna get to sleep for all that long.... but we all wanted to nap a bit. Hootie and Miguel immediately took the floor :( Made me feel bad. And James just left! The man who had been driving the ENTIRE night.... just disappeared... we all thought he would come back and get in bed, so the guys just stayed on the floor. But nope. James went and got caffeinated and walked around downtown Providence. He figured sleeping for an hour and a half was much worse than not sleeping at all. I completely understand, but.... I just wanted to sleep. So I ended up sleeping in that big ole bed by myself. I would have slept just as well on the floor though, too. We were all pretty out of it!

Thankfully, by the time we got back from our show, we were all able to check into our separate rooms. And whew. That was one of the best night's of sleep I had in a looong while.

I saw this: in the bin at the gas station today!!!
(For anyone who may not know... "If I Run To You Now" is played in this movie.)

It made m so happy! I think it is the first time I have seen it without looking for it!


We've been watching the Sopranos in the Suburban... and we only have 1 1/2 episodes left in the whole series. I can't wait to see what happens!!! I've heard mixed reviews about the ending.... either you HATE it or you LOVE it... apparently there's very few "in betweens". I'm sure I'll have more to say on that later. But I just love how well written that show is. I NEVER thought I would like it. I figured it was all about killing and beatin people up. But there's SO much character development that I can tolerate the violence. I mean, it IS the mafia... so there violence has to be there... but it's not ABOUT the violence. I have to look away.... A LOT... but the rest of it... well, it's so good.

See you tomorrow from Texas!

Peace, Love, Fiddle,
~natalie