a taste of the future?

maybe some of you are pondering the question, "if this girl is so in love with rock stars and bands, why isn't she just in a band?" okay, maybe you're not pondering that question but i'm going to answer it anyway....i was in a band! it consisted of myself (electric violin, bgv), my sister (guitar), one of my roommates (drums) and another friend of ours (lead vox, bells). chick bands rock. we played a grand total of 3 times in front of people and recorded 4 songs. yeah, we were a pretty big deal.
gig #1- roommate's moms' 40th birthday party. we did a snow patrol cover, everyone sang along quietly. which was nice since when we played our original stuff they only clapped politely when we were finished. we ate cake.
gig #2- super small festival in a super small town. we ate pizza "backstage" in the church basement where the festival was being held. a couple of wonderful people came and watched our set. my violin kept going out of tune....grr. we felt like rockstars.
gig #3- played on tv for a telethon called jingle bells. we wrote our own christmas tune. i played bass (i don't even play bass) and we all wore matching hand-knit scarves. i'm really bad at knitting and my scarf wasn't finished so i had to safety pin it together. the drums were broken and propped up with hymnals. the sister had 4 day old hair that was standing on end. my mom, dad, and brother came to sit in the live audience. if that doesn't say rock star, i don't know what does.

our band. plus a toddler.

needless to say, we disbanded. our lead singer moved to denver and we weren't so certain we were that great anyway. we may not have played any more shows but the nervous excitement of playing for a crowd was embedded deep within my bones and is just itching to get out....this summer it may just have that chance. stay tuned!
xo