Well, that was new.

So,

Tonight i played and sang at the open mic night at Mongo's bar in Grover Beach. I've been looking for somewhere small and simple to play in front of people for about a week or so now, and this seemed like a good idea, so i signed up. I had a lot of fun, and they let me stay up for five songs, which is two more than normal. So i feel pretty good about that. It was really short notice (i just decided this afternoon that i was even going) but i still had a few friends decide to show up and support me, which was super awesome.

Just fyi, i ended up playin "cannonball", "i will follow you into the dark", "the first day of my life", "butterlifes" (an original), and "the rat within the grain".

It really honestly was a lot of fun, and i was less nervous than i thought i'd be (though i'm sure the beers helped with that) and i feel like i did fairly well. Though, i did play four covers and only one original song...so it's pretty easy to sound good when you're playing incredible songs someone else wrote....

Anyway, here's some pics.

my support crew/cheering section (dad, lindsay, ruth, serena) the sibs came too, but they had to wait outside since it's a bar (which i felt horrible about!)

here's the guy's who host the thing and a random shot of the "venue"

and some of me, yay!

singing...

waiting...

playing...

singing again....

and playing but too cool for the camera.

thanks for reading everybody, hope you liked the blog, i had a ton of fun playing there tonight. who knows, it may even happen again sometime!

thanks,

loren